Comments on: Rider Insider: Your Horse’s Favorite Thing

By: Tod

Tod — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:06:21 +0000

My horse enjoys a Curry brush applied to his chest and he shows how much he loves that by curling his head down and under and his lips quiver. He also loves a scratch right above the withers and lifts his head up and twists dose a lip smacking facial expression. Lightly scratch his legs and he will nicker and kiss your hand to say more please.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:23:51 +0000

My Oldenburg/Morgan gelding Champ LOVES being touched more than anything in the world. If your hands are not on him, he will stretch to put his body the closest to the nearest human as he can (be it his nose, shoulder or tail). He looks around with a desperate look until you put your hands back on him. He goes into a trance and relaxes when touched. His favorite places are his haunches, shoulder, withers, neck, girth area, belly, sheath and face (yes…basically everywhere).

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:21:03 +0000

My lesson horse loves getting baths! When I turn on the hose he will pick it up and wave it all around, which leaves me soaked. Then, when when I start putting shampoo on him, he will stand as still as a rock. But, the cutest thing is the look of pleasure on his face. He will let his eyes droop and stick his nose up in the air. It is definately his favorite thing to do!

By: Madison

Madison — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:33:34 +0000

My horse loves getting kisses. When you put him back in his stall you always have to do the following: give him a treat, scratch his chest, the as you’re walking away, you have to give him a kiss. What he does is push him muzzle just barely through the bars on his stall door and before you walk away u have to give him a kiss on his little pink nose or else he will be very offended.

By: Frances

Frances — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:03:15 +0000

my lesson horse LOVES carrots! when you give her one she will follow you around like a little puppy until she get’s another, if not she will stare at you longingly as you walk away before realizing that she is wasting precious grazing time!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:09:01 +0000

My horse loves trails! Once we get on flat ground he brings out his inner thoroughbred and runs as fast as he can! He is always happy to get out of the arena and so am I!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 05:29:06 +0000

My horse is obsessed with Gatorade bottles. Any time I have a Gatorade bottle I have to let him have a sip or else he’ll knock it right out if my hand and spill it everywhere. He also loves holding the Gatorade bottle in his mouth and shaking his head up and down and watching the bottle move in between his lips.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:02:32 +0000

Mocca loves little kids. She’ll follow my little sister around in the pasture and when we go for walks. Mocca’s done birthday parties before and the she goes crazy (in a good way) with all the girls petting her all over; it’s so adorable!!

By: paula

paula — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:53:00 +0000

I have the fork part of a broken rake in my tack box.
He nudges it with his nose so I will take it out and scratch him with it.
Dereks head goes all the way up, nose and top lip all the way out and almost falls over when I get “right there thats the spot!”

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:41:23 +0000

Carrots! They make my Paint’s little heart sing. He will do almost anything (including let about 50 children get on and off of him) for a piece of carrot. I honestly think if we held a carrot up high enough, he would stand on his hind legs for it.