These timely facts come from Jesse Beery horse training manual. Jesse Beery was a famous horse trainer from 1800's. Interestingly, Beery's training methods are as powerful today as they were when Beery was alive.

Timely Fact #1:

Make your horse your friend, not your slave.

Timely Fact #2:

Almost every wrong act of horse is caused by fear, excitement or mismanagement. One harsh word will increase pulse of a nervous horse ten beats a minute. Hoses know nothing about balking until forced into it by bad management. Any balky horse an be started steady and true in a few minutes. I never found one that I could not teach to start his load in fifteen minutes and usually in three.

Timely Fact #3:

The answer is a resounding Yes!, they are enormously useful.

The horse training expert referred to is named Jesse Beery. Beery was a world famous horse trainer from late 1800's who possessed amazing ability with horses.

Fortunately, Beery's secrets remain after all these years. His information can be found in his book he wrote in late 1800's. However, very few copies of his book exist. It is virtually impossible to find an original - much less one that is readable.

Here is a partial reading from first chapter of Beery's book:

Fear is principal motive which causes colt to resist training. It is natural for him to kick against an unknown object at his heels, to pull his head out of halter as from a trap, and if of a bad disposition, to strike and bite if he does not thoroughly understand you.