ROAD TO THE FUTURITY FINAL EPISODE

[@bretboudreaux777]

Watching this one is bitter sweet... I hope this type of content keeps coming! Great insight on what it takes to create a futurity horse. Keep up the great work Matt Mills and the video staff

[@mattmillsreining1]

I'm glad you enjoyed it and are wanting more!

[@1madtaz]

Boy things have really progressed in 50 Years that I have been following reining and riding them. A friend that I used to train for and would help a little qualified for the NHRA in Non pro with 2 different horses. He was too busy with harvest to go. My friend amd I said we would take care of cattle and drive trucks whatever. He died end of July an hour after roping and doctoring a calf. Don't put off your dreams! He was like a brother to me for fifty years and fit as a fiddle slim but family genetics caught up with him.

[@itsemilee1502]

Absolutely love the videos! Please continue showing the good & the bad. I learn a lot seeing how y'all work through issues.

[@mattmillsreining1]

It's Emilee, just keeping it real! Thanks for watching! More vids on my website too @mattmillsreining.com

[@itsemilee1502]

@@mattmillsreining1 I'll check it out!

[@mattmillsreining1]

It's Emilee, awesome! 😎.

[@CC-xk6cp]

Hi again MATT This has been a great series. Still working through all your vids and enjoying every minute. Greatly appreciate your way of thinking and your training methods. Thx for all you do to share your life with the horses...

[@mattmillsreining1]

My pleasure. Thank you

[@thomashowlin4353]

Great job, first time watching reining horses, beautiful and fascinating, thank you !

[@mattmillsreining1]

Thank you. My pleasure. Amazing what they allow us to teach them

[@marcosfiorotto4715]

Thank you for sharing this series! The ones who love horses, like I do, but can't live off then, like you do, should be thankfull for the chance to join you in this ride !!!! It's only a shame that it is not translated, so more people could watch it in Brazil, but I know that is not your fault.

[@mattmillsreining1]

Obrigado! Glad you watched!

[@KennedyWilliams2026]

This series was awesome to watch keep doing it!!

[@mattmillsreining1]

HorseGirl _, thanks!! I’m so fortunate to do what I love for a living!

[@KennedyWilliams2026]

Matt Mills see u at the next futurity I’ll be in the 13 and under - Kennedy Williams

[@mattmillsreining1]

HorseGirl _ awesome! Make sure you come by my stalls and say hi! 💰💰🤙🏾💯

[@KennedyWilliams2026]

Matt Mills alrighty see u there!!

[@equineguru08]

This was a cool series. Thanks for doing it! Would love to see another season of it.

[@mattmillsreining1]

I appreciate you watching it! Tried to keep it real!

[@lilmzjinx]

This has been such a great series and we’ve learned so much about reigning from you! Looking forward to seeing what happens this year. Cheers! Theresa, JahQuez & Jonathan 🤠🐴

[@mattmillsreining1]

Thanks for watching! I’ve got some great prospects for this year as well, can’t wait to introduce them to you all! 〽️〽️

[@mattmillsreining1]

I'm so glad that you learned and enjoyed it! I'm excited to share with you on how they're all doing and what's next for them. I'm also looking forward to introduce my prospects for the 2020 Futurity.

[@monicap1717]

Beautiful!! Dude i just Love this channel. With Bonnie I saw the almost trot also. But all i wanna do is water the arena..lol...You the man!👏

[@mattmillsreining1]

It’s therapeutic

[@rkperformancehorsemanship]

Thank you very much Matt Mills and your team for hard work and amazing videos.

[@mattmillsreining1]

It was a lot of work but we really enjoyed doing it!

[@kamim4981]

obsessed with this series! keep them coming please!

[@jessedavis7555]

Wifey is brutally honest but that’s awesome 😎 When so much is on the line honesty is everything 👍🏼

[@britta3733]

One would like to think if they do everything right, prepare themselves and their horse, it will all be great, or, there won't be problems. This showed me that even professionals face their share of challenges, the importance of being flexible or having a Plan B, and don't beat yourself up over things when they go wrong. Thanks Matt!

[@mattmillsreining1]

👊🏾💯〽️

[@ninahalvorson9451]

Matt, this series was a fantastic representation of the reining futurity and all that goes into training our reiners. It was my first year attending Oklahoma city qualifying for the NAAC, and was a fantastic experience, visited your stalls too! Hope to see you there sometime, and I hope you continue video series like this in the future! (I'm west coast too! Washington state)

[@mattmillsreining1]

Thank you Nina I really appreciate your feedback, glad you liked it! 〽️〽️

[@janicedorsey8070]

Love watching you ride!

[@WolfindenFox]

Thank you for this serie! Im doing my own journey to the futurity in Denmark this fall. Im no pro, but you really inspired me!

[@mattmillsreining1]

You're very welcome! I wish you the best of luck, keep me posted on the progress of your journey. If you ever have any training questions don't hesitate to message me on FaceBook or Instagram.

