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FredPuli43 | 13:53 Fri 22nd Jun 2012 | Animals & Nature
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Before the first race at Ascot, a filly was reluctant to go into the stalls. Her jockey's answer was to grab her ear. Can any horsey person on here explain how and why holding her ear was supposed to make her go forwards, or more obedient to the handlers? (It didn't work, by the way, and she was withdrawn)
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Yes, it's a technique for calming horses, part of a technique called T-touch, devised by an animal behaviourist called Linda Tellington. It actually works really well to calm a stressed horse, as does scratching its chest. But evidently not on this occasion.
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grab an ear, grab a load of neck skin, (gently) hold an ear down or a tongue - releases endorphins into the bloodstream and relaxes a horse. Known to 'horsemen/women' for a thousand years
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