Title: Identify approaches to ground training a horse.
Course: Equine Science, Advanced (18104-II) > Section: Handling and Grooming a Horse

Identification should include

- the terms groundwork, lunge, round pen, and voice aids
- the benefits of groundwork
- the use of voice aids, reinforcement, praise, and repetition in training
- time spent with various ages and stages
- facilities and equipment needed (e.g., arena, round pen, closed fenced-in area, lunge line, lunge whip, other tack)
- round pen techniques
- the need to teach a horse to lunge
- the need to introduce tack and equipment to a horse
- the need to teach a horse to load willingly.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are benefits of groundwork?
- How can groundwork benefit a trained horse?
- How does groundwork help with desensitization, and why is this important?