Ground work with a pushy dominant horse

Must establish good manners with this pushy and dominating horse. These ground exercises will help a lot plus benefit him later when he is started under saddle.
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[@MrBillmedhurst]

I can think of a few million children that would benefit from this same type of training.

[@melblacke5726]

Yep

[@jdenmark1287]

And there are twice as many people that are parents that need to be trained first

[@pattirockgarden4423]

He doesn't look like a typical Morgan. He's making progress on the groundwork with your leadership. He's very distracted. Good video!

[@juliejarvis8584]

I appreciate your style of training and working with dominant horses by establishing that you are the alpha.

[@kilroygirl7347]

Denali couldn't have a better trainer. He's making a lot of progress. He sure is handsome.

[@mackenzielarsen1615]

My mare is very dominant and pushy on the ground. I appreciated this video so so much.

[@comesahorseman]

Notice that when this colt tries to tell him "no", Tim doesn't take it personally. He just keeps working through it.

[@Leenasims]

I believe I would do a lot, if I was rewarded with that kind voice! 😂🥰 I'm not surprised when the horses you train get better every time. Nice video! Thank you!

[@beckbeverley3451]

Thank you i always learn so much. I train mine in a similar way. I do a lot with rescued abused horses so being consistent is key. And knowing when to increase pressure and asks. I have a mare atm who is super reactive and dosent think at that place and time. But thankgod weve been building her capacity and being in a situation where she got all twisted up and thankfully we had worked on that and i was able to get her out of it. I love how u explain both the training newonces and horse reactions and what u use to guide what your training. Thank you

[@pegdiana]

I am taken with your ability to teach others….”If you can’t explain it to someone else, you don’t know it well enough yourself”. As an educator, this has been my mantra and one evidenced by you. Thank you for helping others and me. Not sure where the rope halter with the ring can be purchased as I did not see it in the links. Please send me your link for the purchase. Thanks, again.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Thank you. Here is the link to the halter. amzn.to/3R99yIx

[@lydiagould3090]

I agree with you ,a stoppy horse is harder to work with . I've had both ,and my young horse is real stoppy, and I need your good tecnique with the tail of the rope as I am not being effective ! I usually have a stick and tap her butt if she doesn't go to my ask, but its a bit of a handful when I'm trying to hold the long reins properly!

[@08Roadgl]

Lots of progress in this workout.

[@andrewcameron1346]

He looks like he’s never been tired in his life. Way more changes of direction needed there.

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

My goodness I wish someone had taught me about lunging decades ago. I had to do all this stuff while on their back, and I have the aches and pains because of.

[@TheFreelanceCowboy]

What do you mean exactly

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

@@TheFreelanceCowboy ??? I mean I got bucked off and bounced and kicked a couple times. Lots of rough rides that were hard on the joints.

[@darladelahunty4025]

I love your common sense and calmness. I wish I had seen any of your videos before I bought my first horse 40 years ago. I made so many mistakes.....It did not turn out well.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

He is beautiful!

[@danlindeke2561]

So in evaluating this horse,how long do you think training and cost?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

That all depends on what the owner wants. This particular horse I corrected his ground issues, started him under saddle, taught all the leg cues and neck reining. Taught how to correctly work a cow abd all of the ranch riding and ranch trail obstacles. Hauled to some shows to get accustomed to riding g I'm different places and showed him a few times. All of that took 1 year.

[@tomtke7351]

You, in previous vids, speak of horse looking around instead of at you. Well, everytime I watch your vids my eyes are ALWAYS drawn to the ladder-looking roof supports for your arena... And I like them...

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

I bet that would change if I started asking you to move your feet. Lol

[@ocathail84]

ONE OF THOSE!!!!!!!!!hahaha i have a 4yo criollo, lazy as... is exahusting to work with them, they drain you!!!! is always a good challenge to work with these type of horses, greeteings from uruguay!

[@wesmccoy7061]

Great video Jim. Nice progress. Pretty leggy for a Morgan??

[@richardwilliams3302]

Thanks for sharing.

[@honesttraitorbear3527]

Putting his head down while walking (to sniff the ground etc) is a sign of disrespect? Can you elaborate your thoughts on the matter?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Yes you are right but you have to look at the bg picture to decide when and how to reprimand. Always choose your battles.

[@idellbrown1825]

Still has stud remnants of a young stallion. The newer Morgan's are bred to be more fine boned and refined in appearance,to me is unfortunately what people want. The original type of Morgan has been bred out. Sad on so many levels in my opinion.❤

[@kellibrown1491]

Totally agree about type change. Pity.

[@kds1451]

Proud cut

[@Sarah-ok4qe]

Hey tim, i can't quite tell if your usnig a whip, but if so what kind is it? and does it have a long tail on it?

