 We're back and I have my little buddy with me again, and he's coming along pretty well. He's starting to settle in I think that Many times you'll end up with horses that are athletic and along with that comes a great deal of energy and Curiosity and that's actually a good thing if you know what to do with it now. There's certain instances where This one can be a little bit overly sensitive to girth or things near as flank things near as hind quarters and I'd like to show you some ways to Work with work with him and see if we can get him less sensitive to things around his flank and girth So let's get started For me it's in the little things and It might start with just brushing and Not brushing him in the cross ties, but brushing him In the arena where I'm able to influence his Position I can support an idea or discourage an idea Maybe I'll cause him to think about me a little bit more Right there. It seems to feel good. I think he wanted it on his neck And I take note as I've brushed down towards his flank. I take note Look at his face. I Tend to have soft eyes open field of vision field of view So if I'm brushing his flank I'm not just looking at his flank, but I'm aware of the whole horse including his head and neck Supporting the idea of nose between the shoulder and keeping your head up This is looking okay looks to the outside. Maybe I make it more interesting I might stand up lead forward and Possibly tap with the curry comb where your leg would be It's not any worse than somebody using their spur and Then when I bring my posture down he halts now I realize that I talk about this a lot this idea of bringing the horse's life up directing it and Then bringing it back down Being able to bring his life down Equally as well as we can bring it up. I Don't want to have an imbalance there. There's some horses that have So much life people aren't able to get that horse to bring their life down and that becomes a problem Then you've got the other case Where horses just aren't able to get their feet moving and get forward and free up for the person for the human This is looking pretty good Being able to brush him standing still being able to brush him on the move. I'll just help him a little bit there The tail swishing is definitely telling me there's some sensitivity He's flinching less than he used to I'll see if I can help him get that forehand over I'm just gonna hang in there a little bit till we get that. That's good. We'll see if we can just keep Keep his nose straight attention is on see if we can walk Keep walking and keep brushing So I call that brushing on the move So anything that your leg would do or That your body would do we want to do on the ground So he understands the human the humans the same I'm the same person down here as I'll be when I'm on his back If I stand tall sit tall in the saddle, we'd like him to get moving and if I relax and settle in Maybe we come down to a to a halt Some horses get stuck in the feet. It's a nervous they're nervous inside but on the outside their feet get jammed up or stuck and a flinchy horse oftentimes isn't very free moving in their feet Anyway At least while they're flinching and so with that in mind walking forward While we're brushing it's pretty important now this grooming for me is More a mental exercise setting the stage for what's coming later Maybe even a little bit of a pattern Patterning a little bit of a behavior of coming with me coming forward Stopping when I stop It's just as much a mental exercise as It is to trying to get the long hair off and the mud off of him in fact, I Don't know that there's a time that I wouldn't be mindful of the horse If I'm in his if I'm in this, you know with him We'll get this other side the flinching a little better Tail-swishing it's okay. We'll take him Take a hard brush Give that a try He's really a nice horse and he he is curious And that's great curiosities You need to have this Now as I turned towards him notice I keep my life up and I might brush with his life up And then let him settle to a halt. I'm always able to bend his nose towards me If his nose is able to come to me The thought of you know kicking out or something probably won't be there at least it won't be directed at me Always able to get to the horse's head and neck when I'm at his side That's looking all right Does he want me to brush his forehead a little bit We'll read his expression and Brush his neck. He of course he wants to look away right now. Good. I brought him back to me came back to trying to also And still a sense of Relax with me now is your chance to to relax. Let's get forward Up we go forward good bring him to me Posture comes down my arms come to my side. I might get a slightly slouchy. So does he You can look at me. You can look at me. You can bring your head towards me, but don't touch me you might Might smell me now, but I don't want you to bring your head towards me in such a way that You're in my space It's looking pretty good. It's looking okay some tail swishing still especially when I asked her forward and then he sort of Sort of to ring his tail a little bit more But maybe