you did an amazing thing my horse WAS unridable but after some time and carrots and some love and lots of time and patience she is now a national showjumping champ and when we are out hunting (im irish) she is the most behaved i have had expierince with schooling horses and i knew potential when i saw it she had everything scope and i love her all horses that are supposed to be unrideable really only need a chance and some ppl like us are able to give it to them and they are so grateful!!!
anyways I love the video, congrats on showing people the impossible sometimes takes the most heartfelt approach. Congrats on training an 'unrideable' =) and I wish you and Fred the best of luck forever more. I have an OTTB and people told me he'd kill me - so far he's done no such thing. 3 years old, out on the trail and doesn't even spook when a deer leaps in front of his face, missing his head by a foot, he's chill like that... usually XD lol.
@FopHunter7 Thanks for the comment, I think the majority of the horses deemed unrideable or un-handleable just need someone to understand them :) I'm lucky Fred and I managed to understand each other in the end.
at shows, and never was winning, and such. She'd been the barn super star, and one season of trouble and they dumped her, like nothing... well yeah if you over work any of them they'll get fed up. I loved that mare, she had such an attitude issue but under saddle, and once she trusted you she gave it everything. Had I known she was being sold I would have told the place I'm at now to buy 'er. They take the 'rejects' and just let them be horses for a bit, no more shows or stress...
Amazing. Sometimes I think there's no such thing as an unridable horse, or a problem horse, or anything of that matter... it really is about creating the bond, and trust and relationship. About showing them it's OK and that everyone makes mistakes, rather than taking it out on them when they do make a mistake. There was a horse at the barn I used to ride, Caramel, she was amazing. But I heard they sold her, or 'got rid of her' - a phrase which scares me a bit - 'cause she was starting to buck -
Well done, it's fab to see someone to understands that horses can be learned from and not just used. My first hack was a Thoroughbred who when u sat on him he would literally find and object and run around it in about a 20 metre circle. . He had a general bad manners and multiple issues. After 2 years now he's an absolute bombproof star and I learnt to much from my special man. If I were to recomaned something please take a look at Klaus Hempfling :)
Beautiful storey, Well done! Sucks that it took so long for someone to realise all he needed is lots of love, care and time spent with him! So good to hear his a good boy and everything now :) <3 Fred!
A lot of horses that are called "unrideable" simply have never been given the chance or had the right person with the patience to teach them. Great job and kudos to you for not giving up on him. :)
@twistedcowgirl11 yeah I agree, but I don't wanna take anything away from Fred's owner she tried everything she could think of and sent him to various specialists.. she loves him a whole lot most people would have had him put down. She sent him to live in France where she could afford to keep him, not many people would commit to paying for maybe 20 years for a horse they rarely saw and couldn't do anything with. Thats why my proudest moment was when she rode him again :) <3
I'm glad that fred found a good friend. Horses truly are a reflection of their owners. Often unrideable horses get that way because their owners let them get that way and it just becomes a worsening downwards spiral. But you obviously got into his head and figured out what kind of training he needed and how to reach him. He's probably not perfect but no horse ever is. They all have their good days and bad. Congrats on a job well done!
loved watching this video, it is amazing the change in him, he seems so happy!
i have just got a pony on loan, hes about 8 but never been backed apart from ridden bareback a bit a few years ago, last winter he had a saddle on for the 1st time (not by me) and someone got on him with a saddle & he threw them off, i think it was because they didnt do enough preparation with the saddle.
@IWnaturally (cont.) people have told me he is 'unrideable' because he through this girl off, but i think he just needs time. he is very RB most of the time, do you think he could one day be rideable with a saddle if i took it at his pace? and any tips? i have videos of him on my other channel, IWnaturally
@IWnaturally hey.. yeah I'm sure he could be rideable unless there's another reason like problems with his back? Have you done any saddle work with him?
I backed a youngster and she was really really nervous of the saddle to start with so I played with her a lot with it on the ground.. letting her pick up an old saddle and throw it around, then started playing some friendly game with it, then got my friend to walk around infront of us with the saddle so that Babou thought she wasdriving it..
