Next update on the 14th

Hi All
Tim is going away on holiday for a few days so don't despair the blog will resume around the 14th December.
I hope I don't forget all the training in the meantime. Horses of course have a much much better memory than us and forget nothing. As I have mentioned before they can't afford to in the wild. They don't get repeated attempts at learning what is a dangerous situation (they get eaten!) so must learn and memorise situations very efficiently, whereas a mistake by a predator just leads them to going hungry for a day !
Snag is they also memorise undesirable (in our view) responses quickly as  well, which is why complete concentration when working with horses is essential to avoid accidental teaching the wrong thing. No texting on the mobile !!
Imagine how good your memory would be if the cost of forgetting something was to become a lions dinner.