Teaching a Fidgety horse to stand to be saddled.

[@dorothearoles9948]

With technology you have to learn by using it so no worries! I love that you care enough about your audience to take the trouble!

[@catherinedemick1103]

I 2nd that, coming from a very limited tech savvy wired brain!

[@RitaSweet-k4b]

Your respect for the individual horse is incredible. Thank you for educating the horse and your viewers in your thought process and actions. Your patience and intuition are lessons for us all.

[@annamcgeagh8104]

I really appreciate how you are working with Saber and that you appreciate the difference in Arabians. I also appreciate that you don’t have a bias against them. I own one and they are always thinking. I have had 3 over the years and I love the breed.

[@cathynumrich9005]

I love watching your training but can't get over how beautiful that horse is. He should be in the movies.

[@Cattywampus46]

Your camera is really nice -- sharp resolution and great color.

[@careycroft8648]

Wow he is a lot calmer. Quite a difference.

[@juliehmidmo]

Nice to see him standing, focused and quiet. You can get an impression of what his potential is. Big change.

[@Nembula]

I'm a new subscriber and have watched several of your videos. Most of them Sabre's as I have a soft spot for a rehabing Arabian. My last horse was a gifted Arabian which was an 'I can't give him away' dangerous horse. I spent a lot of my time just backing him up from places he couldn't bowl me over. So I really appreciate that you have spent time and effort making his lessons easy for him. Winning should be easy for them if you want to move forward rapidly. I admire your methods and I like the conversation you are developing with Saber. Lord he is lovely to behold!

[@aimeeelliott7608]

How could anyone NOT love horses after watching Sabre?! He’s beautiful! And when he starts his prancing and strutting? O man! Gorgeous! Just how everyone sees a horse when they start dreaming about getting one. Glad you show how much work it takes to train a high energy horse!

[@Tam-Solo70]

Wow! Getting so fancy with the recording! We greatly appreciate all your time, effort and money you put into this for us. THANK YOU! The camera angel is great, great quality, and can hear you perfectly! I really like the idea of putting around all the items for distractions from other distractions…cool idea. He is doing SO much better!

[@toriwolf5978]

Love the saber videos ❤❤❤best channel on KZbin about horse training…..

[@user-jwill]

Very nicely done live show with of course the perfect horse for it. 👌👌

[@zachansen8293]

4:50 the cat just comes in and lets you know exactly how much he respects your stream.

[@thedirtprincess3293]

I love seeing the cat!!!😂

[@jennyrenken8451]

I love your covered work area. I enjoy watching and learning. I've incorporated a couple of things with my new horse. -- My heart horse that I had for 20 years passed in August. (A Tennessee Walker/Fox trotter cross.) A week later I found an incredible deal on a well trained Rocky Mountain horse. My old horse was more whoa than go. The new one is more go than whoa. It's a whole new game for me. I'm 73. You are teaching this "old dog" some new tricks. I've got a new "heart horse." Thank you for your wonderful videos.

[@Hoofprint25]

This is great, love your videos. Now you're live....Awesome!

[@Kharris92130]

Yes, the moving away wasn’t getting him out of being saddled, so he’s trying biting, another tactic. 13:45

[@mrs.foster3303]

Looks great!! And sounds is good too!! 👍🏻🙏🏻

[@gail2283]

Watched the replay - I learn so much from your videos - leaving obstacles on the ground is such a great training tool - I dont have an arena but I now walk and trot my horse around and over obstacles - what a difference it has made in her paying attention to her feet and surroundings. Great job. Thank you. (SE coastal NC)

[@pagejohnson2316]

great live set up. i enjoy seeing how sabre's anxiety has come way down and how your training plan is going.

[@donnac.1609]

A lot to be accomplished by paying attention to each horses behavior. Working around to avoid a fight gains much more ground and a positive outcome even if that particular session is shorter than others! Sabre is responding to your approach and really getting to understand want you expect from him! Watching him handle his attention during this session was great. He maybe celebrating his new found life by nipping😊 and of course his high energy can enhance that type of behavior!

[@AmandaDoll-hi4dr]

Tim, you are doing a good job with it. Have fun doing it. Good luck

[@gregnormandin7037]

I like how you give a straight forward and logical explanation of what and why you are doing it this way 👍🏻

[@james-we6fr]

Wish you had been around when I was much younger. LOL

[@JuliaJulia007]

This new set up is looking good. You may decide to mic up your helper as some creators do. You can ask for next question without interrupting your lesson. 😊

[@malindaryan2091]

Good idea! I didn't like interrupting! I mentioned to him wearing an earpiece to hear me, but we thought he'd be able to read the comments himself. Hopefully, the video was easier to see than last week! We'll get the kinks worked out with a little more experience:) Thanks for the suggestion!

