We knew nothing when we started. Let me save you some trouble: study “natural horsemanship” techniques like Parelli and others teach. Knowing how your horse thinks and views the relationship will make everything more enjoyable and safer for both of you.

Also, if possible your first horse should be broke to ride, preferably by natural horsemanship techniques. Many of ours were rescues and some still are not broke to ride.

All warnings aside, knowing horses has been one of the most enjoyable things in our lives.

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Something about horse just intrigues me.

A sect of my ancestors were famous horse breeder and dealer over 100 years ago. They were wealthy land owner till about my great great grandfather. By that time the family had wasted all their money on opium, all adult within family were addicted, left my great grandfather to work in coal mine by the age of 14. So it’s a personal dream for me to own land again, and know horses.