How to Get Your Horses to Cross a Wooden Bridge.

Another obstacle that you have in the trail class is the wooden bridge. Fortune was scared of the wooden bridge but after a few months of working, I got her to cross it all the way without stepping off the side. Like I have said before, it takes some horses longer to learn. It is the same with us humans. I sometimes have to work ten times as hard as others to learn the same thing. How to teach a horse to go over the wooden bridge? You go in circles around it a few times a day for a week. Then ask him to put a foot on it and then walk off. Do this for a few days. After that ask for two feet and repeat till all four are on. After all that, ask them to walk over it all the way. They might try to step off the side. If they do that, ask again until they walk straight across the wooden bridge.