Know You, Know Your Horse

by Eunice Rush, Marry Morrow

Overview

Wouldn't it be wonderful to understand how horses think? How they will react to certain situations in advance? As a matter of fact, wouldn't it be wonderful to know how the people in your life think and will react, too? Now you can! Know You, Know Your Horse delves deeply into sections of the horse and human brain to describe core personalities—what the authors call Social Styles. Understanding these personalities allows the reader to determine which kind of horse will work best for which kind of person. This helps ensure success in selecting, rehabbing, choosing training methods, as well as matching a horse and rider to a particular discipline. Includes a bounty of tests and charts to enable each reader to more accurately determine accurate horse and human personalities. Any horse owner (seasoned or new) or trainer (amateur or professional) will gain a more complete understanding of what makes their equine partner tick by reading this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570765209
Publisher:	Trafalgar Square
Publication date:	01/04/2013
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Marry Morrow began riding at age seven. Over the subsequent years, she was involved in trail riding as well as showing English, Western, Saddle Seat, Jumping, and Dressage. Marry spent much of her time working with equine rescue groups to train abused horses for new homes, green broke horses for an assortment of clientele, conducted private training sessions for horse and owner, and conducted natural horsemanship clinics. Helping to connect horse and owner in a way that forms a partnership built on confidence, leadership and love was her passion. Marry sadly passed away in November 2015. She will be remembered for her deep love of horses. Eunice Rush has an undergraduate degree in Business and Math from Indiana University and a Master's of Science in Information Technology from Ball State. She has spent the past 25+ years in management, sales, and adult education. One of the things she enjoyed most in her many jobs was the opportunity to teach others how to be good salespeople by reading personalities and aligning their personalities appropriately with their client. Eunice spent a large amount of time studying exactly what makes people tick, how to manage them, sell to them, educate them and become partners with them. She has now applied this study to fellow lovers of horses and collaborates with horse trainer Marry Morrow on studying both horse and human personalities.

Table of Contents

Glossary of Terms ix

Introduction 1

The Value of Knowing and Understanding Personality 1

Part 1 The Human Personality 7

1 Getting to Know Yourself 9

The Four Basic Social Styles 10

2 The Social Style Questionnaire 21

Evaluating Your Social Style 22

3 The Four Components That Define Human Personality 33

Left or Right Brain? 33

Introvert or Extrovert? 37

Birth Order 39

Learning Method 45

4 The Four Human Social Styles-In More Depth 57

Analysts (LBI) 58

Powerfuls (LBE) 61

Mediators (RBI) 64

Advocates (RBE) 67

The Whole Human 69

Part 2 The Horse Personality 73

5 Getting to Know Your Horse 75

Horse Personality Questionnaire 78

6 Four Components That Define Horse Personality 89

Introvert vs. Extrovert 89

Right Brain vs. Left Brain 90

Herd Order 92

Learning Method 96

The Whole Horse 98

7 Physical Characteristics: Effects on Personality 101

Conformation Analysis 101

Measuring Techniques 105

Part 3 Matching Human to Horse and Horse to Human 109

8 Putting It All Together 111

Selecting a Match 111

Matching the Right Job to the Right Horse 121

9 Testing Our Matching Personality Theories 127

Breeding Farm A 127

Breeding Farm B 131

Breeding Farm C 134

10 Personality Matching: Brief Summary 135

Personality Analysis: Human and Horse 135

Five Case Studies 138

11 Second Chances for Desperate Horses: Pain Evaluation 167

Part 4 Training Techniques for Your Horse's Social Style 181

12 Training: What to Expect 183

Creating the Balanced Horse 183

13 The Thinker (LBI) 193

Inventive, Food-Oriented, Curious 193

14 The Worker (LBE) 203

Friendly, Willful, Hard-Working 203

15 The Actor (RBI) 213

Reserved, Devoted, Intense 213

16 The Talker (RBE) 221

Spirited, Active, Impulsive 221

17 The "Rescue" Horse and Other Training Tips 229

Rehabilitating the Abused Horse 229

A Few Trainers' Tricks 237

Conclusion 241

About the Authors 243

Acknowledgments 245

Index 247

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Identifying personality has long served to improve client-customer relationships and increase sales in business, and it is from this practical realm that author Eunice Rush draws experience. In this innovative and interesting book, she joins with horse trainer Marry Morrow to apply this analysis to the complex world of choosing, training, and riding your horse." —Lone Star Horse Report (February 2013)

Editorial Reviews

Identifying personality has long served to improve client-customer relationships and increase sales in business, and it is from this practical realm that author Eunice Rush draws experience. In this innovative and interesting book, she joins with horse trainer Marry Morrow to apply this analysis to the complex world of choosing, training, and riding your horse.”—Lone Star Horse Report

“This is a fascinating book on people and horse personalities. … [E]specially helpful for someone looking to buy a new horse, but also fantastic for either learning how to get along with the one you have, or realizing it needs to move along to a new owner that fits!”—Mid-South Horse Review

From the Publisher