The trust between Horse and Human

About the AuthorRaimo Hyvärinen has spent more than fifty years working with horses. His experience comes from a lifetime of hands-on work with racehorses and young horses. He has trained racehorses, worked with foals from their earliest handling, and followed their development from the first steps of learning to work with humans all the way to the racetrack. Over the years, Raimo has also shared his knowledge with others, teaching horse-related skills and practical horsemanship.
His approach has always been based on understanding the individual horse rather than forcing every horse into the same training system. For Raimo, horses have never been merely athletes or pieces of sporting equipment. They are individuals, companions, workers, and teachers. Every horse has its own personality, strengths, weaknesses, and way of communicating. His long career has included successes, difficult moments, and mistakes.
He believes that mistakes are an important part of experience, because they teach us to look at the horse differently and to ask better questions. Today, Raimo wants to share what more than five decades with horses have taught him: that good horsemanship is not about always being right. It is about listening, adapting, knowing when to ask for more, and knowing when to step back. At the heart of his philosophy is one simple principle:First trust.
Then everything else.