 want to get a horse really good at finding a halt and settling settling in so this is another place that people that people don't give their horse a lot of time and he's interested to a point so i'd let him smell it right past the rear bring him to me that's kind of interesting because that is what we did with the brush rub him with that come right past the rear or an arc around draw him to me good it would be possible just like the brush and brushing on the move would be what if i lead ahead and ask him to move his feet and come forward a little bit and i'm purposely bumping him with the pad a little because he is flinchy but this will help prepare me for the girth of my leg and then settle ground out bring your life down to the ground and settle out good that's a little bit windy so we'll go ahead and put the the gel pad here right on and he's a little he's a little bony yet so giving him a little bit of a gel a gel pad arrangement here he's breathing and he's looking at me that's great it's good let i'm letting him just take his time brought that head up a little bit but all in all not too bad i might just step have him step towards me something that we have to do many times is have him draw to us where that saddle come to me if your goal is to just get the saddle on you're going to miss a lot along the way and saddling is really an important an important step to getting your horse calm and for some people saddling they they go for the they go for the girth and they pull up and the horse gets braced they get stiff they pull and then they ride and they wonder why the horse is nervous about their leg and they brace so if i can get this horse to saddle draw around things these little stiff here in the neck so could i just get him to come around a little bit what's he thinking look at those eyes oh it's good and walk away that little step right there he might really calm down and settle in for you and as i approach i'm going to help keep him straight so i'm directing with my lead rope approach give him a little bit of time if i can time it so when he exhales if i could pull up that would be great but i still just nice and loose with the girth it's good i felt good to him here well as i reached up he he got nervous about that now he also felt that girth and he settled in right there you could see the licking and chewing but he felt that girth and he moved he they breathe in and they feel that around their belly sometimes they they get a little surprised good looking for him to just look all right excellent now what if i turn stand up turn lead and look a mounting block excellent ah he felt that he felt that girth there now he did want to oh yeah we'll let him we'll work this here for a second see if we can get smooth motion forward here you see him lift his back up and he's coiled up and he feels that that girth a little bit he can get his belly lifts in right there he got a little smoother i'll walk away i'm careful i'm always able to stop good he's sort of looking and chewing his expressions bright send him off again let's see if he can settle in here a little bit those stirrups are going to fall down and that's that's part of life your leg is going to be down there too so i'm not necessarily asking for the canner it's what he's offering he's trying he's getting smoother so i'll take that notice i step out of the center get out of the middle drawn to me there i would have i will approach when i feel that he settles a little bit more and he brings that life down look at there's not a lot of blinking good there's a little shift he's settling in a little better just adjust that a little bit i know i only have one iron down and that's that's okay we'll get this other iron here in just a second now i'm purposely purposely dropping those irons down i won't do that every session and some people are very bothered by that that you'd let your irons down lunging but then again they're probably the same people that spur their horse in the ribs anyway so this is just something that we need to do so they they get used to this down here it's good it's good looking for smooth movement forward watching i'm looking at the whole horse taking in the whole horse let's get a little more motion a little more life in there see if he can figure out where to put his his feet here he's united at the canner he's still drawn up and intense but it's okay trying to keep just maybe we'll just keep a little canter going here and the idea is smooth motion forward i'll take this all right ready step out of the center draw him in on a horse that's a little bit sensitive like that to the girth i'm you you probably don't want to back him up right now just encourage smooth motion calm relaxation come forward and if you go to back him up he could pull back we don't want to cause that we don't want to have that happen it's good it's good if i step up here maybe he finds a nice place here to settle in take that come a little further good reach up now i'm still able to tip his nose towards me so notice the licking and chewing right there i think he kind of likes that spot on his eye he does like that spot on his rump that i'm rubbing here if he looks away what if i just stand tall and lead him encourage him to lead ahead he'd rather stay with me because he found a place to to rest there but i want smooth motion forward first we'll get that first we'll get forward motion just at the walk is fine now if i reach up we could move that hind quarters a little bring that front end through this is not the place for you to teach your horse to move the hind quarters over and to bring the front end through that you would want to work out on the ground first good look at this see him get ready very important tip here's a little thing for you that's really a big thing at this point when he brings the saddle to me let your arms down let your posture settle like you did on the ground you're not always pulling them to you i'll show you what i mean i see people they get on the block the mounting block and they want that horse to stop so what they do is they pull the horse in and they pull the nose in and what happens is the hind quarters drifts out and then the horse learns to position themselves in such a way that they take the saddle away from you so let me show you this again it's almost like i want him to glide in like i'm docking a boat and so i pull i might direct him in a little bit but then when i know right there i notice he's ready i'll let my arms down