Lukas - The World's Smartest Horse - 2009 Update Part 1 of 5

[@MRFUNNYGAMING1990]

The Horse trained Her to give Him treats.. thats Very Smart!

[@RickyJr46]

He's bright lad, Lukas! 😉

[@flyinwhitehorse]

So cool! Land of Little Horses in Gettysburg, Pa has miniature horses that recognize numbers plus they can add and subtract too. Horses are smarter then what some humans give them credit for!

[@annadalhoff6906]

Thats so impressive! Doesn't matter if she helps him a bit, he still at least knows the order! Thats so amazing

[@kraftpr]

to the other commenters... she mixed things up and he still seemed to know where the right number or shape was. Personally, I do think horses are highly intelligent animals. I wish I had the property and the means to have one. They're such beautiful, noble animals.

[@usagigeisha32]

Lukas is amazing. He's so beautiful thank you for sharing ^__^

[@A7xgirlx]

I just love this horse, and how calm and quite she is with him. Great pair =)

[@jenniferd2012]

I met this horse at horse back riding in South Carolina and I love that I live in the same state as him! She told me that she is teaching him the hokey pokey😂

[@AzharuDeen]

nevermind if he memorized the order or whatever.. but he did it perfectly... i adore him... great job!!

[@icarus1080]

Gonna need a video that shows the trainers hands ... i suspect that she's signaling what part of the table to put his nose on with her other hand. A friend of mine and I use that technique to make people think one of us is magic. :P

[@beckytrochinski5188]

He is so cute I would love to have a horse that sweet and just super smart 🐴😊

[@kenzieshelley4172]

The horse is memorizing. It's simple training, just most people don't teach their horses this. Mine nods if you ask him if he wants a treat, he goes to his stall if you say "go home" or "go to your room". It's easy, fun stuff to teach your horse.

[@lisagay7271]

So beautiful so sweet great video I love. Your.beautful. horce. Vert.smart 😁😎😄😊😍😙🙄

[@sockpuppety]

Seems to me to be similar to Clever Hans (he's well worth looking up!) It's not actual spelling or counting, but reading subtle cues (or not so subtle, this horse is maybe not as clever as Hans was, and we humans can see the cues here) given by the trainer but I think that's pretty smart in it's own way!

[@PeteyandBreyers]

I think this is amazing, but just pointing out that the order of the shapes is the same as his name

[@massivejester]

Was just thinking the same thing, he learnt that by order, not by shape or letter.

[@altrey520]

Was just thinking ok now mix them up please lmao then she proceeds to prove me right with the same patterns on the shapes 🤦‍♂️definitely not doing the fact that they are great communicators any justice although he did knock the mixed numbers up...🤔

[@youngwise2000]

I do believe horses deserve more credit for the cognitive capacity, but the lady in this video is leading the horse to the letters/shapes with her hand. Watch closely.

[@essmeeeee]

SO ADORABLE LOVE IT🎠 :)

[@alexsavasquez3428]

Have u noticed that she puts the shapes in the same direction as the letters

[@roseroro20]

So cute 💗

[@Khornedevotee]

Well friend, that's the reason you throw salt in the haters' eyes. So they don't have to watch what they don't appreciate or like, and can't write hateful comments either. ;D Jokes aside, this is some clever horse. :) I like this horse.

[@laurabean5816]

smartest horse the most wonderful mr Jim keys. Lucas is smart but not like him. glad you are doing that work with horses to teach people they are smart. keep moving on. love your work

[@RenderedB312]

Every second she's like TREAT TREAT TREAT TREAT

[@clairebacchi360]

Give credit where credit is due. Why is everyone trying to find fault with the trainer and horse. The horse is smart. End of story.

[@peyton7283]

The shapes and his name were in the same pattern

[@LauraLovesMocha]

whoa. i found his owner on facebook randomly and i searched him up and wow.. my mind is blown

[@elliegeorgiaxo]

if you look, the shapes were in the same order as the letters. L - Heart, U - Butterfly, C - Square, A - Horse, S - Star.

[@ScarIetnocturna]

lol the horse is funny, after every tap of the letter or number he's like gimme my treat women, cute and funneh

[@emilywise3524]

beautiful horse!

