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Foal Training Explained: The First Two Years
Mare owners, if you'd like to get your colt or filly started out with a proper foundation, I would suggest the investment of $5.99 in my foal-training course.

 

- Download and print from your home computer
- 5 days, 5 chapters
- Learn at your own pace

 

Take the lunge line several inches below the horse's head and apply light pressure toward your body, let's say two pounds. We want the colt to either turn his head slightly or to relax his neck, whichever comes first. Wait a moment, but drop the lunge line the instant you feel even the slightest relaxation from the horse. If thirty seconds goes by with nothing, try adding a just a little more pressure or maybe another angle, more "up," more to the side, more "cockeyed." If still nothing, you are most definitely looking for too much. When you very first begin, he may only very slightly tip his head, cock an ear or relax for just a millisecond. Release on the smallest of the small gives here and build from there. Release if you think he's thinking of giving. Note: If the horse just happens to look at you as you pick up the lunge line (in effect, "giving" with the turn of his head), drop the line and pet him. Drop the pressure and pet if he gets the right answer for any reason, even by fluke.