She's using a huge step up trailer and the horse is clearly jazzed...and he's not going in there. There are a lot of comments on Youtube (please go there too) about her "poor horsemanship" - but I think what happened here is that the handler panicked. She wasn't expecting him to act like that and didn't know what to do. She's small, the horse is big, and he could easily have hurt her. Her reaction escalated things.
So, what do you do in this situation? The key is to calm the horse down - and that means calming yourself down first. Anyone who works with horses should learn to slow their breathing and think. It's really vital to do that. Horses can hear your heart rate. If you get scared, a horse will think there is good reason to BE scared...
Hard to deal with that situation, especially with the added anxiety of it getting dark and your horse not wanting to go home...
ReplyDeleteAt least she's not trying to do it on tarmac in the middle of a crowd. Which, yes, I've seen.
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