Sue with a week old Andalusian filly in her lap. This filly has almost outgrown her which shows the importance of getting this lesson accomplished very early.
















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Enhanced Foal Training was developed to be practiced in conjunction with basic Imprinting. EFT recommends the addition of a comfortable bean bag to allow the handler and foal to remain above floor level and very much at ease.
















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This Lusitano/Arabian filly is shown in the Enhanced Foal Training I video at three days of age. She was a very active foal, born quite strong and with a lot of spirit. Here she is sitting quite comfortably in Allen's lap, but as you can see at one week of age she is getting big already.




















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Pedestals are introduced within the first few days. This is the beginning of teaching the foal that there is a special place where she can always feel safe.
















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Within just minutes you can teach any foal to step up. Teaching her to remain in place takes a little longer. The details of this lesson are expanded upon in the EFT II video.
















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Teaching a foal to step up is different than sending a foal to a pedestal. This is the beginning of Liberty schooling.

















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Sitting down with a foal is the first step.
Next is teaching the foal to sit down and remain sitting on her own.
This is an extremely useful exercise as well as an age appropriate challenge. Most foals have little patience and learning to sit begins to instill patience in the foal and also impress upon her the correct herd hierarchy.




















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This is a perfect illustration of just how easy it becomes to sit a foal down. This foal had only a couple days to learn this part of the lesson. All foals adapt quickly to this challenge and actually end up truly enjoying the bean bag. Sabrina was just 5 yrs. old and the foal sat willing for her.




















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Isabelle is shown here outside repeating the same lesson she learned in her schooling stall. As you can see she is completely comfortable resting on the oversize bean bag.




















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Just a few months later Isabelle enjoys her bean bag just like it is just another play toy. She is shown here diving onto it just for fun.




















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Saber is shown here learning to stay put on the bean bag according to Allen's directive.




















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Saber at two weeks of age and Isabelle at ten days.
Notice the foal's dams are no where to be seen, yet they foals are perfectly attentive, respectful and obviously capable of schooling together.




















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This is a further gymnastic exercise that teaches a foal to be more aware of her ability to control her body in different ways.




















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This is a scene from the EFT I dvd showing two young foals schooling together.
























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Isabelle is shown here being introduced to her first adult horse (besides her dam).
Hasana was raised using the EFT methods and so she was perfectly at ease with the foal. The foal demonstrated an enormous amount of confidence by standing her ground while she was being investigated for the first time by a strange horse.




















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The early training these horses received was obvious, yet the foals were only two weeks old.
This illustration appears in Dr. Robert Miller's book The Revolution in Horsemanship along with a brief mention of Allen's innovative schooling techniques.
Click on the image to open a link to Dr. Miller's foal imprinting web page.




















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This photo was taken during the filming of our Enhanced Foal Training I program. This style of schooling young foals has never been demonstrated before by anyone.




















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Teaching a foal to step up is the first part of a series of new learning situations all linked to a pedestal. Here is the way Allen teaches a foal to hold an object in its mouth.




















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This variation of holding an object was well established in this very young foal.




















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Gater and Isabelle are full brother and sister. Navegador aka Gate is now our #1 horse in the Imagine A Horse entertainment routines and also he is a very capable assistant when it come to training the younger ones.
Every horse who has acted as an assistant seemed to enjoy the opportunity.




















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By associating a raised platform (in this case carpet covered hay bales) with the foal's natural desire to sniff noses with his dam, he can easily be taught to hop up and remain in place.




















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Here the young foal is seeking refuge up on the platform near his dam and away from the newest member to our school.
The palomino QH was sent to us for training the day after weaning on a big ranch. He had almost no handling at all and was as wild as they come. Here he is shown just a few weeks into his schooling.




















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This young Arabian colt is shown participating in a Big and Little act on the very first morning of his life.
His dam was raised using the EFT methods.




















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