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Various of girls riding ponies2. Various of girls and ponies at stables3. Various of girls riding ponies4. Set up of Isabelle Matula, horse riding teacher 5. SOUNDBITE (French) Isabelle Matula, Horse riding teacher...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eParis - 10 May, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of girls riding ponies\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of girls and ponies at stables\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of girls riding ponies\u003cbr/\u003e4. Set up of Isabelle Matula, horse riding teacher \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (French) Isabelle Matula, Horse riding teacher :\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are not really any tests for horses. I mean when they (horses) get here, teachers ride them and we can somehow judge their mental and physical abilities, their competences. If we see a horse of high quality, we keep it for competitions, and if we see a nice horse, that is not aggressive, not vicious in the stable and who doesn't bite, then we can use it with (riders of) lower levels.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNouzilly - 26 April 2007\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of horses at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) facility \u003cbr/\u003e7. Various of National Stud Farms researcher Lea Lansade with test horse in stalls \u003cbr/\u003e8. Lansade putting white sheet on ground, horse not reacting\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (French) Lea Lansade, INRA researcher :\u003cbr/\u003e\"Some horses are very fearful, and they never walk on the sheet or cross it. They will stay at the very end of the stall; they will turn around frantically, or stay on the alert. There is a grid of various behaviours, and signs of stress that we follow. There is a wide range of behaviours: those who will jump over, those who will cross after a while and then there is this pony who crossed very quickly.\" \u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of Lansade watching horses\u003cbr/\u003e11. Black umbrella being put up through a hole in the wall of the stall \u003cbr/\u003e12. Pony in stall running from umbrella\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (French) Lea Lansade, INRA researcher :\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have been trying to develop these tests for six years, and we have finally managed. As you see, the tests are based on very simple principles but the environment and the grid of behaviours are very standardised. Nothing is done at random. You cannot do the umbrella test in the middle of a field, it wouldn't give any results. It's the entire environment for the tests that took us so long to put together.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of horses and ponies in stable \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (French) Lea Lansade, INRA researcher :\u003cbr/\u003e\"What buyers usually ask is, 'if we leave a horse with you for 20 or 25 minutes top, would you be able to guess his temperament, his personality and could we know whether his behaviour is well adapted to its use, either for leisure or for sports.'\"  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of horses\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (French) Lea Lansade, INRA researcher :\u003cbr/\u003e\"This study is useful for both leisure and sports. For leisure, it is obvious: it will help people to choose horses that are friendly, with an easy personality, horses that are not dangerous and who are adapted to riders of leisure, especially children. But it also has a huge impact because if you consider two horses with equal physical force, one can be a very good horse for sports, if it has good mental abilities, if it doesn't get stressed during the races, or if it pays attention to the obstacles and not make them fall. And then you can have a horse with the same physical force, which can be a very bad horse for races, if it doesn't have the personality that fits in.\"  \u003cbr/\u003eLongchamp race track, Paris - 3 May, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Longchamp entrance\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of spectators watching the race\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of horses racing\u003cbr/\u003e21. Jockeys walking with horses before race\u003cbr/\u003e22. Set up of horse trainer Tony Clout \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (French) Tony Clout, Horse trainer :\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is interesting because we work in an observational way and it is always interesting to see scientists put things into parameters. This way, we can learn a lot, step back and think again about the way we buy horses.\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of horses and jockeys\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (French), Pascal Adda, Nine times French equestrian champion :\u003cbr/\u003e\"The tests; the white sheet, the umbrella - you cannot really use them to set generalities. But evidently, I would rather have a horse that is not too fearful because in races where horses are very close to each other you need horses that are a bit feisty.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Adda talking \u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of jockeys walking with horses  \u003cbr/\u003eNine simple tests have been developed by researchers in France to determine the temperament of young horses.\u003cbr/\u003eThe study by the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), near Tours, south west of Paris, demonstrated that the temperament of a horse can be predicted reliably from the age of eight months. \u003cbr/\u003eOver the past decades, interest in leisure horse riding has sky rocketed in France. \u003cbr/\u003eToday there are more than one million amateur riders in France, and, according to statistics from the French Federation of horseback riding, 88% of these riders are below the age of 15, and 76% are girls.