An international best seller this book is a distillation of Andrew McLean's PhD thesis and reveals the huge potential offered by the use of behavioural science in training horses. Adopting these principals dramatically increases the number of horses that are able to effectively learn what we intend to teach them, no matter what the discipline. The book begins by examining our complex historical interaction with the horse explaining our largely misplaced expectations of the animal's mentality and their dire consequences. The Truth About Horses explains how we can improve the trained horse's welfare by constructing a much clearer training model.Written in a narrative style this book details in-hand and under-saddle training as well as re-training. The chapter on conflict behaviour represents the first time that a scientifically valid explanation of problem behaviours in horses has been written for the understanding of the general public.