I keep brushing now until I see that tail start to settle to a halt He's still swishing it right. I'll just keep brushing Good when I walk he's walking. I don't know that he's aware of his tail You know, I obviously He does it in such a way that it's almost, you know, it's it's pretty much like an involuntary thing But eventually maybe he'll understand he'll relax He won't be so tense perhaps that that response there I'll walk away that tail swishing might might go away now as I as I was walking away I stepped behind him and I could hear him just sort of lick and chew and I wasn't even I Was looking sort of soft eyes looking at his neck But I could tell he was just looking and chewing right there. I might walk away. So it's not gonna be perfect We just want to get it better Also, the idea that when I reach under your barrel When I reach under his barrel Are you okay with me down there because he swishes his tail quite a lot But are you okay with me down there because I'll be reaching down there when we put saddles on you Here's a good chance to walk away Now you might not get that tail perfect to where it's just still that's Big let big let down there where he relaxed and settled He might he might swish his tail for some time It's interesting because if he swishes his tail now when I'm brushing If he does it when we saddle him and we girth or cinch Chances are when we're riding and we sit up and use a little leg aid. Maybe he'd swish. We'll see about that One pattern that I see people get into is for human comfort Convenience they set they'll saddle up in the cross ties and Their horse has got its heads, you know tied up with with the cross ties and the horse doesn't really have a lot to Like they can't really move that much. I mean they can move their body their head of course doesn't move very far and what happens is The human is unable to reinforce what they want to have happen in the cross ties So you go and you brush your horse's flank They kick out with their leg. What do you do most people just yell at their horse at least the ones that use cross ties and Let's say you'd go to tighten up your girth So that horse feels the squeeze under its barrel around its Around its girth area feels the squeeze and then all of a sudden it bites at the cross ties. It gets stiff Its muscles get tense Not a good state of mind and it bites at the cross ties and then people don't seem to have a problem with that But then when you go to ride your horse You wonder why that thing doesn't really want to get off the forehand and it gets forward and it stretches out its nose Every time you use your leg So everything it's in the little things that that's what adds up to be the big picture. All right, let's move on There's so many things that we could use There's so many objects and things that we could take and get our horse used to I I have a the flag is It's nice. It works well and I Just don't want people to think that we we live with the flag in our hand all the time It's it's not something we live with but it is part of a part of my main some of my main tools that I use with my horse and He's seen the flag a time or two, but there's lots of different positions. We could use the flag right now I'll just present with the handle. I have other videos that you can look at to Introduce your horse to the flag. I'm a little nervous on that side I'll see if I can what while he's under pressure see if we can get to that hind quarters and have him offset Then cross those hind legs a little bit Bring it under We'll just bring this front end through a little bit send them off good Good. I want to think about the the mindset that we were in When we had that curry comb Now he sees the flag and he's thinking that It's something he should be nervous about and I don't want him to think that because If he's nervous with the flag, he's he'll be nervous with with me Let's just see if we can just settle in for a second. Good. There we go. Good Good and he moved forward. I'll just keep it on him. He's flinching. He wants to it's almost like a bug landed on his back It's amazing. We're how horses with the muscle control that they have again probably when he's flinching and then voluntary type Almost a reflex But what's funny is when he's relaxed he won't be in the state of mind to elicit that response I hope that makes sense now rather than getting into the Rather than getting into the conditioned response aspect of horses and all of that Types type of you know psychology and stuff, which is fine. It's there But I want you to think about getting the horse to be comfortable and calm and relaxed Aware of the human all of this is something that the horse can do and It's about them being mindful and thinking and feeling For us and that is something that if they're in that state of mind You're not gonna have all of that twitchy Nervous Behavior responses a little forward motion. He's got to find that hind leg. That's a good step That's a good step. We'll switch sides good rub there Good, and I'll just switch and bring the flag up this way to notice. He got a little nervous When I brought the flag to him. I'll