Success Tips for Training Your Horse

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DUHorseman

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@brollas03ify 6 ай бұрын

I love your bluntness truth Sir. You’re the man.

@elizastar1973 6 ай бұрын

No nonsense, no tree hugging woowoo BS. I'm loving these pearls.

@oliviahentges2890 6 ай бұрын

Man I'm lovin what you're saying about self accountability! Everyone in this country should listen to what you're saying

@enzomahalo2433 5 ай бұрын

Great information Clinton 👍😊🐎

@liezl713 6 ай бұрын

In my specific experience in my country, it's been the other way round, when it comes to RIDING issues, specifically. Ground manners is a different story though. So many people contacted me saying their horse has this or that problem and when I arrived and checked their horses, they were behaving that way because of some sort of pain or discomfort, which 80% of the time WERE the owner/rider's fault (usually ignorance and lack of education). An example: A lady contacted me and said that her horse had a bucking problem. She was very badly hurt, ended up in hospital and had to have surgery after he bucked her off the last time. I did my routine check of the horse and his tack and all was good, so I did some groundwork and rode him with no issues. He was a great horse with decent manners and schooling. When I spoke to her a little more after the session she told me a little bit more about the incident and it all clicked for me. She rode him with her new western saddle that she bought and he bucked her off that day. I put that saddle on his back and THAT saddle was WAAAAAYYYY too narrow, and very poorly made. In a few minutes his "bucking" problem was solved. Another example: My OWN HORSE, before I knew better. I was a very good rider (in the sense that I feared nothing, had buckets full of patience, and sorted out the problem horses, and I could sit a buck. Not at all in the sense that I was doing things the right way, unfortunately.) I backed my horse myself, and I really took my time with her. She could do everything on voice command since she was 2, she could lunge beautifully and I even used her when teaching the students how to lunge. And that was after sorting out a score of behavioral issues with her since I got her as a yearling (She kicked, bit, bolted, was pushy, wouldn't load, terrified of water. Her previous owner "spoiled" her and I managed to get ALL of those behaviors out of her, as I was experienced in doing so with other people's horses. After me sorting her out she was the sweetest and safest horse to be around) BUT she was a bit different under saddle when I backed her as a 3 year old. She'd buck when we started cantering and often ran off blindly after getting a fright. She'd pin her ears in sitting trot and for at least a year I just kept trying to get these behaviors out of her with very little success. I bought a new saddle and had a saddle fitter come to help me choose the right fit and SUDDENLY her bad behaviors under saddle stopped, like literally that day that I rode her with it to test it out with the saddle fitter. That day, my eyes were opened WIDE. And I felt soooooo HORRIBLE for fighting with her for a year, thinking it was bad behavior, when it was the saddle that was hurting her. Through my own damn ignorance, I learned that I should always check those things first before even tackling bad behavior like bucking/running etc. Ground manners, on the other hand, is a whole different story. There I COMPLETELY agree with Clinton.