@SeonaidGoldie .. then upped that to my friend flapping all the flaps waving it around while still walking away from us. Then I did the same with the saddle while leading babou.. then upped the to swinging it onto her back then straight off again... then upped it to flapping the flaps while on her back.. then put the girth on and made sure she was alright with that swinging around her legs... then started circle game and just leading her around with it on (make sure you wear a hat for that)...
@SeonaidGoldie the once he is okay walking and trotting around with the saddle on, just wear the saddle all the time when you play with him on the ground so he gets used to the feeling of it, do plenty of trotting in circle game and get him to pop a jump with it on. It's a slow process you can't move onto the next step until they're comfortable with one :) I think I have some video clips of me doing it with Babou somewhere I can dig out if you would like to see? I'll have a wee look at your vids
@SeonaidGoldie thank youu! i have started a bit with a bareback pad, so he gets used to something on his back & under his belly without the added weight etc of a saddle, no videos of it though. is the video on here? i shall have a look...
Had a lump in my throat watching this. Myhorse321: get you saddle and your horse's back and teeth checked as soon as possible. I've had spinal concussion from being thrown and it was the saddle fitting...fitted by a supposed master saddler. Shame we can't sue the suckers
Thanks so much, I am really proud of what we achieved! Every little achievment with Fred made me so happy! The first time we cantered I was grinning for hours afterwards!
Hi, I have had a bad accident with my horse that threw me to the ground recently out of the blue by jumping up on all fours and then bucking straight up vertical once his front legs touch the ground.... I got a concussion from this. Anyway, do you have any ideas of why he might be doing this.. And if so any exercises I could be doing to help him? He does it very random, so its hard to say if its pain or just disobeying. -Emma
wow! thats amazing! he looked so happy once you took the time he needed and didnt push him! Its so cool how you trained him to walk and trot beside you one the ground!!! 5 stars!! you deserve it! :)
i had a pony like that she was a devil because every time i rode her i allways got injured by her crazyness lmao, but then i just spent time with her partly because i was to scared to ride her :P, but one day i just jumped on her and flew over a random jump and she had never jumped in her life lol x
what he wear is a type of bridle, it's called a hackamore as it has no bit, this type is a rope hackamore.
It works off of pressure points on his face rather than in his mouth.
He used to be ridden in a bridle, but when I rebacked him I decided to do it in this as we were never going to do anything fancy (dressage or top showjumping) so this worked perfectly :)
thanks for subbing :D, but me and Fred are in different countrys now, so I'll only have vids of him when I go back to France to visit, I have new projects at home now tho, so hopefully you'll like those vids too:)
He is a nice looking horse. Sad no one worked with him for so long. Have you tried getting his saddle fit to him? It is bouncing quite a bit on his back and could likely be a point of irritation and soreness.
Thanks for the comment, yes it is sad but a lot of different people tried things with him at the time, it just never worked out.
This actually isn't his saddle, he is from Jersey and was retired to France and since he wasn't going to be ridden his owner didn't send his saddle with him. I think his saddle was one of the things that got checked out back then and he had a saddle fitted for him.
I don't think this was a cause of pain though, as when he was doing something he enjoyed, like hacking, he would go along with his ears forward and really enjoy himself. And he always lets you know when he is irritated!! lol
His owner is taking his own saddle out next time she goes to France to visit him.
She rode him in the summer and said he was as good if not better than when his troubles started.
Thanks for the suggestion though, your videos are amazing! They were some of the first I watched on youtube, and probably the best Ive found! I referred to some of your videos while I was backing a youngster in the summer. I have a video of her too :)
Thank you very much. (I watched the video of the mare, she is cutie with a very kind eye!) As for Fred, it did not appear to be the root of his issue, but I always like to mention just in case. Certainly don't want misfittings on any horse, but the ones with issues already tend to be even more sensitive to those things. I know it is difficult when the horse doesn't have 'their' tack and you have to fudge things around. I have a grand supply of towels, pads, and half pads for such reasons. ^_^
Lovely video. Great job with him. :)
Naamah1171 1 month ago
you did an amazing thing my horse WAS unridable but after some time and carrots and some love and lots of time and patience she is now a national showjumping champ and when we are out hunting (im irish) she is the most behaved i have had expierince with schooling horses and i knew potential when i saw it she had everything scope and i love her all horses that are supposed to be unrideable really only need a chance and some ppl like us are able to give it to them and they are so grateful!!!