[@TheStephanie9557]

He's so calm in this one.

[@swysocki3920]

It was really good to see and hear how you dealt with the nipping today and the logic behind your actions. It makes total sense when you explain it so well. It's also good to see how we, as riders and trainers of our horses need to be as focused on our horses as we expect them to be on us. It can only help to apply this way of thinking as you move along in both the relationship we hope to have and the training goals we hope to accomplish.

[@sarahturner8625]

Love that the cat came to help and give you another distraction to work with! 😂

[@Kharris92130]

Love the cat cameo!

[@francesn33]

Saber is becoming so settled.

[@KerryDior]

Tim I see a huge improvement with Saber in standing when being saddled. ❤

[@hhlagen]

Great job as always. Thank you,

[@deespillman2104]

Sorry I missed the live but it's all a learning process. It's going to be awesome..Can't wait to see the next live.

[@Thewitchesflame]

Wasn't able to make the live but I love this. It's amazing for the hubs and I to be able watch. Love your dialog. Being able too see the progress with these horses. Hubs was raised here in MS on a farm, cows, crops, cotton, his horse. We love the channel, continued success for you all❤.

[@MalindaRyan-xi7et]

That’s neat! Where about in MS was he raised? Thanks for watching!

[@Thewitchesflame]

@@MalindaRyan-xi7et He was raised in what they call Coy Community, on the line between kemper co & neshoba county. Technically Preston.

[@catherinedemick1103]

Was not able to watch live either so appreciate being able to watch it in replay and read comments. Love your board and cones circle, such a simple but effective way to keep an Arab focused, brilliant. So much calmer than in previous videos of him I have watched. Nippiness was a bit of a issue with my half Arab when he was anxious about something in his younger years too.

[@kellylee5235]

This is amazing!! Thank you for doing this!

[@Conniegosling-ur1hl]

So much improvement! Do you think some of the new nipping is the horse becoming more confident and settled in and a little bit of pushback on his part?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Probably some that abd some excess energy because all of this was right out of the stall and no turn out to burn energy.

[@thedirtprincess3293]

This was awesome. Couldnt be here for the live but watched on replay. I get a lot out of your conversations about the order of training. Any time you can talk about the whys of that, i will be grateful. Like you didn't worry with standing still to saddle until after he got interested in cows. So my guess: once he has a reason to think saddling might mean something fun, he will relax about it and you can work on the finesse. Totally okay if im dead wrong, but im trying to learn to think about these things.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

I generally do teach to stand still while saddling from the beginning but for this horse I didn;t think that was best for him.

[@nadinehulbig5582]

Nice video, shame I missed it, but I will try again next week. 😊

[@Conny226]

Awesome ❤

[@marilynbridges8697]

Sabre is so gorgeous!

[@peterneilsen6249]

Good morning guys, Sorry missed live .a bit too early for me in Australia. but you cant please every one, thanks for video Tim .good job Melinda. sound is great . light was good for me,😄

[@malindaryan2091]

Thank you! Wish there was a time that was convenient for all!

[@teresaedwards1591]

He's going to be a good boy ❤

[@kathysharratt1522]

Hello Tim, I have really been enjoying your videos and your approach to training is a lot of common sense and no nonsense which I like. Thank you

[@francesn33]

That was great.

[@suezettehollinger9804]

I have learned so much by your videos. Thank you so much for caring and sharing so much really important information and how you think out a process. I have a rescue horse that I have spent the last year getting sound. Now that he is, when he leads he sometimes bolts. It is a big problem, and he is 14.3 and very stocky with a shorter thick neck which makes it even header for me to control. I have gone back to basics of stopping and backing up and getting his head in the game with me and not what he wants. (I learned that from you.) Is there any small routines that you think my help me? Thank you, so much.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

In general just give him something to do.

[@suezettehollinger9804]

Thant make sense, okay. . @@timandersonhorsetraining

[@allisonconley6339]

Gotta love technology 😅😅😅😅😅

[@PatsyPrice-t4h]

Arabians are lunged in a circle and the whip/stick is used by raising it vertically to teach them to reach their nose toward it to stretch their necks so that trait is shown. Will he have to been trained that your stick is to change directions?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

That is training for certain classes. That is not what we want with Sabre.

