Training Your Horse to Stand  Instructor and trainer Ron
Meredith explains how to train your horse to stand quietly when
you are grooming and working around him, at the same time
building the relationship between you.  Training
"Mythunderstandings"  Getting a horse to stand still is all
about getting its attention. Heeding teaches you to keep your
attention on the horse so that the horse will keep his attention
on you. Once you have the horse's attention, you use your body
position to create pressures or shapes that, in turn, create a
feeling in the horse that he should move forward or left or
right or stop. You can also direct him to stand still in one
spot while you work around him or the farrier works around him
or you want to put on his saddle.  The first place this giving
and receiving of attention starts is in grooming. So that's
where standing still also starts. You must pay attention to the
horse while grooming. This is very important in terms of horse
logic. The horse allows itself to be groomed and