snoopy4aoife 2 months ago
anyways I love the video, congrats on showing people the impossible sometimes takes the most heartfelt approach. Congrats on training an 'unrideable' =) and I wish you and Fred the best of luck forever more. I have an OTTB and people told me he'd kill me - so far he's done no such thing. 3 years old, out on the trail and doesn't even spook when a deer leaps in front of his face, missing his head by a foot, he's chill like that... usually XD lol.
FopHunter7 3 months ago
@FopHunter7 Thanks for the comment, I think the majority of the horses deemed unrideable or un-handleable just need someone to understand them :) I'm lucky Fred and I managed to understand each other in the end.
SeonaidGoldie 2 months ago
at shows, and never was winning, and such. She'd been the barn super star, and one season of trouble and they dumped her, like nothing... well yeah if you over work any of them they'll get fed up. I loved that mare, she had such an attitude issue but under saddle, and once she trusted you she gave it everything. Had I known she was being sold I would have told the place I'm at now to buy 'er. They take the 'rejects' and just let them be horses for a bit, no more shows or stress...
FopHunter7 3 months ago
Amazing. Sometimes I think there's no such thing as an unridable horse, or a problem horse, or anything of that matter... it really is about creating the bond, and trust and relationship. About showing them it's OK and that everyone makes mistakes, rather than taking it out on them when they do make a mistake. There was a horse at the barn I used to ride, Caramel, she was amazing. But I heard they sold her, or 'got rid of her' - a phrase which scares me a bit - 'cause she was starting to buck -
FopHunter7 3 months ago
Well done, it's fab to see someone to understands that horses can be learned from and not just used. My first hack was a Thoroughbred who when u sat on him he would literally find and object and run around it in about a 20 metre circle. . He had a general bad manners and multiple issues. After 2 years now he's an absolute bombproof star and I learnt to much from my special man. If I were to recomaned something please take a look at Klaus Hempfling :)
FireFlyHorzey 3 months ago
I'm sorry.. since when is breaking an animal's will to not be ridden a good thing?
TpendragonT 6 months ago
@TpendragonT
What? Did you even read the description?
Kisumaaku 6 months ago
@Kisumaaku of course i did. and i think it's disgusting
TpendragonT 6 months ago
Just Awesome..Gives me hope :)
MrHorsenaround 7 months ago
well done, Fred you are beautiful and prove you deserved a second chance :)
kimberleyjane1992 7 months ago 2
I love parelli methods, have also adopted other techniques and horse sense with my horses.
Jacqui2343 8 months ago 2
Parelli?
Jacqui2343 8 months ago
@Jacqui2343 Yeah :) A mixture of parelli, other natural horsemanship techniques and other random stuff we came up with :)
SeonaidGoldie 8 months ago
your great at training horses some horses just need to be given a chance xx
peekaboopony123 9 months ago
Beautiful storey, Well done! Sucks that it took so long for someone to realise all he needed is lots of love, care and time spent with him! So good to hear his a good boy and everything now :) <3 Fred!
NarnieeBish 9 months ago
This is beautiful! :')
HorseObsessed97 10 months ago
hats off to you, really inspirational
Horsemadegg 11 months ago 3
A lot of horses that are called "unrideable" simply have never been given the chance or had the right person with the patience to teach them. Great job and kudos to you for not giving up on him. :)
twistedcowgirl11 1 year ago 10
@twistedcowgirl11 yeah I agree, but I don't wanna take anything away from Fred's owner she tried everything she could think of and sent him to various specialists.. she loves him a whole lot most people would have had him put down. She sent him to live in France where she could afford to keep him, not many people would commit to paying for maybe 20 years for a horse they rarely saw and couldn't do anything with. Thats why my proudest moment was when she rode him again :) <3
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago 5
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY troll time ^_^
wolves4545 1 year ago
I'm glad that fred found a good friend. Horses truly are a reflection of their owners. Often unrideable horses get that way because their owners let them get that way and it just becomes a worsening downwards spiral. But you obviously got into his head and figured out what kind of training he needed and how to reach him. He's probably not perfect but no horse ever is. They all have their good days and bad. Congrats on a job well done!
