Soleil's First Ride ... and baby photos

[CaseyHorses]

Great job, but i dont mean to sound like a know it all- i certainly do not know all, but even teaching for them to bear weight you should use a mounting block or stool to get up because its not good for them so young to shift their spine like that,

other wise amazing job, go check out my boy hes 3parts canadian and one part QH <3 i trained him myself too ! :P mad love for the canadian horses <3

[NurturalHorse]

@CaseyHorses

Thanks for the comment. I of course would never climb up that high without a mounting block, but Gerry prefers to have the whole arena to work in to begin. I am raising Soleil's "little brother" for myself, and he is not much shorter.

Canadians are wonderful horses, aren't they! We have too many and are trying to sell them.  The price keeps dropping in this crazy horse 'market' of so many giveaways.

[CaseyHorses]

@NurturalHorse Good luck with his little brother !

i think these horses are worth much more than people think- they are just so hard working ! <3

[suzannelove1]

amazing how to see hwo your horse accepts you on his back, took me a long time to let my horse turs me on her back she has a past so it was dif you give her the confidence that she needed, tho she is a great horse now and i love tho horsebackride with her.

[snowleperdsrule]

Why did you want him to buck? Just curious.

[RobertRyanRanch]

great video, but 2 things I didn't really agree with. first, too much pressure on the horses face. And second, too much weight on one side.

[Hoofbeats123]

Great Video! You see Im seeing how mulitiple people train their horses to let someone rde them and I agree with your techniques their nice to the horse and rider. It makes me feel sad when people just get on a green horse and make them buck out until they cant anymore.

[jebcloney]

good thing you start with gentle horses.

[lazyhorse73]

if you are trying to accomplish getting the horse to except weight, but the horse isnt standing when being mounted then Iwouldnt skip that step. I would work on one thing at a time. Like getting the horse to stand and except your foot in the stirrup. Baby steps.

[lazyhorse73]

I think that you should work on getting him to stand while you are getting your foot in the stirrup. Let him get use to that. SOmetimes we need to take baby steps. I wouldnt get down if they move off. You are rewarding him for doing that. When you were on his back and he was standing nice then I would get down before he moved off.

[kirby137593]

wow what a awsome video i have a foal and it awsome to watch to see how and what i will be dealing with! :D

[NurturalHorse]

Thanks for your comments. He is a Canadian, and they call that colour 'burnt brown'; most often he is pure black, but he can bleach out to a browner tone.

About getting off, Gerry like to take small steps until the horse realizes it won't hurt to let him stay there. If we forced the issue and stayed on at the first try, it would be less pleasant for both!

But we don't claim to be 'right', just that this works for us as amateurs. Zoe

[shieannie101]

hes a very pretty horse. is he a dark bay or a black, its hard to tell from the video. one thing though and i dont mean to start an argument, but i notice that in the begginning of putting weight on him you would jump down when he moved, now from my opinion and other professionals opinion you arent supposed to do that and your supposed to stay on or else the horse will think as soon as he walks you will get off. i am just pointing this out for future knowlegde.

[PiggyDog89]

For god sakes... Get on the dang horse already

[NurturalHorse]

Good question.

We usually ride them a few times at this age, then send them back to grow up for another year. I have read that same approach from some big name guy, (can't remember which one). As long as their knees are closed, light work at this age is OK. We have started several horses gently this way, and they all did just fine.

It seems that what they learn at this age stays with them. But we are not experts! Zoe

[The2crazybirds]

@NurturalHorse you bet, you guys did just fine and we do the same

[alinedejong]

Hello,

Isn`t it a bit young to start a horse at 2 1/2 years of age?? Because their still not full grown at that age..

Just asking..

Greetings, Aline