With several days past and no headway with Bo in my horse training breaking, I was frustrated and beginning to think nothing would ever work -- until a conversation with my Grandfather changed my life forever.
After sharing my problems with him, he recommended that I look for an old book... he said that if I could find it, my problems would be solved.
My first reaction was to scour the Internet, but to no avail... this was apparently not something that I could just pick up at Amazon...
Next, I went down to the library, thinking that surely I could pick up a copy there. Again, no such luck as they had NO copies of this book anywhere.
I was beginning to think it a lost cause -- considering perhaps bringing in another trainer for the horse training breaking with Bo when I happened upon a vintage bookstore in town.
I figured it couldn't hurt to check it out... and there it was... I had struck gold... in their collection of old and rare books, I found the book with the very long title about training horses...
And no wonder I couldn't find it anywhere else - it was printed way back in the 1800's...
Curious, I began to read...
A couple of hours later when I'd finished the whole thing I realized that I'd stumbled across a book that was EXTREMELY valuable to anyone and everyone who works with horses!
Now you might be asking yourself, "Is this old information really of any use today?"
The answer to that is, "ABSOLUTELY YES!" You see, this book is from a time when the relationship between man and horse was MUCH closer than it is today. A time before the domination of the motorized vehicle.
A time when lives, yours or your loved ones, depended on a good, reliable and well trained horse. Now, a lot of things may have changed since the 1800's but a horse is still a horse and these old horsemen knew them a lot more intimately than we do today.
They had to because lives and livelihoods depended on it! I'd bet that those old timers knew more than most of today's 'experts' put together!
If you work with horses in anyway, especially horse training breaking read more about my findings at Training Wild Horses.
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