Kimmyloca0 1 year ago
you did an amazing job with him... congrats!
allisonmarie802 1 year ago
loved watching this video, it is amazing the change in him, he seems so happy!
i have just got a pony on loan, hes about 8 but never been backed apart from ridden bareback a bit a few years ago, last winter he had a saddle on for the 1st time (not by me) and someone got on him with a saddle & he threw them off, i think it was because they didnt do enough preparation with the saddle.
IWnaturally 1 year ago
@IWnaturally (cont.) people have told me he is 'unrideable' because he through this girl off, but i think he just needs time. he is very RB most of the time, do you think he could one day be rideable with a saddle if i took it at his pace? and any tips? i have videos of him on my other channel, IWnaturally
oh, i do Parelli by the way ;) thanks :)
IWnaturally 1 year ago
@IWnaturally hey.. yeah I'm sure he could be rideable unless there's another reason like problems with his back? Have you done any saddle work with him?
I backed a youngster and she was really really nervous of the saddle to start with so I played with her a lot with it on the ground.. letting her pick up an old saddle and throw it around, then started playing some friendly game with it, then got my friend to walk around infront of us with the saddle so that Babou thought she wasdriving it..
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago
@SeonaidGoldie .. then upped that to my friend flapping all the flaps waving it around while still walking away from us. Then I did the same with the saddle while leading babou.. then upped the to swinging it onto her back then straight off again... then upped it to flapping the flaps while on her back.. then put the girth on and made sure she was alright with that swinging around her legs... then started circle game and just leading her around with it on (make sure you wear a hat for that)...
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago
@SeonaidGoldie the once he is okay walking and trotting around with the saddle on, just wear the saddle all the time when you play with him on the ground so he gets used to the feeling of it, do plenty of trotting in circle game and get him to pop a jump with it on. It's a slow process you can't move onto the next step until they're comfortable with one :) I think I have some video clips of me doing it with Babou somewhere I can dig out if you would like to see? I'll have a wee look at your vids
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago
@SeonaidGoldie thank youu! i have started a bit with a bareback pad, so he gets used to something on his back & under his belly without the added weight etc of a saddle, no videos of it though. is the video on here? i shall have a look...
IWnaturally 1 year ago
@IWnaturally yeahh that's a good idea! Em there's a wee bit of it in the "backing Babou" video but I can upload more if you would like to see?
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago
@SeonaidGoldie if you wouldnt mind yes please! :)
IWnaturally 1 year ago
@IWnaturally yeah no worries I have some clips of it with fred too i'll have a rake through my vids and throw something together :)
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago
@SeonaidGoldie ahh thank you veryyy much :))
IWnaturally 1 year ago
My horse was unrideable to.
I have him now 2 jears.
Now i'm riding him for the first time alone.
(He is 4 jears now)
We keep'n trying.
Now i love him the most of all.
xLovexmyx 1 year ago 2
@xLovexmyx Sorry for the slow reply that's fantatstic! Keep at it, sounds like you are very devoted to him :)
SeonaidGoldie 1 year ago
Wonderful clip, thanks.
nonomaok 1 year ago
which song is it? (the first one)
RonjaRaeuberstochter 1 year ago
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RonjaRaeuberstochter 1 year ago
from 5:10 till 5:40 is awesome!!!!
zittatje777 1 year ago
Had a lump in my throat watching this. Myhorse321: get you saddle and your horse's back and teeth checked as soon as possible. I've had spinal concussion from being thrown and it was the saddle fitting...fitted by a supposed master saddler. Shame we can't sue the suckers
TansyToo 2 years ago
I wrote you a reply to this but it's not here :S
Thanks so much, I am really proud of what we achieved! Every little achievment with Fred made me so happy! The first time we cantered I was grinning for hours afterwards!
