The time it takes to train a horse is decided by the horse.With more experience the trainer gets more effective and there is less wasted time.When one starts working the horse, one needs to have the time needed, never start anything if there's not enough time to accomplish it.If you are short of time it's best to repeat something the horse already knows, then you can finish whenever you wish. If there is not time enough to finish in a correct way, and the horse has got away with his own, everything takes much longer the next time.

It's the training that gives the result, not the quantity thereof.To continue doing something the horse has done well, just because it's fun, can be devastating.

In the beginning of the horse's career you can teach him for the rest of his life, but you can also create problems by exaggerating.If you take the time that's needed in the beginning you can then progress much faster.

The horse learns immediately if he is given the chance to react correctly.He is very quick in his perception, many times he has reacted to a stimuli before the trainer notices it.If the stimuli is given at the right moment and stops at the right moment, the horse learns.What takes the horse a couple of seconds to learn can be refined during the rest of his life.Often too much is asked from the beginning. The horse learns bad habits himself. Teach him good habits, teach him what you want to happen.

Before the following step is initiated, the previous one must be accomplished, f.ex. is the horse to be ridden, he must allow the rider to mount. The more consolidated one phase is, the easier it is to continue the next one.There is nothing to gain by forcing the training, it has to be repeated anyway. It is much better to take your time in the beginning than having to repeat over and over.

When you do something with the horse, he will try the solution he learnt last. If that one doesn't work, he will try something else. The solution must be what you want the horse to do. A horse never lies, he does what he has been taught or what he has learnt himself.

When you pose a problem to the horse, the solution must be what you want the horse to do, if he does something else it's not his fault, it's the problem he had to solve that was incorrectly presented to him. A horse never makes anything wrong, he always does what is right to himself, however crazy it is, he doesn't do anything wrong. Whatever the horse does , he has chosen to do it himself, therefore everything that is put before the horse has to be so well thought that the horse is never forced to do something that's not right.

The horse can commit errors, one should correct errors, through correcting errors the right ways are being taught. You have to distinguish between wrong and mistakes.