Patreon video: Deet's a little argumentative

Deet's today was just a little on the argumentative side! He was stiff, unwilling to bend and just kind of telling Mike he was not in the mood to work today. He never really does anything bad, but he was not a really willing boy today. He is a sweet horse, very mouthy, always into something if he can reach it.
He has such a great rear end on him. He really pushes off with it in his ground exercises. He did groundwork really well until the flex and today he was not too interested in flexing. He was not interested in bending either.
As Mike continued to work with him and continued to move his feet asking for the bend, he became softer. Mike wants the horse to hold the bit in his mouth and not push with his head on the bit. Today Mike made a believer out of Deet's that he has to move without trying to take the bit away from Mike. At the end they made several rounds where Deets kept his head still and it looked great! So, progress came today, as it usually does with careful hands and feet and proper timing of the release. This is a typical training session with a young horse. Going to be a nice horse with very nice gaits.

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Good to hear & see you discuss release of pressure. So many colt starters we have seen have little or know understanding of proper timing of release. Personally we prefer to get onboard a new horse for the 1st time bareback with no saddles or pads. Also have never used spurs either. You`re use of the spurs was gentle & not abusive in the least. Your correction also was done with patience & just enough pressure & release to work well. With our present farm Thoroughbred sire seeing as he was by a Kentucky bred stakes winning sire as well as having Seattle Slew lines in him, we figured he might prove interesting to teach to ride! He was. We utilized mother nature`s high temps of 110F for several days to accustom him to being ridden outside of barn. He was well taught & ground trained in barn aisle ways 1st. 1st time outside is when we found out what kind of horse we had! Never blew up or crow hopped or bucked. Was a head slinger! We would ignore the head slinging & eventually with coaxing & patient encouragement + 110F temps he would figure out it was easier to walk around front farm of farm. It took several hours & a couple of days for him to quit the head slinging. He now is a great ground covering riding horse with tremendous ground covering strides.Sometimes faster to get to my neighboring farmers shop on him than driving. Of course since his sire & dam are no longer alive like your colt here he is somewhat special. He is now 21 & has provided us with many good & intelligent good tempered horses for people to enjoy. Had a family pickup one of his fillies on Saturday. When he eventually passes we will miss him! Everyday I hug him & scratch his favorite places like his ears & rump & shoulders.

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