Training Your Foal: Raising a foal from birth to backing (Horses)

Raise a confident and happy horse through sensitive training

Training a foal is no child's play! It can be a fascinating experience, but it requires the correct mixture of horse knowledge and intuitive feeling.

Correct training follows from knowledge of how horses develop physically, mentally, and behaviourally. A horse which has been treated incorrectly as a foal may never be reliable. It may be prone to suspicion and panic reactions throughout its entire life. A well-trained foal is much easier to back, and its first hack will be a less risky undertaking.