It is important that the horse yield and make adjustments to it's body to move around you. A good exercise to practice for ground driving is to be able to drive a horse all of the way around an arena, round pen, or pasture. When you get good at this you can move off the barrier and drive the horse to objects, like a gate. Then your ready to move to trailer loading, this will be simple if you have ground driving working for you. There is some risk involved in horse training for both you and the horse.
Horses can cause serious injury.
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