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“Since then,” she continued. “I’ve had three other trainers come out, each one highly recommended by people I trusted. The first thing each one did was to go in the pen and chase him around.” She took off the ball cap she was wearing, gathered her shoulder length hair in one hand, put it in a ponytail and stuffed it through the opening in the back of the cap before putting it back on her head. “Now he is so scared of people even I have trouble getting close to him.”

I took the time to explain that I believed this was one of those situations where the people believed they could teach him how to be caught by making him see that running was both difficult and uncomfortable for him. The problem was, in order for that way of training to actually work on any horse, the horse must first be able to think his way through what is happening, while it is happening. In other words, he has to be able to reach a frame of mind that is at least somewhat void of fear. This is an important aspect in training because a fearful mind—in any animal, including humans—is usually unable to reason, and therefore, unable to solve problems.