stand tall bring them forward notice. It's by the flank It's where your leg would be. I'll help him move out a little bit Just making it a little bit difficult for him to stay right here. So the way I used the flag was Little pressure to say it's difficult to stay here But if you walk forward you'll walk off you'll move off of that So I want the horse's awareness first The horse to become aware of me and then pretty soon the mind will start to actually work for us And it's not about Desensitizing for me. It's more about mindfulness intention the horse becoming thoughtful of us and trying to get the job done for us before We get firmer. This is looking good if you notice that I'm when I'm moving my feet and Standing tall with my hand up That would definitely indicate to him walk So when you notice that I'll get relaxed and bring like right here bring my arm down relax my posture That would mean halt. So here we'll stand tall and I might bring the flag up. I could bring the flag up in the air. I could bring the flag under his barrel Where your leg would be? And if I will bring that front end through here a little bit a Little further notice where I use The flag there we go. We'll get it done. There is some tail-swishing There's some ear pinning Because he's not comfortable But if he if he thinks for us if he thinks for me It won't get to a place where he needs to to get that way there It's a little change. So he trotted and that was sort of his way to to relax and Take that excess energy and put it into something now. We'll walk away. He'll Offset the hind legs Stepping the inside hind leg under when I turn towards him will halt Might bring that front end through just a little bit Bring that flag up. It's getting much better much much better Now I'm at the point where I'm bringing it under his chest and that's something you have to be careful doing in fact Don't go right to the flag anyway You can work there slowly. I don't think the flag is that big of a deal though as some people make it out to be Though I have imagined. There's many horses that get pretty Nervous about the flag and that's probably true And then there's a lot of horses that I see that are nervous about bits and the rider So you'll have to decide if the flag is for you now just to show you it's similar Just to show you Wouldn't matter if it's a flag if here's a here's a polo mallet It's kind of like a little foot I'll show you what I mean a little leg Now the polo mallet's different But I can take that and I can press in Come right past come to the hind quarters Step up step over Come across the hind quarters. Look at how I'm using that on. Let's step that left hind leg under Notice how I'm using that With a little more pressure, but I'm using it where Your saddle your thigh or knee your leg might be Getting in there with it. Look at that. No tail swish right there. That's pretty interesting. Oh the other side I came I came to his right side quickly And he told me he put his ear back with that look of skepticism. There's a big flinch You couldn't see but I was down by the girth Now I'm working. I'll turn so you can see I'm working this area a little longer. I'm staying in there until The mental His mental awareness comes to me. So perhaps I'll get to the mental Alert aware side of the horse More of the conscious side of the horse And pretty soon look at the flinching will be go away So although I do realize That people are training The t-word training the reflexes of the horse. That's fine and dandy, but what about The mental component the part that your horse can actually Understand if you get to the high buddy if you get to that part of the horse You won't have to be thinking so much about training and repetition and mechanics And we'll do other videos on that as well, but notice I'm using the The little foot the polo mallet. I'm using it with a little more pressure pressing in there and He's looking okay with that. I mean the tail's going and I don't need to get it perfect in one day Little flinch. So I'll stay in there a little longer little tail movement I'll stay in there a little bit there things settle down. I'll walk away His Ear was back on me. So he was a little nervous I don't know if you heard that but he let down right there Again, doesn't have to be perfect if you try to get things perfect. You'll probably never be happy And your horse surely won't be happy with you Be back in the picture in just a second He's looking at it a little bit different He's looking at it with a a bit of curiosity more than he normally would the reason being It's a bigger saddle pad than he's had before What's going on here big square pad interesting He's not used to that Take it on take it off in my mind. I'm thinking about him standing still that looks great Let's go forward. His hindquarters are in a slightly awkward position. So let's go forward And offset that right hind legs step the hindquarters under And then I'll halt with that pad up on his back maybe He'll find the halt in just a second. I'll just stay stay with them. That's fine. That's just fine Just like the flag the curry comb a whip If