[@GreyAlien11]

This is nothing new! I had a horse that knew at least 150 words, she was a Crab Arab, she was super smart, she stood up when told, she went down when told, the greatest trick she had was 'find your mummy' she could be free anywhere in the bush in Australia, she would find me..... she could be told to get out of this paddock and wait for me, she went to the gate , opened it, shut it, then waited...... she knew she was free, she chose to be with me, that is no pain, no force training to its full........ i could turn her loose anywhere and she would find me..... she was 38 years old when she died of cancer, she was rugged all her life, the Aussie sun never hit her, ive honestly never recoverd, she was my sister, my daughter, my soul mate.... she was me!!!! people say i am incredable with equines but i feel lost without her, yes i hear, yes i speak, but do i want to help again, i neeed her

[@WestCoastSi]

Love your horse; he has such a sweet and willing to please disposition. How long did it take for him to start doing what you wanted of him after you got him?

[@belllarosa]

Lukas you sweet thing😍😍🐺💋💋

[@ASLFrugalMom]

Oh people please, this lady is an awesome trainer and obviously has a very good relationship with Lukas. But as far as him knowing his shapes and being able to count? No... She's giving him cues which way to move his head every time he comes back for a treat. Every horse is very intelligent and with time, effort and the proper training any horse could do ANY of this.

[@bigbenstubbs]

She pushes his head in the direction of the correct answer after she feeds him. You can't always tell because the camera and her body is usually angled so that it's hidden. If you look closely you can see it.

[@xEmeraldFire]

I have horses and know that they can be very very smart, but she needs to mix up the letters and numbers so we can see he's not just pointing at the right spot. I have seen the other parts of this and he is a very smart horse! This just doesn't prove it.

[@NoWokeSpeak]

This is not to say that the horse isn't smart, because he is, but from what I see, it is less about the object and more about the signal through touch that gets him to touch the block she tells him to touch. Most noticeably is when she tells him to touch a block that is across her body. If you watch, she gently guides his head and moves her hand in the direction of the block she is calling out. This does not take away from the horse, because while he may not know what each thing is by name, he is able to discern what he is expected to do through touch and gesture. That my friends is incredibly intelligent considering this horse has to work out what this human wants him to do.

[@horselover152]

I'd like to see you try moving the shapes around and asking him then? With better training, he could be a smart horse, but a)he shouldn't be coming to you to get the treat and b) he shouldn't be rewarded when he does the wrong one.

[@whatyallcallsouthernanddow9746]

Lukas is a bueatiful horse! This is amazing. One thing for sure he has learned how to get treats from Karen Murdock !!!!

[@sydneyhigginson9663]

Wow the horse is soo smart and cute

[@cathgreenwood5357]

lol he's like humm humm humm fooooood

[@Frotsiepu]

because as you can see he enjoys it, and its healthy for the horse to think a bit over the stuff ;)

[@horseskickbutforever]

'the letter and the shapes are in the same order'. The thing is, when he mucked up a couple of the shapes, and she told him to do the square again, why did he know to go the square and not forward to the next shape?

[@stephanieopalbridge9615]

The lady has to push his nose away from the treats, duh! He is very smart!

[@RichardMustang]

Hes a horse. Those treats where tiny. Lol! It's not a toy poodle or something :P The horse looked healthy too.

[@anyaalchemy5628]

ok is doesn't matter what kind of order she put the stuff in just think how long it must have taken her to even teach this

[@scotthayes6711]

He is no Jim Key but still a beautiful and very smart boy.

[@luverofallanimethings506]

I love the horse and trainer

[@ydm.equestrian.connection944]

he isn't that smart. If you pay attention the woman asks him to touch the shapes the same order of letters in his name so she only taught him to touch certain places on the table. so it's a trick.

[@22SueEllen]

Go ahead and throw a towel over your horses head and maybe one for yourself, unless you have taken in horses with issues you cannot understand any of this training...

[@ydm.equestrian.connection944]

SueEllenBennett trust me i do. almost any horse can do it. its just tricks it doesn't prove he is smarter than other horse and if you don't have something smart to say, don't say anything. ITS ONLY TRICKS!

[@ydm.equestrian.connection944]

SueEllenBennett plus she is pushing his head

[@22SueEllen]

As I read all of the negative posts, yours seemed to catch my eye..... I took in unwanted horses for twenty-five years, sight unseen in most cases...... From my own experience with these horses ..... TRUST ..... is the key! As with human beings! This woman's patience, time, experience and love is what brought this horse around and to focus only on the treat and alignment of letters seems a little unfair, don't you think? Please view the rest of this amazing woman's videos! She is a TRUE talent in every sense of the word! Thank you for taking a moment to address my comment to you, I mean no disrespect to you in choosing your comment.......

[@oliviahimmerich4023]

just leave it alone imagine how long this took

[@equestrian998]

This horse gets wayyyy to many treats!

