It's All About What's In Your Heart and How You Use It"

a horse to stand still when fear is mounting and mounting in their heads results in nothing else than wrecks. I consider rearing a wreck ... for the horse. After repeatedly trying to "kiss" and call the filly into her without positive results, the clinician called me in to show how I accomplish the task. At this point my filly is now worked up in a sweat with panic flight round and round the pen. I stepped in; the clinician stepped out. I kissed to the filly. She turned and trotted up to me and stopped. We then backed up, we turned on the forehand, we went forward, we went round on the haunches. She felt safe with me. When I asked her to cirlce around me, she then balked and began to trot off. I gave a soft tug on the lead and told her "easy" and she reared. Reared and went backwards on her hind legs. Got her down, backed her up then asked her to go round again. This time was fine. I stood without moving my feet while she circled round in both directions then halted. I teach my horses to stop and turn to face me. I like horses to face me. I don't like their hind ends towards me. They certainly wouldn't turn a hind end towards an equine leader! Well, clinician didn't like that - said I was wrong. OK. Fine. Not an issue. I stepped out of the round pen and the clinician came back in saying she guessed she just didn't know the cues. Clinician tried doing some more with the filly and finally, in one instance, kicked my filly hard, in the chest. Punishment, you understand. The way "nature" punishes. Just the same as another horse would do. That was enough. I stated that the filly was overwhelmed and I wanted to back up to a more comfortable task and then I'd take her. Thank you.

I was now trying to justify my mouth saying "OK" when asked to do this clinic. I have no idea why my mouth completely disobeyed my better judgement. So now, the justification process begins with, "Well, I guess its better for my filly to have other handlers besides myself and those here. She needs to learn what the "real world" is all about. Yadi, yadi, yadi ... excuses for cowtowing to a more aggressive person when

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