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Someone once told me that you must train a horse as if it were a 9-5 job. This statement I decided was false. When you train a horse they need to be rewarded just like a child would be when they were just learning to talk, walk, or crawl. In all honesty, it isn’t the time spent on the horse, but the way you train it. One key element in training a horse is positive reinforcement. This means that every time the horse follows a command that you have been training it correctly, you give it a treat or pet him/her, depending on how well the command was accomplished. This is easier said than done, frustration often takes over more times than none because a horse needs to learn before it can obey, so many forget the positive reinforcement after a few times of failure. Many people overdue themselves as well. Terry Nowacki, a trainer that I once worked for made a wise old, but true statement to me once, “three times