[@ginger20037]

As a fellow horse owner (gonna use a couple of mine as examples), I'm not all that impressed with these tricks, yes that is what they are. Any horse can learn them, all it needs is a bit of time and repetition. Don't get me wrong, it is cool that your horse has learned all those tricks, heck I'd like to teach my Standardbred mare (very moody and has an attitude) to pick up hats, she's smart enough to grasp it, she just rather do anything else (getting groomed, fed, grazing out in the pasture with my 8 other horses) so she'll ultimately ignore me, what tricks she does know my TWH mare taught her. Where as My QH mare, Indy (who would rather be with me, or anyone that will give her attention), I got her from out of state when she was 2 years old (papers to prove it) and the people who had her had already broke her to ride (I trust her on her own with small kids in a large group of horses) I only had her a couple days (week at most) and took her to a small local show and did the trail class, she earned 2nd out of 3 horses (if I remember right), I take her back home, and don't ride her for the month between the shows (kind of a test for her) I take her back into the same trail class (they never change the pattern much to my annoyance) no practicing on the pattern either, and she starts doing the pattern on her own with some to little correction from me she gets 2nd or 3rd out of 5 or 6 horses that time. then the next month (following the same pattern between shows) I take her in and as soon as I finish working the gate (very first thing to get through) she just goes into automatic, perfect 180 degree turn, backed through the cones without issue, made the other 180, trotted up to the bridge and walked over it, loped to the next cone flawlessly, stopped and did the 450 degree turn in the box, loped on the opposite lead to another cone and dropped down into a trot and weaved the remaining cones like it was the most natural thing in the world, much like eating and sleeping. The judge was shocked (all the other judges that have been there have been as well, there's a different one each month) she was only two years old. about 8 or so EXPERIENCED horses she took home the 1st place ribbon despite only being on the trail pattern two times prior with no extra work and just hanging out in the field between shows. I've taken her to a trail clinic once just last year where the trail was different, the gate was the last thing to be worked, and there was no attempt to try making a go for it thinking "Okay, the gates always been first gotta go there"

[@savannahdykes3373]

I hope when I get a horse I can teach it all that

[@JustASleepySloth]

Yeeaah no she's giving him directions towards the right one so he's not memorised it yet. He's more focused on the food reward than the actual table which under his nose like that he likely can't see very well. Also she says she moves them but doesn't actually move them neither does she move the letters or use different letters. All this horse is doing is all she's half trained him to do no more than what any other horse can do.

[@daraharvey4519]

that is PRECIOUS

[@luverofallanimethings506]

smart and talented PERIOD

[@TheSqueenie]

Actually, the numbers are not in the same place and I am teaching my horse this, they CAN identify shapes, numbers and letters. It is a good idea though to put the pieces with the numbers, etc. on the floor with something heavy attach so they don't move so much and further away to not confuse the horse when he/she gets it right and gets rewarded while training, they are just like people, they just need to be taught.

[@theZoecarroll]

Was amazing but the letter were in the same order as the animals.... but still amazing how he remembered the pattern !!

[@thomasabramson100]

Just wondering why are all 4 of his legs bandaged above the fetlocks ??

[@jhaydenshorse5195]

When he is 'spelling' his name you are pushing his head in the right direction

[@KarrooBossie]

He also memorises the patern

[@Elen637]

very good! he is very smart!!!!

[@elliegeorgiaxo]

@10teppal i understand, just on this one he's memorised the letter's and shape's.

[@colonelsanders764]

Anyone know the name of the song that keeps playing? Thx

[@yalhooo]

this horse comes off to me as being so spoiled with all these treats.. and he just memorized patterns, mix up the orders more.

[@Lilmissspip]

what kind of treats do you use?

[@durka69420]

Now thats a smart horse

[@baylynjoyce4766]

Jim key is the smartest horse that ever lived

[@RickyJr46]

I just started reading the book Beautiful Jim Key, it's marvelous.

[@drreiserer]

Definitely a trick, the trainer is giving the horse hand cues (even pushing the horse's muzzle). It's obvious during the counting exercise. This horse does not know the letters, shapes, or numbers, it just knows positions and is cued by the trainer on which position to touch. If the horse can spell and count, let's see him do a whole word or number sequence without a treat between each correct answer.

[@johnnyhaiku8521]

Im noticing how quiet your voice is and the horse is picking up on every cue. Please explain!

[@GuardianAzure]

This kind of claim isn't new. In the 80s or 90s, there was a man who claimed his horse could do complex math and would demonstrate by stomping out the correct answer. It was in fact proven that when the horse began stomping, his trainer would unconsciously bow his head in hope/expectation/whatev, and then raise his head once the horse had reached the correct stomp, which signaled the horse to stop. Remove the trainer, and the stomps became random.

