What is Positive Reinforcement in horse training?

When training horses (or any animal for that matter… even sometimes humans..) the main way in which horses learn new behaviours is though Operant Conditioning. One component of Operant Conditioning is Positive Reinforcement. Here, Dr Andrew McLean explains what Positive Reinforcement is, and how we can use it in horse training in the form of food rewards or scratching / tactile rewards.
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[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

It kind of reminds me of training Dolphin's, and Seals, upon doing an act, they get fed a fish.