[@WolfindenFox]

@@mattmillsreining1 Thank you so much Matt! Im very thankful for that offer!

[@Rebelgirl-kv6bd]

I absolutely love Bonnie so much!!

[@mattmillsreining1]

She’s so cool

[@Rebelgirl-kv6bd]

@@mattmillsreining1 She absolutely is very cool!! Is she still always trying to buck you off, lol??

[@hallyandhidalgo]

Me too. 💕 She has so much try and style.

[@heatheryoung9938]

❤ this horse !!!

[@famousdex7327]

Great content love these episodes

[@mattmillsreining1]

I really appreciate it! Tried to keep it real!

[@nicolaspodetti...]

Thanks for sharing the behind the scene moments !

[@mattmillsreining1]

You bet, we really enjoyed dong it. 👍🏾〽️〽️

[@karissaequine4778]

Loved this series!!! The ins and outs shown was so cool! My next question would be, what happens to the three after the futurity?

[@mattmillsreining1]

Glad that you liked it! Carmine has completely healed from the complications of his gelding. Bonnie is having some much deserved time off enjoying her turn out time. Partner and Thiago are looking forward to the show season starting. We have started riding Peaches to get her back in shape after her time off. Curry is doing fantastic! You can go to my instagram and see a short video of him running and stopping HUGE!

[@mattmillsreining1]

They came home from the show and had some much deserved time off relaxing and enjoying turn out time. They are back at it now getting ready for the 2020 show season.

[@keenenalex6636]

Im officially a fan

[@cjreyes22]

What you have in black aqha for reining

[@victoriaoneal2169]

Matt - do you prefer a mare, stallion or gelding? Which sex gives you the most, from your experience.

[@jeanfish7]

@ Matt, please don't take offense, but what is your ancestry? We had " Mills ranch" outside of Weed ca...Poco Bueno stock:)

[@33cadbury]

How deaf is Bonnie?

[@mattmillsreining1]

💯. She can’t hear a thing!

[@carolchristiansen8844]

Bunny is really nice. She is trying my patience though.

[@peightonstorm1053]

They are so beautiful

[@Queensley]

Is this abuse? Do horses like this? Curious!

[@annikavanderbroek2069]

the horses are so insanely talented by their breeding alone so most of what you see is just Matt fine tuning their natural abilities. As you've seen throughout the series, the horses who don't have the determination to be show horses don't perform as well, so like Peaches, they get time off and perhaps and different career. So long story short, no this is nowhere near abuse :)

[@Queensley]

Annika Vander Broek I just started watching and getting into horseback riding and wanted to make sure I wasn’t do anything wrong. Thank you so much for the information. 💕

[@dianepeoples3902]

Why do they hang there head down so low? It looks so unnatural?

[@itsemilee1502]

Most horses tend to do it as they become more fit and soft in the bridle. You show them a couple times with tools (training fork or draw reins) and they just kinda hold onto that knowledge usually. I would argue that no horse discipline is "natural". I'm certain this talented trainer does not need critique from those of us who simply do not compare.

[@RoanAndRoaming]

Horses will hang their head when relaxed and loose throughout the body, they also lift the base of their neck and back for collection to really engage the hind end :)

[@vandemanferretstasmania.ni9576]

Two things I’m finding more and more disappointing in reigning as time goes on, is that the heads are getting too low and their feet are getting sloppy. Judges want to see this, and it’s getting ridiculous. Head and neck should be nice and even in a straight line from poll to tail. The feet should be clear, clean and concise not looking like they’re tripping or sedated. 2007 Reserve Champion, Big Chex To Cash was a gorgeous performance

[@RoanAndRoaming]

Honestly I think dressage and western pleasure have that the worst. Dressage leaves the backend behind and only cares for how high the front legs can go, while pleasure lopes so slow that the horses use their head to transiton weight. Reining seems to be on the better side, their head low comes from either genetics or relaxed working, very few gadgets ever needed. Worked on loose reins and soft to aids. Pleasure usually use a lot of gadgets to get the horses head to stay even, while dressage likes to rollkur a lot. Keep in mind these are babies. They're gonna be nervous and clumsy

[@jeanfish7]

I still have a problem with the " tucked" neck....in the old days, ranch horses were WATCHING the cattle, not the ground

[@jeanfish7]

" what do you do with a stubborn female?" Sing to " drunken sailor "

[@peightonstorm1053]

She is so beautiful

[@alexxthomas1702]

This horse will think about trotting at the top of the circles as long as you 2 point ride the circles. Stop riding the front of the horse. Sit in the middle and ride the lope from the back of the horse.

[@mattmillsreining1]

Thank you for your opinion

[@jeanfish7]

That bald face is a SPINNER!:)

[@mattmillsreining1]

Yes she is!!! And the sweetest personality