Watching the video, I'm wondering what the "rules of the road" are for carts and carriages. It seems you drive him right into merging traffic so do car drivers know to yield to a carriage? I've driven my pony on our rural roads and while I trust her to be sensible, I do not trust the car drivers to yield to us so I drive her cautiously to make sure some idiot in a truck does not clip us.
@1Jeanne3 Thanks for your comment - we are a training yard for driving horses so in order to make them safe in traffic, we have to drive them in traffic. Although our Highway code (online at direct.gov.uk “Other road users” section 214-215) states that car drivers should treat carriages on the roads as potential hazards and pass wide and slow, sometimes people do not do this. Even if you drive cautiously, sometimes things happen that cannot be predicted.
We train horses to cope with different situations, enabling them to work safely and happily wherever you drive. Trucks can be found on rural lanes too. Other videos show us training horses to tolerate cars driving past at speed whilst sounding the horn. On "Coloured Gelderlander in harness" 2.28, a driver does come past and blast his horn at us - we believe it is better that the horse has been trained to cope with this situation with us, so that if it happened at home, the horse wouldn't panic.
Would you ever consider filming a horse/pair/team from start to finish, as soon as they arrive and then almost everything you do with them? I realise this would be time consuming and I apologise if you have already done this (!) but I think it would be very informative as I really admire the work you do and think you are an excellent horseman! Thanks for doing these videos, they're brilliant and I'm always looking forward to the next one :)
Thanks for your comment. It is a good suggestion and we have tried it before, however what we believe is every horse is an individual and the best way of training one horse may be entirely unsuitable for another. When we filmed a horse before from the beginning a while ago, people assumed that it was "our method" and what we did with every horse. We don't believe you can write a book about how to break horses, as the "A-Z" method may not be the best method for every horse.
So for this reason we make the films to show their owners what they have achieved during their time with us, not to be a "how to break" video. If people are having a certain problem with training their own horse, we are always willing to help via email or over the phone. It is lovely to hear what people think of our training and if people learn something from watching them that helps them or their horse then that's great, but that is why we don't film horses from start to finish.
Watching the video, I'm wondering what the "rules of the road" are for carts and carriages. It seems you drive him right into merging traffic so do car drivers know to yield to a carriage? I've driven my pony on our rural roads and while I trust her to be sensible, I do not trust the car drivers to yield to us so I drive her cautiously to make sure some idiot in a truck does not clip us.
1Jeanne3 8 months ago
@1Jeanne3 Thanks for your comment - we are a training yard for driving horses so in order to make them safe in traffic, we have to drive them in traffic. Although our Highway code (online at direct.gov.uk “Other road users” section 214-215) states that car drivers should treat carriages on the roads as potential hazards and pass wide and slow, sometimes people do not do this. Even if you drive cautiously, sometimes things happen that cannot be predicted.
barryhook2 8 months ago
We train horses to cope with different situations, enabling them to work safely and happily wherever you drive. Trucks can be found on rural lanes too. Other videos show us training horses to tolerate cars driving past at speed whilst sounding the horn. On "Coloured Gelderlander in harness" 2.28, a driver does come past and blast his horn at us - we believe it is better that the horse has been trained to cope with this situation with us, so that if it happened at home, the horse wouldn't panic.
barryhook2 8 months ago
Would you ever consider filming a horse/pair/team from start to finish, as soon as they arrive and then almost everything you do with them? I realise this would be time consuming and I apologise if you have already done this (!) but I think it would be very informative as I really admire the work you do and think you are an excellent horseman! Thanks for doing these videos, they're brilliant and I'm always looking forward to the next one :)
ClipClopxox 10 months ago
Thanks for your comment. It is a good suggestion and we have tried it before, however what we believe is every horse is an individual and the best way of training one horse may be entirely unsuitable for another. When we filmed a horse before from the beginning a while ago, people assumed that it was "our method" and what we did with every horse. We don't believe you can write a book about how to break horses, as the "A-Z" method may not be the best method for every horse.
barryhook2 10 months ago
So for this reason we make the films to show their owners what they have achieved during their time with us, not to be a "how to break" video. If people are having a certain problem with training their own horse, we are always willing to help via email or over the phone. It is lovely to hear what people think of our training and if people learn something from watching them that helps them or their horse then that's great, but that is why we don't film horses from start to finish.
barryhook2 10 months ago
@barryhook2
Thats very right, Barry.
No horse or pony is the same.
hackneysaregreat 10 months ago