What many horse owners don't understand is often handler, not horse, is causing problem.

That being said, that is first consideration in unscrambling horse's ill behavior.

For instance, a common problem riders have is a horse being spooky. In layman's terms, that means a horse is nervous and afraid something is going to "get him". Thus, whenever horse and owner go for a ride it's not usually a relaxing moment.

As a matter of fact, both horse and rider are on edge.

So if we take premise that rider is causing horse to spook, then we must ask, "How is rider causing this."

An uninformed rider may not be aware that perhaps he is sitting tensely in saddle. Also, maybe he's stiff as a board and has a white-knuckle hold on reins.

Believe it or not, horse can sense and feel this tense. When horse is in habit of feeling it then horse's spookiness is also rider's.

His name was Jesse Beery. Before he was twenty he became a world class horse trainer. He was so well known, there were more people who heard of him than didn't.

Jesse Beery learned how to train horses almost entirely on his own because there were few people who knew how to train a horse.

Beery's parents discouraged horse training as a career but later okay'd his passion. From then on there was no stopping Beery from achieving greatness.

Beery's first inclination to train horses happened when he drove a horse and buggy to a friend's house. As Beery exited buggy horse spooked and ran home. During that long walk home Beery was determined to make his horse stay put.

As he worked with his horse he discovered ways to get a horse to do what he wanted. Although nearly killed in training incidents and laughed at from friends and neighbors, Beery soon became THE authority on horse training.