I stand tall and lead ahead He might walk forward. That'd be great. We want him to we want when I get lively. He gets lively If I bring my life down, he'll bring his life down Let's bring the life up and Step that shoulder over walk through put that pad on. All right. I'll be right back That looks pretty good. I don't have to work on that too hard or too long Although he is looking at it up there I notice on a lot of our youtube videos. There's not People are nervous to write comments and people People don't uh, they don't really want Necessarily do that and when one person writes a comment then more people write comments and don't be afraid to write a comment Or ask a question Because we'll definitely check our Check our videos for that type of thing. All right, so I did drop my rope there just to get reorganized now what I have here It's kind of funny. I have a a western saddle with an english horse and although He's not destined to be He's smelling it Although he's not destined to be A western horse perhaps carrying The saddle could help him with his flinchiness and some of his sensitivity And you notice he's swinging his head and he's looking now I might just turn And Try to get him so you we can see in the picture here in the screen We'll turn And rub and you might smell it from Behind me and then I might just see if I can get a little movement in there without moving my feet And then I'll just swing it set it let it go down now You notice I'm by myself I don't have a lot of help right now And that's better. That's a good thing because If he's not able to do this with one person if it takes Two people one person to hold him from the front side Maybe he's not ready for it Same thing would be true with mounting. We'll drop our our cinches There we go Elm come back to me Settle in It's good It's very good relaxing now Because he's he's let's turn so you can see what i'm doing here Because he's so quiet. It's nice to take our time A little bit here and I realize that That saddle's shifting slightly. No big deal. I'll just reach up and reposition it and that's part of life. That's good good See if we can bring that forehand over just a bit good all right I've got my my cinch strap sort of ready here You notice That I'll reach under with my left hand that puts me more up towards his shoulder and less towards his His hind legs now. I will drop my rope Everybody has slightly different techniques. This has worked for me. I've made it this far without Too many issues and This is the way I do it notice he's a little snorty, but I'll just lift up a little bit and It'd be nice if I would watch him breathe I can see his ribs expand and contract and if I were just gentle I I could look and I could probably just tighten up snug it a little bit when he When he when he exhales But I don't have to do it all at once. I don't have to tighten up that cinch off all in one All in one shot now the back cinch cool deal never I would I would venture to say That if I Had to take a guess he's never had a back cinch on before Being that he's a track horse now with that saddle up there. He goes. I don't want to back up With that thing behind me. He's got to almost back up into that scary saddle making adjustments I'll get my rope more Ready to go here just tightening up my Back cinch a little bit, but it's it's still loose on him. It's not it's not Um So tight yet. I don't want to scare him I don't want him to What happens is when horses walk off then they breathe in and their rib cage rib cage fills up with air And all of a sudden they feel that girth and that cinch and they go, oh, where did that come from? This looks pretty good bringing him to me In fact, he almost looks more relaxed with this saddle than he did without it which I think that's a good thing go forward. All right I'll tighten up my saddle and Maybe three increments or three stages Before I ride So that it's not all at once and that's another thing about the cross ties Where is your horse's mind when you're cinching or girthing your horse when you're in the cross ties? It's probably not on you back there It's probably on the horse in front of them in the cross ties in front of them And I see this at barns and I always think that you know, maybe people are wasting An opportunity there All right, let's get some life going and we'll see if we can get him moving up into uh into a trot So I'll stand tall. I'll bring my life up. He might there we go. He might feel that a little bit I keep him moving forward I'm pretty calm about this He'll settle in You could hear his breathing a little bit So at the walk he was pretty okay with it, but then bringing him up. There's a little change Bringing him up to a trot. Well, that was a little more Energy Of course, he was breathe more then he'll settle in notice the tail still tight, but That back cinch isn't really tight yet It's it's loose That front cinch is pretty is fairly snug He's got to work Work that out a little bit He will he'll get look at those ears and the eyes. He's looking back at it He's he has to realize that that thing I'll bring him to me here He's got to realize that