The horse passion
Thousand of years ago, human becomes tame the horse. In the aim to brekaway to predator and to go hunting, horse and mankind were evolded together. The horse was the man's compagnion during many wars all over the world.
This lasting relationship is possible only thanks to a long work. Human and horse have to forge a relationship based on respect, mutual listening, trust and endearment.
To raise a horse, it is necessary to learn him to make that he didn't make when he was in liberty. It's a difficult work because if you learn him bads conducts or if you learn him some movement, he can become disobedient horse.
The more important thing during the dressage, is learn to your horse to have the human's trust. If this trust isn't respect, so the meetic between human and horse can be dangerous.
To the first horse's step, the trainer doesn't change space where he trains his horse because the animal can be disturbed. Horse and his rider must be only in the manege to horse takes his bookmarks. If he is disturbed in the fifth session, he will be disturbed for ever.
After this stage, we will work horse with a rein. The rein's work is a detachment's work between trainer and horse. The trainer must put his hands and his legs to a precise space to the horse's back. It's normal that the young horse want to go with the help (the help is the man who he is holding the rein) but he must drive him to the path to horse takes his bookmarks.
Finally, horse makes his first step in liberty... but he realises them with a rein. The work must during 30 minutes. The trainer must to stay concentrate to what he does because horse doesn't know turn, move, stop it, set off again, to put on hand, leave gallop on good feet, do movement on next, jump bar on the ground or in the air...
Horse learns all this on his training. But he comes up to that if he has human's trust.
I choose this subjet because I love horses and it's my passion after the dance.
Written by Axelle BRIAND, french pupil.