 this and I'll get this really good so all of our experiences together are nice and calm. Even now I might lead ahead a little and let my arms down but did you notice how I settled in and I really exaggerated that to you. So that's looking pretty nice. Pretty nice. All right at this point maybe I'll back up a step or two. Bring that forehand through and off we go. I'm just about to step off the block here and step down. We'll go past the hindquarters. Bring them around to us and leave the block. Leave that mounting block. So I'm patterning a really great thing which is I come up on the block you get to take a break and then I step off that block and we leave it. There we go. He's looking pretty good here. We'll move to the bridle. I'm still watching him. I'm still able to stop at any time. If I can stop him. If I can stop him. Then I'm able to gain a little space and now we could continue on and lead. I don't mind a little space. He doesn't mind that either. If I turn good we halt. It's looking nice. I see how he's getting coiled and ready to move that hindquarters. Good. Sort of bringing myself back towards the center and maybe even as a bonus near that near that mounting block. That's pretty handy. I'm gonna take our time here. He there. He could get a little softer. He's kind of holding his neck tense. He's a little rigid. Good. Wouldn't mind him just sort of relaxing in here a little bit. So many so many times I'll tell people you might have a goal. You might come to the barn and we all have goals and your goal might be today you want to jump the ditch but you go get your horse. Your horse is more tense for whatever reason but your horse is more tense that day and maybe it takes you longer to get that horse saddled that day. Well for me all plans are subject to change so if I need to I'll work on this and I'll get this really good so all of our experiences together are nice and calm. Maybe I don't get to the ditch that day but at least I had a good saddling session, mounting session and could we get these horses to where he's calmer when I'm with him and this ring right now than if he were on his own and I walked out. It seems like a little thing but for some people their horse is actually a way more tense when they're around. Alright so I'm gonna go I'm gonna reach under and bridle him with my arm under so you know there's sort of two approaches to this and I'll work on both so I might go arm under notice I tipped his nose to the side and and then I'll bring that outside ear first and then the inside ear in second. Okay now I might just ask him to get soft with that oh he's a little stuck he's a little he's a little braced and see those feet don't want to come back yet he's working at it there we go. When I take the bridle off or put the bridle on I want those reins right up by his ears right up behind his jowl. Let's let's take this bridle off and show you this so I'll still tip his nose to the side when I drop or sort of bring the bit out gently. Alright now let's walk I'm just gonna walk away here because he liked that I took that bridle off that head stall off. Alright well here's if I take my hand up and I just put a gentle pressure down now don't force it and the other thing is I'll think of sort of slightly bending and almost like I swing the head down if you're if you're pushing hard you're not that isn't not the idea you're not at doing it at the right time so he's got to be relaxed but if I just gently sort of bring my hands left to right with just a little downward pressure I mean it's very subtle there's many ways to get his head down but that's a great way to do it so now his head's down here now I could take my right hand and be up between the ears so I could take my right hand I could be up here and I could grab the crown piece and he could take the bit from this position he could have dropped his head lower but actually this isn't bad at all now that's probably not what he did on the track I'm guessing on the track they reached under his head and lifted up so that's your other method try to get that forelock out of there we could I could just remind him hey do you get your head down there alright see I took time on it that's really important make our adjustment so that's looking pretty nice as I tighten up that girth I'm able to tip tip his nose to me and I ride with I ride with multiple use this headstall on multiple horses here at the barn so it's making them smile a little bit let's drop it down here now on a gelding you want to watch the canine it doesn't hit the canine it if you put your finger behind the mouthpiece that's the true gauge of how much it's pulling on the lip also if you notice the cheek pieces they should sort of come off the side and sort of snap come back without snapping quickly so some people leave a bit a little looser on a mare you can get by with that on a gelding you're going to bring it up a little bit I'm content with where where this bit is at on him all right in the event that you might want to lunge or do a little round penning with your horse you can twist the reins up so there it's like this and then you can run throw it latch through go up some people have never learned that it's just something you can do and then the reins aren't a good and aren't a good place well he was a little balled up with the he was a little balled up with the girth so we might work on that just a little bit here I recommend that a horse that you're not you know as sure with like this like a horse like this that you would walk trot canner both directions on the ground before you get on the canter is a gate that's playful and the canter is a gate that horses are energetic their life comes way up their emotional thermometer is much higher than say standing in the barn or walking so the canter is a gate that you might want to check out before you get on your horse it's more it gives you a pretty nice read to your horse's emotional levels notice I send him off sort of think about leading get a little drive in there see how little I can do I really am thinking canter but I'm thinking about bringing his life up a little at a time you might see his eyes and his ears open a little bit to redirect here his eyes his eyes opened up a lot there it's gone past a little more little more energy I'd like him to find the canner I realized the stirrup slipping down he felt it didn't he he felt that good I'll take that wasn't a long time at the canner but it was fine there's the idea okay on me looks like a little colt he raced until he was eight from what I'm told that's a long time for for at least a horse like this and you know it's amazing to me that he still feels the girth and and they sensitive to that still bring his life up a little bit more see if I can just send him off with a little more life at the canner like it there might get a little length good I'll take that and then I'll step out of the center if I turn towards them and get tall it makes sense to halt it's kind of like a traffic guard saying stop wait it's the same thing come with me wait good very good and you can see he's bringing his life down so as much as we would bring the horse's life up it's really important that we can also bring their life down so here I'll bring his life up a little more see if we can get him to think about sending off see how little I can do when I help him get the answer good good he's thinking about me let's get one more canner in here good as I'm content with the canner I'd come back to the center and I'm trying to show him that I like his canter so much that I'll step out of the center and you can come to me he's understanding that quite well now