[@pgree6176]

I like this horse something about him!

[@debramccarthy2182]

Mr Tim, I recently bought a gelding who had been a servicing stallion and he seems to have a head swinging habit. He can actually throw the reins over his head with this head swing. Is there somewhere I can tie a light string to keep this from happening. My vet said that although his operation was complete, he may retain some of these stallion motions for quite some time. Wondered what you've experienced.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

The horse I am working in this video was still having learned behaviors even though his hormone levels were normal. My thought with yours is you need to start chipping away at retraining his learned behaviors or they will never go away.

[@debramccarthy2182]

@@timandersonhorsetraining Thank you so much Mr. Tim. It's been a challenge to my 68 yo body and mind!! 😊

[@andrewpereira5020]

Perhaps I missed it in the last video, but has he been ridden.?

[@victoriawhite3662]

Not on this horse, he was recently cryptorchid, but I see some of this in geldings that were cut alittle late. Alot of well bred horses are kept intact to see how they grow up and develop, for breeding potential . People always say cryptorchid, but it's that his brain, habits and *world view" developed with those hormones.

[@1ecafuentes]

Bingo

[@pjk1714]

Tim do you plan on keeping him a couple months with his recent surgery?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Yes. He is all healed up and released from his surgery. Now I have to retrain the learned behavior from what he got away with before his surgery.

[@terrifrye2803]

Great video content. This guy is an interesting one , as to his future progress and time frame needed. Do you happen to know, the time he had his surgery completed Tim? Just curious, did he start training after an allotted period of time- to allow some hormones to clear? Thank you for sharing sir ❤️

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

He is completely healed from the surgery. I don't think I'm battling hormones now, I think now I'm retraining learned behavior from what he got away with when he still had the hormones.

[@terrifrye2803]

@@timandersonhorsetraining Thank you for your reply. This info helps me understand the situation a bit better. I appreciate your wisdom.

[@lovelylisawarriorqueen7923]

My gelding was the same, didn't take him long though to learn.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

This guy will come around too.

[@jacquelynhowell2045]

What is this halter with the ring? Did not see it listed.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Those are hard to find, I don't have a consistent source that's why I don't have a link.

[@jacquelynhowell2045]

@@timandersonhorsetraining Thank you.

[@andrewpereira5020]

I’ve just deduced the answer to my question.

[@jbohio7821]

Driving them is similar to how a stallion drives his mares. They have to know that we can move them as

[@jbohio7821]

As a leader does!

[@Lorgayle1]

Tim, did you reveal his breed?

[@terrifrye2803]

He did, in the comments under the last post of Denali. I had to look as well. Tim said he is Morgan.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Yes. He is a Morgan.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@terrifrye2803 I guessed wrong on him then. I still think of Morgans as cobby dark bays. They have changed a lot over the years, depending on what they are used for.

[@terrifrye2803]

@@DoubleDogDare54 yes agreed. When thinking of the “vintage” (my terminology) image of Morgans, I visualized what you described as well.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@terrifrye2803 I actually tabbed this "Morgan" as an Arab cross. Perhaps a Morab, but these days "type" on Morgans goes in multiple directions. I'm not that up on the breed to recognize all of them on sight.

[@4Beats4Me]

I've owned & trained cryptos - without protest. Maybe this horse is late cut without followup to retrain that hormonal response.

[@mariagillinson8527]

I suspected mine was a cryptorchid and found out there’s bloodwork that can be done, I think hormones.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

To be honest, I thought he was a colt.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

That would have been a reasonable assumption.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

He WAS.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@arribaficationwineho32 I thought he still was based on his looks and behavior.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

@@DoubleDogDare54 I think I heard he was gelded and released for training? I could be wrong.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@arribaficationwineho32 He was originally a ridgling, then gelded. He had only recently been gelded and sort of still had the behavior and looks of a colt. If Tim said he had been gelded I didn't hear it at first and thought he was a colt - a mistake on my part, obviously.

[@ldg2655]

He looks like a Morab

[@jaysanders7472]

He acts like he is a cut proud Blue list Arabian or saddlebreed

[@montyklaus7223]

I always throw a new horse down and when I let him up he knows who is boss and don’t push you around anymore, no one does that anymore

[@cricket.1067]

But yeah you gotta smack that stoppy horse, he will not get afraid of any reprimand, and there, nothing broken, nothing bent.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

Smack barn witches. Works every time

[@cricket.1067]

I would never choose you to get a colt under control. No Friggin way! Been more Women doing the job better.

[@carolynstewart8465]

What?

[@arribaficationwineho32]

Not a colt and he is doing just fine. Why so bitter?

[@arribaficationwineho32]

@@carolynstewart8465from a barn witch. Aka Karens