Imagine A Horse - Agility & Trick Training

Enlightened Trick Training is an excellent vehicle to help to develop the full potential of a horse as either a companion horse or performance horse. Trick Training is about developing a horse’s mind, body and emotions. It helps to bring forth and perfect willing obedience, cooperation, and increases a horse’s learning capacity. Through Trick Training a horse’s attention span is usually expanded and as a bonus, it gives a horse interesting learned behaviors that he can use to help him interact with humans

Imagine A Horse has created a modern methodology for training primarily Trick / Exhibition Horses and Companion Horses. Trick Training looks like a lot of fun and it is, but it is also very serious training that can yield amazing results.

Trick Training can be used with any breed or age of horse. At Red Horse Ranch, training begins soon after imprinting because being a precocial species, horses are neurologically ready to learn soon after birth. The horses that grow up watching other horses perform seem to develop an exceptional ability to learn and to focus. When Trick Training a mature horse, we usually integrate it with saddle training (or upgrading skills) as it can take additional time to develop the habit and desire to “learn how to learn”. Mature horses also must develop muscle memory to match their mental absorption rate which can be very rapid in an intelligent horse.

The Tennessee Walking Horse is bred for versatility and intelligence, and has a propensity for agreeable behavior. They are excellent Trick Horse and Exhibition Horse candidates.

Sue De Laurentis and Allen Pogue jointly founded Imagine A Horse and live near Dripping Springs, Texas. You may contact them at  512-264-0442  or visit their web sites at www.redhorseranch.net and www.imagineahorse.com