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For the movie directed by Robert Redford, see The Horse Whisperer.
A horse whisperer is a horse trainer who adopts a sympathetic view of the motives, needs, and desires of the horse, based on modern equine psychology. The term goes back to the early nineteenth century when an Irish horseman, Daniel Sullivan, made a name for himself in England by rehabilitating horses that had become vicious and intractable due to abuse or accidental trauma.

He kept his methods secret, but people who managed to observe him noticed that he would stand face to face with the troubled horse. They seemed to think that he must be saying something to the horse in a way the horse could understand and accept because the horses were quickly gentled by his mysterious techniques.

His techniques were passed over to Willis J. Powell, who learned them well and traveled widely in the America to help the most seriously traumatized horses. His fame spread, and more and more people sought help from him. He wrote his own book and later cooperated with John Solomon Rarey. Rarey was protective of the tradition he had thus learned, and in early versions of his own book did not reveal how the most severely traumatized horses were salvaged by the methods originated by Sullivan and passed to him by Powell. He did, however, always give Powell full credit for his methods of gentling horses. Finally he became convinced that it was better to reveal the secret method to the world than to risk its loss. That method is fairly faithfully represented in the novel and motion picture The Horse Whisperer.

The first horse whisperer is thought to have been Xenophon. Today, numerous trainers and clinicians call themselves horse whisperers, often building on the work of Daniel Sullivan, Willis J. Powell, and John Solomon Rarey in the 1850s. The early twentieth centuries exponents of securing the horse's cooperation by kindness include Tom Dorrance, and somewhat later Ray Hunt.

Dorrance's True Unity and Hunt's Think Harmony With Horses advocate "true understanding" of the horse. Monty Roberts wrote a textbook on the subject entitled From My Hands To Yours: Lessons from a Lifetime of Training Championship Horses.

Well-known trainers

Some well-known trainers using and advocating similar methods today include:

Literature and film

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Robert Redford

Birth name Charles Robert Redford, Jr.
Born July 18 1936 (1936--) (age 71)
Santa Monica, California

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The Horse Whisperer (1998) is a movie directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel by Nicholas Evans. Redford plays the title role, a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses, who is hired to help an
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Daniel Sullivan (died 1810[1]) was the founder of the most important method of horse training and remediation of abuse that falls outside of the traditions of European schools of dressage.
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Willis J. Powell wrote a book with John Solomon Rarey, Tachyhippodamia; on The New Secret of Taming Horses. This book was published before he died in 1848, but no publishing date is stated in the book itself. A later reprint was in 1872, in Philadelphia, by the W.R.
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John Solomon Rarey was one of the nineteenth century horse whisperers, an important figure in the rehabilitation of abused and vicious horses during the 1850s. Originally from Groveport, Ohio, Rarey trained his first horse at the age of twelve.
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The Horse Whisperer (1998) is a movie directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel by Nicholas Evans. Redford plays the title role, a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses, who is hired to help an
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Xenophon (In Greek Ξενοφῶν, ca. 431 – 355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates.
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Willis J. Powell wrote a book with John Solomon Rarey, Tachyhippodamia; on The New Secret of Taming Horses. This book was published before he died in 1848, but no publishing date is stated in the book itself. A later reprint was in 1872, in Philadelphia, by the W.R.
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John Solomon Rarey was one of the nineteenth century horse whisperers, an important figure in the rehabilitation of abused and vicious horses during the 1850s. Originally from Groveport, Ohio, Rarey trained his first horse at the age of twelve.
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Mark Rashid is an American horse trainer and clinician from Colorado. A practitioner within the field of natural horsemanship, Rashid's philosophy involves understanding the horse’s point of view and solving difficult problems with communication rather than force.
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Monty Roberts (born 1935 in Salinas, California as Marvin Earl Roberts) is a horse trainer who became world famous when his autobiography, The man who listens to horses, became a best-seller.
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Ray Hunt is an American horse trainer and clinician of significant influence in the natural horsemanship field, a mentor and teacher
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John Solomon Rarey was one of the nineteenth century horse whisperers, an important figure in the rehabilitation of abused and vicious horses during the 1850s. Originally from Groveport, Ohio, Rarey trained his first horse at the age of twelve.
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On Horsemanship written c. 350 BC by Xenophon is one of the earliest extant treatises on horsemanship in the Western world. In it, Xenophon details the selection, care, and training of horses for the use both in the military and for general use.
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The Horse Whisperer (1998) is a movie directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel by Nicholas Evans. Redford plays the title role, a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses, who is hired to help an
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Monty Roberts (born 1935 in Salinas, California as Marvin Earl Roberts) is a horse trainer who became world famous when his autobiography, The man who listens to horses, became a best-seller.
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The Rarey technique is a method of calming horses that have become vicious and fearful of humans due to abusive handling or other traumatic events. It is named for its inventor, John Solomon Rarey (1827–1866) of Groveport, Ohio, USA, who became famous for taming violent
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Horse behavior is best understood from the perspective that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight instinct. Their first response to a threat is to flee, although they are known to stand their ground and defend themselves or their offspring in cases where
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