that thing it's going to follow him around a little bit Now I'm going to tighten up that front cinch a little bit more which And We'll send him off or the other direction We want him to just that saddle obviously doesn't feel like a part of him yet It will It's not about running them fast either cannering fast yet. It's I'd like him to he's offering the trot to me But he's feeling that saddle and that's Why you see his hind legs look Uneven like this. He's feeling that back cinch See So when we ride him and we leg him there's a good chance that he Instead of lifting his back up or going bending Or going forward perhaps he gets tense Braced and doesn't go forward The other reason why you saw his hind legs look a little short on one side is because he was preparing to To canter you can see that see Disunited canter right here. Let's work on that again Now there's a lot of straps that hang. It's not just the front cinch and the back cinch Let's get united here in the in the canter there. I sped him up and got that hind end going easy, buddy Here he's going to bring back bring him back to the trot and just a second here. They're good He's trying to canter there. It was ready to canter Sometimes he gets a little balled up with it And really tense We want those ears to move around and rotate softly Those ears to sort of go to the back and to the front softly Not just a set rigid back or set Good, let's look in a little better except for our disunited canter. Let's try that again doing a few more Doing a few more circles here Until he gets united in that canter Trying to help encourage that hind end to change here a little more action motion tail stiff So because he's stiff we're we're not quite getting that That hind lead Let's try that again. And so we do get it Flying change in the rear All right, so i'm happy here. I'm happy now. He's got the lead. So now let's trot Let's bring everything down So the reason That I was circling as much as I did there was looking for that united Looking for more of a united Um an actual canter and not a crossfire Now his veins are popping out a little bit, but he's going to settle in It's good Yeah Help him relax and come to me draw him in We're going to check that saddle a little bit here Reach up Move that saddle around a little he's looking at it He's really a good guy It's really a good guy. He's legitimately he was nervous about that Saddle we're going to take that back cinch up a click Up a notch see if we can back up into it When they're just standing they don't feel that back cinch as much as when they break and do a canter or That type of thing good job, buddy He doesn't have to he offered a trot and I just relaxed. I thought walk and sure enough. He came back. He looked at me. See like right here Now I think trot here We'll get a trot going good Look at him look back at that saddle now western saddle Uh, the stirrups move around a little bit, which is why it's on him. It's good. No problem Ready to bring him to me because he's He's he's thinking He's calm. He's thinking Good I let him settle in It's good So think about this if he could carry that western saddle And handle that back cinch There's a really good chance if this feels like a part of him There's a really good chance that a horse could accept Your leg aids much better Now I realize we're not going to ride him in a western saddle very much But I just like to do this with some of my horses So that I know I could do it but also Let them carry that mass and that bulk and that heavier saddle So That's looking all right to me. Good boy. All right. He's mindful real mindful right now So I guess you got to have a little bit of a show there. He's still kicking up those hind legs a little bit Still feeling that saddle Now there was a bit of preparation that that I've done With him with ropes around the the barrel I didn't get to that today In the video Good looks nice looks nice. All right. Oh lost his lead there, but I'm gonna take it I'm gonna take that look how free He got wow Let's come closer to the camera Turn halt He's looking to me. Let's give him a little chance to just settle in. It's really nice Really nice Now that back cinches is it's not tight, but it's fairly It's fairly snug See about his his legs a little sensitive Picking up those legs. You're a good You're a good guy. You're a really good guy see if I could Swing that stirrup stand tall swing that stirrup As and I'm not really bumping him In fact, it bumped the back cinch if anything so I swing that I swing that that stirrup When I want to convey life and movement to him That looks all right Let's try our other side We'll swing that stirrup. I'll I'll stand tall See about stepping them over a little bit Good And just see if he can handle that swinging stirrup and I'll swing that stirrup now until he comes up into trot And I'll let that go now. I'm purposely letting it bump sort of bump that back cinch Which is oftentimes what happens when we use a back cinch Horses frequently they're just getting when you use your leg Or some people use the spur in a western setup oftentimes you'll see a back cinch nicked