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Horse-Back Riding
What does it mean to break a horse? I know that my friend rode my other friends horse, and now that horse is "broken". What does this mean?
PS: The horse is around 10 years old and was already trained and a good horse...but after he got "broke" he got a little slower and brattier.
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Seems like horse-people have different definitions for "breaking" a horse. Generally it means "to train". In your case, the horse was trained more than it already was. Sometimes older horses get spoiled along the way and need "re-schooling". The 10 yr. old has negative behavior now possibly because the training was (and continues to be) unpleasant for him. [I don't know the details of the horse or its history/owners, so it's my best guess.]
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to break a horse is to make them domesticated basically, so maybe you thought he was already trained but he wasn't fully. and he may only be slower because now he is being more responsive to the rider because maybe the rider is training him to have control of its speed
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I don't know what your friend did, but if the horse didn't throw her off on her fanny or at least try, she didn't break anything.
I broke horses when I was a teen. You take a horse that hasn't been ridden before and work with him/her until someone can ride it without getting bucked off. You teach them to ride with a saddle on their back, a person on their back, and you teach them to turn etc. You get a few bruises along the way.
So the horse was already broke. All she did was ride.
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