[@hansen167]

also.. the letters, numbers and shapes all were in the same location.. did she just teach the horse to follow the pattern? just an observation!

[@manolisxirouhos7476]

Good Horseee

[@sockpuppety]

ha ha, I just replied to similar comment above! This is like Clever Hans (but I think Hans was probably cleverer...) and I agree it's silly to say Lucas can count or spell. Maybe he can't read words, but I suppose we could say he can read cues from his human? ;o)

[@Typhoon250]

@elliegeorgiaxo And the numbers aren't in the same order so i guess that blows your theory out of water, Lukas is awesome.

[@horsesawesome1092]

He's just obedient.

[@09280215]

I love your horse you should try the bitless riding and training, with no pain

[@Cowetasquirt]

HOW DO YOU TRAIN HIM!!! I mean I try to teach my horse to spell her name and she knocks the table over!

[@Rissaa03]

it looks like she's pushing his head towards the direction of each of the numbers if you look closely!

[@cassehbbz]

why does he have over reach boots on his back feet?

[@Eloisemae28]

So clever!

[@katemalone8018]

i think hes pretty cool he looks gorgous he is really smart i think people who leave hateful comments are just jealos but i think trksrabbitry is wrong about children some children hav kind hearts -_-

[@breannahunt1278]

I think that the horse is very smart but you wanted him to touch the shapes that were the same pattern or place as his name...?

[@glynisp8868]

The hand pushing towards the letters/numbers/symbols is way too obvious.

[@elliegeorgiaxo]

@Typhoon250 the thing is, i never said lucas wasn't awesome. he's a well trained horse, way more then my horse is. but, he's memorised the letter's and shape's.

[@pups_ie]

Is Lucas still alive?

[@niamhboc1011511]

i agree with you but she's not doing the in the same order she says them over again if you understand me

[@bab3station]

Anymore else notice how she slightly pushes its head towards the correct thing?

[@maggietang4847]

i never seen he races video

[@hannahwolf8772]

Do you ever RIDE him

[@Tonnesoflostthoughts]

She's probably looking at the figures and letters and numbers so the horse watch where she's looking

[@Naatje202]

Ze heeft de plaatjes het zelfde liggen als de letters die ze gebruikte dus eugelijk doet hij het zelfde als ze naam "spellen"

[@nadiasokolova0]

he is so cute

[@elliemayhutchinson4833]

Hes not smart he might be like one of them movie horse that know what to do and when cuz the letters where same order as the shapes. And can this horse open he field gate and walk him self into his stable? And can he unbolt his stable door to go in field and can he get what u ask him to like if ur grooming him will he pass u the body brush on comand?? Cuz my friends horse rocky does all of them!

[@carlbelken4478]

Years ago a horse named Bess who belonged to MGM in Hollywood could do what you just described except for the part about passing the body brush. That horse knew about 500 words. I notice that the horse in this YT video is rewarded with food each time he does something. I'd be far more impressed if it was done without a reward. I'd bet your friends horse does not do it for a reward. I learned about Bess by watching a TCM movie short just a few minutes ago.

[@elliemayhutchinson4833]

My friends horse does not get a reward he is aloud to do this. He migt be big but dosnt get spooked easly and is VERY well behaved.

[@Wolftwins9899]

He is sooo smart and cute. I have a breyer horse (toy small horse =$60. That looks like him and the toy horses name is Red and there was a horse and my barn that looked like him and her name was Penny. Cute horse.

[@SweetFluffyMonster]

She's pushing his head on the square with propetly number or letter -,-

[@oscammed7712]

True but that’s how he learns

[@meREDRUM]

I'm sure someone has already mentioned, but you can clearly see she cues the horse by pushing his nose towards the number/shape/letter she wants him to touch. The horse doen't pay any attention to the shape/number/letter. Cool technique though. I respect her, but I think it's silly and crappy to Claim the horse can count and spell.

[@jillylilly99]

@theZoecarroll well what about the numbers

[@BarrelsPolesandJack]

Cool!

[@mightybooshhorse100]

they should make a breyer of lukas

[@RenderedB312]

She should stop giving him a treat every time though

[@aguedaquintana748]

I wonder if he still alive

[@bigloverxD]

the squares were always in the same order.

[@Dutchfilly1]

This is nothing new and nothing more than training the horse to respond to certain ques. In fact, there is a book about how this was done with another horse. Beautiful Jim Key The Lost History of the World's Smartest Horse Harper Collins

[@JadeHestefrelst]

Wow!