xxx
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
Hi, I have had a bad accident with my horse that threw me to the ground recently out of the blue by jumping up on all fours and then bucking straight up vertical once his front legs touch the ground.... I got a concussion from this. Anyway, do you have any ideas of why he might be doing this.. And if so any exercises I could be doing to help him? He does it very random, so its hard to say if its pain or just disobeying. -Emma
Myhorse321 2 years ago
Hi, ow that sounds really painful, and pretty dangerous if he does it often =/
I really wouldn't be able to say for certain why he could be doing it without seeing it, have you had his back and teeth checked?
What were you doing when he did it? Had you asked him to do something challenging or that he didn't want to do? Or could it have been a bad spook?
If you can try rule out different possibilities (by getting his back checked etc.) it would be easier to pinpoint why he has done it.
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
sorry I can't be of more help but I really wouldn't like to tell you to do something without seeing it and understanding it more...
Seonaid
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SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
wow! thats amazing! he looked so happy once you took the time he needed and didnt push him! Its so cool how you trained him to walk and trot beside you one the ground!!! 5 stars!! you deserve it! :)
lilblackhorse 2 years ago
thanks so much that really means a lot :)
x
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
fantastic you both are amazing well done to you
milliesos 2 years ago
thanks so much :)
x
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
awesome vid x
i had a pony like that she was a devil because every time i rode her i allways got injured by her crazyness lmao, but then i just spent time with her partly because i was to scared to ride her :P, but one day i just jumped on her and flew over a random jump and she had never jumped in her life lol x
luvcherry07 2 years ago
y doesnt he were a bridle?
emilypurnell 2 years ago
what he wear is a type of bridle, it's called a hackamore as it has no bit, this type is a rope hackamore.
It works off of pressure points on his face rather than in his mouth.
He used to be ridden in a bridle, but when I rebacked him I decided to do it in this as we were never going to do anything fancy (dressage or top showjumping) so this worked perfectly :)
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
wow. what an awesome video and an even more amazing and incredible story.
PerfectlyUnperfect25 2 years ago
thankyou very much :)
x
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
thankyou :)
and thanks for subbing
xxx
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
thankyou :)
thanks for subbing :D, but me and Fred are in different countrys now, so I'll only have vids of him when I go back to France to visit, I have new projects at home now tho, so hopefully you'll like those vids too:)
xxx
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
He is a nice looking horse. Sad no one worked with him for so long. Have you tried getting his saddle fit to him? It is bouncing quite a bit on his back and could likely be a point of irritation and soreness.
halfpassgal 2 years ago
Thanks for the comment, yes it is sad but a lot of different people tried things with him at the time, it just never worked out.
This actually isn't his saddle, he is from Jersey and was retired to France and since he wasn't going to be ridden his owner didn't send his saddle with him. I think his saddle was one of the things that got checked out back then and he had a saddle fitted for him.
We used the one we had which fitted him best,
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
I don't think this was a cause of pain though, as when he was doing something he enjoyed, like hacking, he would go along with his ears forward and really enjoy himself. And he always lets you know when he is irritated!! lol
His owner is taking his own saddle out next time she goes to France to visit him.
She rode him in the summer and said he was as good if not better than when his troubles started.
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion though, your videos are amazing! They were some of the first I watched on youtube, and probably the best Ive found! I referred to some of your videos while I was backing a youngster in the summer. I have a video of her too :)
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
Thank you very much. (I watched the video of the mare, she is cutie with a very kind eye!) As for Fred, it did not appear to be the root of his issue, but I always like to mention just in case. Certainly don't want misfittings on any horse, but the ones with issues already tend to be even more sensitive to those things. I know it is difficult when the horse doesn't have 'their' tack and you have to fudge things around. I have a grand supply of towels, pads, and half pads for such reasons. ^_^
halfpassgal 2 years ago
thankyou :) I'm so glad I could make his life a bit more interesting!
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago
you do a wonderful job training horses!
great riding too =)
indianpony90 2 years ago 4
thanks XD
SeonaidGoldie 2 years ago