author(s)
Jyotimala Sahu, Aayush Yadav, Suresh Kumar, Sanjay Chaudhary, Rohit Kumar and Prasanna Pal

abstract
Basic horsemanship includes the art of riding, handling, and training horses which relies on subtle interactions between horses and humans. It consists of major steps of haltering, leading, longeing, saddling, bridling, mounting and dismounting. Good horsemanship requires a rider to control the animal’s direction, gait, and speed with maximum effectiveness and minimum efforts which occurs through the correct application of reinforcement. Behavioural approaches to training mark the value of horsemanship while several unwelcome problems develop because of the inappropriate application of training techniques resulting in a decline in the utility value of horses. However, the problems can be successfully managed by a modification of the behaviour by allowing the horse to socialize, providing enough exercise and adequate diets along with grazing and good training practices.