Mini School

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This training guide highlights the highly trainable and versatile miniature horse, advocating for a new perspective on their value and skills. It provides comprehensive steps to train these minis as exceptional performance animals, challenging the notion that they should be limited to roles like lawnmowers or stable companions. Utilizing classical training methods, the manual covers a variety of topics, including feeding practices, carriage driving, and dressage movements such as levade. As the first book of its kind for Mini enthusiasts, it treats the training and conditioning of minis with the same seriousness as their full-sized counterparts. The guide includes practical in-hand work aimed at achieving a relaxed, supple body and collected frame, along with obedience. Key information includes how minis learn through association and success, techniques for managing factors that affect learning, and exercises on the longe line with proper use of side-reins and whip cues. It also features popular tricks like bowing, kneeling, and rearing, lateral work such as leg-yield and shoulder-in, and in-hand dressage movements including pirouettes and piaffe. Additionally, it covers conditioning through interval training and cross-training, and provides a dictionary of voice commands with usage tips.