[@catherinedoherty2025]

You are very tech savvy! No rush, be easy on yourself!

[@teresaedwards1591]

You've done a excellent job 👏 Arabians are hard to get there but they do with patience. I like not picking your battles it's what is working at the time take steps one at a time 😊

[@Gingerwalker.]

I notice that with some horses you give them less or seemly no time to stop, release and think about, or absorb, the current lesson as much as others. Other than breed, what do you see in a horse that makes you decide what level of thinking time the individual horse needs? Same question to do with how much verbal reward or petting you choose to give an individual horse. Some horses you are more rewarding to than others. Thank you ahead of time.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Good you noticed that. The difference is in how much the horse is trying to figure out what I am asking. I will give a horse that is thinking and trying more time than a horse that is not.

[@Gingerwalker.]

@@timandersonhorsetraining Thanks Tim. That is good to know. I appreciate you letting us inside your head. ;)

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

@@Gingerwalker. you wouldn't want to stay in my head too long, probably scary in there. Lol.

[@Gingerwalker.]

@@timandersonhorsetraining Same here. LOL

[@malindaryan2091]

@@timandersonhorsetraining 🤣🤣🤣

[@lydiagould3090]

Sadly I missed the live stream. Is it at the same time? How do I know when it.s going to happen? Sorry if I've missed something .

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

We are trying for between 9:00 & 9:30 central time every Thursday morning.

[@lydiagould3090]

@@timandersonhorsetraining 👍

[@cinm9565]

Doing great!

[@lindaj5492]

Was this before or after his time with Bob? Just heard you say he’d been out with Bob: hope his improving behaviour continues!

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

This was the next day after he was out wit Bob.

[@francesn33]

Do you find it more difficult to keep Arabians feet still more than other breeds?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Yes. Plus you have to approach it a totally different way than a quarter horse.

[@francesn33]

Had several. Just validating. I overlooked alot of that to my detriment later. This why I am just devoted to your methods. Building blocks and logic

[@finngamesknudson1457]

You described helping horse get back on its feet when it was stuck on its back with saddle on. How do you minimize risk of getting kicked if horse thrashes around? Seems like in panic they’d be likely to injure you.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

The dangerous part of a panicking horse is them coming to you for help.That is why the most dangerous part of first saddling is getting trampled. It's not that the horse wants to hurt you, its that the horse want you to help them. The next video of Breeze I am letting her get in a bind then teaching her to her let me help her.

[@lydiagould3090]

Maybe the nipping thing will go away on it's own as he starts doing more , and when his mind is focused. Hopefully he can spend more time out with his friend and play biting games together.

[@Kharris92130]

What did you do when Saber put his mouth on you at 22:12? I couldn’t see in the video. My four year old mare likes to do this.

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

He reacted to me pulling my hand away. He'll need to be worked with this but today was not the right time.

[@bordergirl]

Damn, he sure is a pretty horse though

[@georgiascott5779]

I noticed the metal ring on the halter and lead line. Is that your add on and if so, why?

[@arribaficationwineho32]

I missed the live but am curious what the owners are planning to use him for?

[@retiredairforce5111]

Predominantly trail riding.

[@aimeeelliott7608]

👋 I’m a long time horse lover, but have never owned a horse. I’ve seen that you never let the horses rub on you, and I’ve heard some of your safety reasons. Does it ever get to where it’s okay? Since I’m like a 14 year old girl in a $&@## age body, and I know I’d want to hug and rub on any horse I had. Would you just say grow up and do what’s safe? Any comment?

[@timandersonhorsetraining]

Good question. No I'd never say just grow up. Being a kid is great but also being an adult is great too. A hug on a horse is fine, but just like everything else in moderation. One of my lesson horses, Luci hates to be hugged and my horse Mac will wrap his neck around little kids and hug them. Both of them are very respectful of people's space. Bob on the other hand will hug on you, then play with your hair, chew on your clothes, lick you, not always in a respectful way.

[@cherylharless281]

I understand why you don't do it, but I find it so destracting that you don't take a moment to brush off the shavings from his (and every other horse's) mane and tail! I've worked with arabs and part-arabs and they have all been very aware of the feet, I'm surprised he's not. They also tend to be mouthy!

[@malindaryan2091]

The horse gets minimal grooming prior to the lesson, only what's necessary. This is one way the horse knows if it's a work day or a play day. Horses are more thoroughly groomed following the training session. I know you posted you understand, but wanted to make sure you're understanding matched Tim's reason. Also, others may read this and wonder why. He has a video that discusses this in more detail.