Today I want to add to the story about Panadero and his Spanish Walk. The last time I had worked with him his Spanish Walk had been very green and he could maybe only do about 25 feet. When I asked him for it three months later, he had mastered it like he was a seasoned horse.

So what I wanted to add was that one of the other reasons he did the Spanish Walk so beautifully was it was something that I could feel in him that day because of the relationship we had developed beforehand. I had asked him to do something else but he did not do it immediately. He was telling me that what he wanted to do something else instead and telepathically I guessed he wanted to do the Spanish Walk.

Sure enough, when I asked him to do it, he just jumped at the opportunity and did it for about 100 feet, which was something he had never done before in his life. A woman who saw this asked me how I had got him to do that. I said simply that he’d told me that he’d wanted to. She asked me how I knew that and this is what I told her.

If you focus on shaping a horse’s behavior and developing the enthusiasm of the horse, you develop the skill of being telepathic because you are both working with the Method instead of forcing something on the horse. You apply the Method around the horse’s behavior and when you do that and give it to him in doses he wants to receive, you develop this telepathic relationship with your horse.

If you think about it, isn’t this how horses are in the wild or even in a paddock? When one horse in the herd senses danger, don’t all the horses turn and run as one? The same goes for shoals of fish or flocks of birds in flight. Don’t you think it would be useful for you to have that same ability with your horse?



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Comment by Deborah Hopkins on June 24, 2010 at 10:36am
After riding one day, I turned the mare out and noticed when she went for a drink that the trough was empty. By the time I filled it up, she had wandered away. I wanted her to drink but she wouldn't come when I called. Meanwhile a young paint had come over to see what I was doing. Didn't she go over and chase the mare over to the water trough. I could hardly believe what I had just witnessed!!
Comment by Jackie Cochran on June 23, 2010 at 11:13am
I find that I get better results with the horses I ride if I MENTALLY give them the space to perform in as well as giving them the room needed with my hands, seat and legs.

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