Re-schooling a stallion that kicked.
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- čas přidán 3. 09. 2011
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This Friesian stallion was sent to us to be reschooled and put in single. He was going on to do commercial work; we show him working in single and also as a leader in a tandem, showing that he would not kick even when the other horse is pushed right up on his quarters. When breaking horses to drive, we believe in teaching them to cope with different situations that could occur whilst in harness. In this case, we had to train this horse to tolerate another strange horse behind him, and not to kick out.
He's a beauty. Beautifully behaved too.
@CrimsonInHumanBlood - It is called a "cow collar". For horses with full, thick manes such as Friesians or those who slip their headcollars off easily (as this stallion did), we put these on as well, so if they manage to get their headcollar off, the cow collar will still keep them secured.
You are right in saying he wouldn't have been able to run far before he started to tire, and he definitely wouldn't have been able to pull that carriage very far to start with, but we increased his fitness and the weight of the carriage until he was able to work with this one. He did the same training in the other 3 carriages to make sure he would not kick as well.
Good boy, exellent training again.
I'm so impressed with how you work with horses and the results you get with them,
Well done as always, my friend.
@barryhook2 You do such great work. You take care of yourself. The equine world needs you.
You have some bottle. I would have honked up looking over that motorway bridge ;]
@userunavailable3095 Thanks for your comment - the purpose of putting him in this carriage was to teach him to pull. He had already been partly broken before coming to us, and was very lazy. He was going on to do commercial work so our plan was to work him up through 4 different carriages, gaining a bit of weight each time, allowing him to build up his fitness too. This film shows him at the end of his training in the largest carriage, which he could pull happily without sweating for 3 miles.
@hyperfocus2011 No - we believe every horse is an individual and his training must be undertaken with this in mind. A suitable method for one may be entirely unsuitable for another; how we trained this horse may not be how we'd train another with the same problem. When we have shown our initial training before, whether it is breaking or re-schooling, people assumed that was what we did with every horse, which is not the case. This film is for his owners to see how he is after our training.
Awesome job! :))))
@hyperfocus2011 In the initial stages of reschooling, both Barry and myself are focused on training the horse - it is hard to do this whilst holding a camera (the horse is our main priority!) Sometimes despite writing in the description of the video, or explaining something in the audio commentary, people do not understand or take it in. As I said before, this film shows him at the end of training so his owners could see his progress prior to collection as they live quite far away from us.
I see part of your strategy there. He might run with that wagonette, but he wouldn't run far before he was totally winded, unless he just happened to be going downhill at the time. Nothing like real work to settle a horse down.
What is the yellow thing on his neck?
you dont show the beginning???
@barryhook2 thats fine but why dont you write that its not for the rest of the world. I know not every horse is the same. Ive retrained broblem horses for 20 years.