When putting a horse back in the stall, it's important to make sure that the horse is rewarded for the riding experience. Avoid putting a horse in a stall immediately after the ride is over with helpful advice from a reining horse trainer in this video on preparing a horse for the stall.
Once we're done with our horse and he is cleaned up, he is ready to be put away, I recommend this more than anything I can think off. Tie him up for a while, alright? A horse, we talked about how getting off of a horse, petting a horse, there's a lot of different ways to reward a horse. But one of the things that I want my horse to understand is that ride wasn't necessarily about experience, it was fun, it was a good experience, alright? Now if you think about it, if I get the horse out of the stall, come out here, saddle him up, go out and ride him and make him work, do whatever and then instantly go put him back in the stall, the hard part was the riding, OK? The hard part was that exercise and all that work that I gave him out there. Which is he going to prefer? Being back in there or being out there riding? So the ideal thing to do with a horse after you've taken care of him is go find a place to tie him up, whether it's to a fence, whether it's to a post, whether it's to a tree or if all you've got is back in the stall, hang a chain back there, tie him up to that and let him stand for at least an hour before you go turn him loose. I think it's great mental therapy for a horse, at lease then they think about what happened, they don't just get totally released back into their comfort zone, they have to learn patience and wait and then you can go let them loose and then they can go ahead and have a great night's sleep and be ready for tomorrow.
