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Podcast: Be Your Best Horsemanship
Episode: How to Handle an Overreactive Horse
Description: If you spend long enough in the horse training business, you will likely encounter some situations throughout your career that put you at risk. Any time a horse develops a severe reactive response—such as flipping over backwards or bucking excessively—your safety, as well as your horse’s safety, is compromised.
An overreactive horse is not untrainable—training it properly will just take more time and patience. Overreactive horses need some confidence and consistency-building activities to focus on. Those horses need to learn trust and respect.
A horse’s overreactive nature wasn’t made overnight, a...