Michael O'Cumber
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This is our saddle that we're using.
Sometimes these lessons take like three hours, but I won't do that.
Right, come on over here, Clare.
A few things that you really need to know.
A horse is blind in front of her face.
So they can't see anything for the first three feet.
The higher the head goes, the farther away the blind spot becomes.
And the lower the head goes, the closer it gets.
But they can never see their food or anything like that.
They always smell it and feel it with their mouth, their nose.
A horse's nose is so sensitive that you can paralyse her whole body by squeezing her nose.
That's why years ago people used to use what they call a twitch.
It's a short piece of wood with a rope on the end of it.
You just catch the horse's nose, pull it through and twist it really tight.
creates so much pressure here and pain that you could do minor operations.