"If you want to teach your horses to be easy to catch, start by catching the ones begging to be let in first," advises
horse trainer Clinton Anderson. "As you start weaning down the herd, you'll notice that [hard to catch] horses get more willing to be caught. No one wants to be the last horse in the pasture because a lone horse in the pasture is easy pickings for predators." Clinton says that eventually the horses that are easy to catch will train the other horses to be caught easily, too. They soon learn being caught isn't so bad afterall. It actually comes with benefits like sweet feed and human companionship.
The opposite occurs if you start by trying to catch the unwilling ones first. As they begin running away from you,