Horse cues

Teaching your horse the proper aids is the difference between simply being a passenger and actively guiding the ride. Basic horse riding cues are the coordinated use of seat, legs, hands, and voice to communicate direction, speed, and balance to a horse. When a horse understands these signals, transitions become predictable, turns become lighter, and …

My niece loves talking to her horse, and she is curious if her horse is learning to understand human words. Her curiosity also has me wondering the same thing, so I decided to research whether horses understand words, and if so, which ones. Horses can understand and remember words with few syllables. However, their understanding …