"Never to lose one's temper with the horse is a good precept and an excellent habit; to lose one's temper is unreasonable and makes one do things one can but afterwards regret. When a horse shows fright of some object and refuses to go near it, one must make him feel that he has nothing to fear, and more especially so if the horse be a high-couraged one; the rider will do well to walk up to such object himself and touch it, subsequently to lead the horse quietly up to it. Those riders who force the horse by the use of the whip will only increase his terror, for he will imagine that the pain he feels is inflicted upon him by the object that frightens him." Xenophon 's Hippike, Treaty on Equitation
Sound advice from 500 years BC!
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Brazillian proverb - He made the horse
The jewel of my childhood - ponies -Nell Gifford
Your horse should be a trusted friend - Xenophon
Praise for thoroughbreds - Dianne Grod
The horse is a very noble creature - Desmond Morris
Make him your FRIEND - Oliveira
stables are the real centre of the household - George Bernard Shaw
Monica Dickens - You and your horse,
Sherlock Holmes - Game of Shadows
Black Elk - A Sky Full of Horses
Seabiscuit - Quotation from the film
Anna Sewell - quote about bad tempers and horses
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