\u003cbr/\u003eThe temperament of a horse is an essential factor for its appropriate use, be it leisure riding, sports competitions or racing.\u003cbr/\u003eHorses for leisure riding, for example, must be calm and steady so that they do not express any exaggerated reactions of fear which could lead to accidents. \u003cbr/\u003eUntil now, no objective tests were available to discover the temperament of a horse, nor to select a horse based on his personality. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Centre Bayard\" is a horse riding centre in Paris for both children and adults.\u003cbr/\u003eInstructor Isabelle Matula says teachers there have had no easy way of detecting the temperament of a horse other than through use.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen new horses arrive at the centre, instructors just ride them and try to guess their temperaments using their instinct and empirical experience of horses. \u003cbr/\u003eIn response to demands from professionals in the equine world, a scientific study was carried out over the past six years, at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), near Tours, south west of Paris.\u003cbr/\u003eDeveloped with the support of the National Stud Farms under the supervision of researcher Lea Lansade, this study has demonstrated that the temperament of a horse can be predicted reliably as from the age of eight months. \u003cbr/\u003eBy studying more than 400 horses since 2001, Lansade has managed to identify nine simple tests which can objectively characterise the temperament of horses. \u003cbr/\u003eBetween 2001 and 2007, hundreds of horses were studied at the INRA centre in order to develop tests. \u003cbr/\u003eDuring this period, more than 30 tests were developed to measure different aspects of temperament such as fear, social motivation ie : the acceptance of being alone or not, reactions to humans, the general level of activity or the sensitivity of horses. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter three years of research, nine tests were retained because of their ease of application, their reliability and their repeatability.  \u003cbr/\u003eFor example, the test of the white sheet is used to determine the level of fear and curiosity of a horse. \u003cbr/\u003eThe horse is placed at one end of the sheet and some food is left at the other end. \u003cbr/\u003eLansade says researchers then observe the reactions of the horse in front of the sheet: some panic and never cross the sheet, others take a certain amount of time before risking to walk on it but some horses are fearless and do it very easily.\u003cbr/\u003eAnother test is the test involves an umbrella. \u003cbr/\u003eThe horse stays alone in its stall while an umbrella is put through a hole in the wall and opened very quickly.\u003cbr/\u003eAgain this test aims at checking the horses' level of fear.  \u003cbr/\u003eLansade says that although the tests may seem very simple, they are actually very rigorous and based on standardised scientific principles which can not by copied by anyone or in any environment. \u003cbr/\u003eThe most important thing is that the tests are useful for those professionals who need to assess a young horse they see for the first time, and do it quickly in 20 or 25 minutes at most, she explains\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to INRA, this study has made it possible to design the first model in the world for equine temperament, with proven long-term stability. \u003cbr/\u003eThis means that simple tests performed as from the age of eight months can predict the suitability of horses for different uses in adulthood.   \u003cbr/\u003eAs well as being able to predict the temperament of horses, the aim of the study was also to determine which temperament is best suited to different uses. \u003cbr/\u003eFor Lansade, the study is useful for both leisure and sports riding.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new study has also raised interest in the world of racing such as the Longchamp race tracks, where buyers, trainers and jockeys are looking for horses with specific temperaments - horses that will win.\u003cbr/\u003eFor horse trainer Tony Clout, the study is interesting. \u003cbr/\u003eHe thinks it can influence the way buyers choose their horses at purchase. \u003cbr/\u003eRider Pascal Adda is a bit more sceptical about the tests. He says they cannot be used to set up general patterns of behaviour, but he agrees they could be very useful for buyers who are looking for fearless or aggressive horses.\u003cbr/\u003eNational Stud Farms plan to make the test available to horseback riding centres in France and around the world, while INRA is now planning to follow up on this study.\u003cbr/\u003eThe other seven tests used at INRA are : \u003cbr/\u003eTouch the animal with a fine filament around its wither, to see how much the muscles quiver, to test the horse's sensitivity.  A broad variability in responses may be observed: some hypersensitive horses always quiver, while others never present any reaction. Conduct of these tests proved to precisely predict the aptitude of the horse to be mounted, and notably its sensitivity to the rider's natural aids. \u003cbr/\u003eSubject the horse to a \"passive human\" test: the animal's behaviour is observed in the presence of an immobile person at the door of its stall for 90 seconds, to test its reactions/friendliness towards humans. \u003cbr/\u003eSubject the horse to the \"active human\" test: a person moves towards the horse to put on a halter; in this case, the observer takes account of the time necessary to touch the shoulder, touch the head and put on the halter, assessing the horse's immobility and other behaviours such as trotting, biting or sniffing. \u003cbr/\u003ePut two horses together, then remove one for 80 seconds and check the other horse's reaction, to test the horse's sociability \u003cbr/\u003eTouch the horse's hind quarters to see how much they contract. \u003cbr/\u003eMeasure the horse's reaction when put in an unknown 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