A while back I worked with horse trainerAaron Mills while making horse training videosfor http://www.SuperStarsOfHorseTraining.com

Aaron often used the term "baggage."

By that he meant, if you go to touchyour horse's head does he flinch and move itaway quickly nearly every time?

Baggage.

If you try to saddle him does he moveoff and not let you?

Baggage.

Later I hosted a horse trainingteleseminar with Aaron.

During this informative session, Aaronagain talked about baggage.

We talked about how to work through itand to get the horse to trust that the baggageis not going to harm him.

We discussed the horse we filmed and howhe did it.

Aaron transformed the horse from a "Don'ttouch or saddle me" scardey cat to an "Okay...you win...go ahead and saddle me - just be careful"horse.

How'd he do it?

As you watch the video it becomes painfullyclear how patient you gotta be when you train a horse.

Another obvious thing is how much work ittakes.

The next obvious thing is how often the horse does exactly as Aaron wants, then a fewminutes later he doesn't.

That's just something you have to workthough. That's where the patience thing comesin because you cannot realisticaly expect thehorse to do what you ask every time once he'sfigured it out.

It takes repetitions.

You have to work through it because there's baggage.

You gotta go slow. You gotta look forthe littlest cooperation and reward it.

When the video was done, Aaron had thehorse following him like a shadow and was ableto put the saddle on him and the horse acceptedit and stood still with it on.

What a wonderful exercise it was to watch.

Here's a horse who's nature it is to flee and not trust yet Aaron had the horsefollowing him and trusting him.

I don't care how many times I've seen it or done it, it's awesome to watch and exhilirating to accomplish.

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