pdj47 wrote:
evergrey wrote:
The BO said yesterday "it takes about 3 lessons for a horse to learn a bad habit, and 1,000 for them to unlearn it." Hell if I know what training method that idea comes from, but I'll take the thought seriously.




It's pretty easy to teach a horse something but damn hard to unteach um ...

Exactly. I've seen "NH" trained horses that will bolt backwards whenever you wiggle a leadrope. That is incredibly hard to unteach, just from personal experience.