She found a video of a talk given by Dr Andrew McLean on You Tube, during which he suggested that the way to reduce a horse's flight response was to slow it down, or better still, go backwards. She thought She would try this on Posy at the riding club bash today.
It was windy and there was some jumping going on next door, largely hidden by a Leylandii hedge. All of this was guaranteed to upset a horse of Posy's sensibilities. Remembering the words on the video, She only let Posy walk slowly and kept reining back as they went round the arena. Posy said there were probably some scary things going on, but that it was hard to tell when she had to keep going backwards.
She said the whole experiment was very promising and Posy managed a decent test at the end.
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