Many horse owners don't understand importance and usefulness of horse's eyes while training. That being so, let me share with you some things you may find useful - some you may know...some you may not.

First, there's eye which reveals a little about character of horse you're working with. It may have a kind eye. A kind eye indicates horse will be agreeable to train and will readily respond to your aids while training.

One way to tell if horse is nervous is by noting his eyes. Horses can be very expressive in their looks. And you can tell if a horse is a nervous horse by eyes appearing sort of "worried like."

Obviously, this nervous horse would require more thoughtful handling than would a non-nervous horse.

I have a horse that would get mad after a while of riding. She used to get what I call mad eyes. Her expression was actually a sort of angry expression. Mostly, expression came from her eyes. Here eyes would get red after a while.

Jesse Beery, a famous horse trainer from 1800's, talked a lot about eyes of horse. Even those many years ago he knew about horse's eyes. Beery discovered there were four different disposition types of a horse. Certain characteristics of eyes would tell you much about horse's personality and how much work it would be to train horse.

Berry's classic disposition type 3 was most interesting. Beery said "Where type #2 will allow you to do all work, type 3 will do all work for you. You only need to control its movements."

In all my training experience and many things I've read, I concur with Beery's discovery. The eyes play an enormous role in horse training.

To read more about Beery and his methods, you can go to this web address:

http://www.horsetrainingandtips.com/Jesse_Beery_etips.htm

There is still more to know about horse's eyes.

Here are top three tricks to solve barn sour problem.

Teach your horse that you have control over him. Once your horse gets it in his mind that you can make him do what you want him to do, you have control over him and can thus make him leave barn. One way to get control over him is to use a training technique called doubling. When you double your horse you teach him you can control him.

It doesn’t take long before your horse will know you can control him. Be careful when doubling though. If you do it too much at a time you can over do it. Your horse could get so sensitive to you doing it that he may try to anticipate it. If he sees your hands making slightest movement that looks like you’re about to double him, he may double himself. Thus, just double him four to six times a day on both sides. He’ll quickly learn you have control.

The next thing you can try is this: Make it dang hard to do wrong thing – and make it real easy to do right thing. Here’s what I mean. A while back my horse didn’t want to leave her buddies or barn. We’d get about 100 feet away and she’d turn around and bolt back. She’d stop in front of barn expecting me to get off, remove saddle and tack, and put her back into corrals.