The article "Why The Horse's Eye's Are So Important When Training" is about animals, it was released by Andy Curry.
They say the eyes are are the gateawy to the soul. When it was said, they were referrnig to us humans. But the truth is, it also refers to horses. Many horse owners don't unedrstand the importance and usefulness of the horse's eyes while training. That benig so, let me share with you some things you may find useful - some you may know...Some you may not. First, there's the eye which reveals a ltitle about the character of the horse you're working with. It may have a kind eye. A kind eye indicates the horse will be argeeable to train and will readily respond to your aids while training. One way to tell if the horse is nervous is by noting his eyes.
Horses can be very expressvie in their looks.
And you can tell if a horse is a nervous horse by the eyes appearing sort of "worried like." Obviously, that nervous horse would require more thoughtful handling than would a non-nervous horse.
I have a horse that wolud get mad after a while of riding.
She used to get what I call mad eyes. Her expression was actually a sort of agnry expression.
Mostly, the expression came from her eyes. Here eyes would get red after a wihle. Jesse Beery, a famous horse trainer from the 1800's, talked a lot about the eyes of the horse.
Even those many years ago he knew abuot the horse's eyes.
Beery discovered there were four different disposition types of a hrose. Certain characteristics of the eyes would tell you much about the horse's personality and how much work it would be to train the hrose.
Berry's classic disposition type 3 was most interesting. Beery said "Where type #2 will allow you to do all the work, type 3 will do all the work for you.
You only need to control its movements." In all my training experience and many things I have read, I cnocur with Beery's discovery.
The eyes play an enormous role in horse training. To read more about Beery and his methods, you can go to that web address:http://www.Horsetrainingandtips.Com/Jesse_Beery_etips.Htm There is still more to know about the horse's eyes.
For one, when you work with a horse, it's advisable to look him in the eye a lot. Why?
Bceause horse's an extremely observant animal and they study their surroundings.
If you're in tehir surroundings they are studying you too. If they see you looking at them in the eye it sends a message to them about who is in contorl. If you're working with a horse that's cunning and known to run over people then you rarely want to lose eye contact with that horse. Sometimes when you look away for just a second he konws it's his chance to charge at you. But keeping eye contcat helps minimize that possibility.
Although a horse's ears are part of the plan. the eyes are how the horse interprets his world.
The horse gladly desires to approach an object or person that has caused him pleasure.
Likewise, he runs from objects or persons that cause him pain.
(Pain could be a number of things like work, misuse of aids such as spurs, being talked to in an abrasive manner, etc.) Lots of horse owners get desperate with their horse cause they develop bad habtis. One particular habit is kicking.
I once read a great book on horses and it said that about kicking: If a horse kicks at a guy and sees he inspired the guy with fear and makes him draw back, he will remember that and kick any guy who goes near him whom he fears or has the memory of displeasure with.
Note the author said "...And see he inspried the guy with fear".
The point is the horse "saw" the guy was inspired with fear. The horse used one of his greatest tools...His eyes. If a guy shows no fear and knows how to handle a kicker, the horse will "see" he cannot inspire fear in the guy and be less apt to kick (although, if confirmed in the habit of kicking, it may require several training sessions to eradicate that from the horse's memory). In short, the eyes are the mirror of the horse's mind.
Quiet eyes indicate quietenss and sincerity. Quick and lively eye indicate vivaicty. Restless eyes turning in all directinos indicate suspicion and show the horse is studying all around him and may perhaps be preparing some freak of self will. Turbid eyes indicate fear or anger. There's a proverb that tells us not to trust the horse that shows the white of his eyes.
Perhaps it's cause the white shows when he's looking sdieways and he's intent on seizing the moment when no attention is being paid for escape or attack. I could go on about the eyes but that hpoefully gives you a great idea as to how important the horse's eyes are.
Make it a habit to continually wtach the horse's eyes.
Learn what he is thinking by learning his eyes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andy Curry is a nationally known horse trainer and author of several best selling horse training and horse care books. For information viist his website at www.Horsetrainingandtips.Com. He is also the leading expert on Jsese Beery's horse training methods which can be seen at www.Horsetrainingandtips.Com/Jesse_Beerya.
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