up and Many times that's where the horse is getting Feeling it is in that back cinch. It's not about feeling that discomfort under the belly anyway It's about knowing what the human wants being aware of our intention. That's looking really nice That's looking really nice now in theory If I weren't doing a video There'd be a good chance that'd be my point where I'd be getting on I'm going for a little ride but I wouldn't mind before we do that I wouldn't mind One more canter, but we will change our direction and we will actually go To the left just stepping back Drawing him to me Good we'll stand tall lead that front end through. Let's step forward Let's see about a canter to the left here Just uh picked up his off lead changed the front didn't get the rear changed got the front Got a flying change there in the rear He said he thinks to himself this is scarier when I'm cantering because this thing is chasing me, you know there we're all disunited in the canter Now the repetition here Is to get him balancing better at the canter I'm gonna leave it at that To the left here. I'm gonna bring my posture down the trot will come through Make a long a step way out of that center So he's not jamming around and slamming around with his hind quarters and then we'll halt back up Take that forehand through the new Canter I'm curious How he is on this right Right side carrying there we go Ears came back he had a united canter still does this looks good kind of lost that rear a little bit Some tension in there, but not bad there. Let's trot before we lose that that hind lead that hind end All right, that's quite a bit better. In fact here where he's looking and chewing and he's really Starting to free up a little more So that's looking Pretty nice Looking pretty nice We'll have other future videos In terms of circling and that type of thing, but Just realize that sometimes When your horse is unbalanced on a let's just say a lunge line um Or a longer rope Then you know, it's a chance. It's an opportunity now There are situations where it might work might be advantageous for you to ask for a a flying change But it's a chance for your horse to figure out where he wants to put his feet how he needs to get it done and I've had quite a few horses that are That are pretty nice, uh um I get some flying changes lunging, you know, they look kind of unbalanced on the lunge line over time They develop a flying change so that Because they missed their lead Maybe that's an opportunity for you to To work on balance Flying change or maybe even simple changes for some of you Ideally I like how he's really letting down ideally I wouldn't Want to have that many circles because What's he thinking while he's doing those circles But it's the way it worked out today. All right, so this will be interesting. I'm gonna just drag Coming back into the picture here With my trusty my trusty steed trusty mount I don't know here. We are And I'm mounting block Oh, I'd better wear I'd better put my helmet on or I'll get in trouble Making these videos. We're really trying to show you straight through Not only because we're lazy and it's less editing, but I want you to see a session all the way through with with horses that we work with And I'm just looking at my reins I realize sometimes it's uh It's not always so interesting when I'm going back and forth, but just the way it is All right, so To the mounting block I go And he's not looking at the mounting block. He's he's looking at something Something maybe out the door or in the corner. I'm not sure but we'll just let him find this Yeah Yeah, he's pretty sharp Pretty sharp guy He goes that's that's what you doing jack Just thinking things through now. I'm gonna ask him to go forward here Just to make sure he remembers how to bring his life up and walk forward when I bring my life up I think He wanted to stay And settle I think he said I hey I settled there Good job. Good job I'll bring him back through here Excellent How are you? You're good I didn't mention in this video. I didn't mention he used to be a racehorse, but I I don't know some people find that interesting. I You know, I think about that I think about what is What were his old experiences in life that that's the significance to that to me but other than that I'm not going to do anything that different Because he was a racehorse and that nothing nothing drastically Different at least at this point although I will say I Will say oh, I've got so many wires for the mics and things cameras Uh There's one thing that I do think about though and that is All these straps, I hope they're adjusted for me. It's my I use the saddle for lessons. We'll we'll make this work. So I will say that The poor race horses they they don't always have a great opinion of the of the snaffle bit because they were Taught to drive forward push off that bit push through the body into the hind legs and I've watched jockeys run down home stretch and they're riding with contact While they're driving with the whip with the with the crop or their bat whatever it's called in racing. I don't know and So the horses learn snaffle bits They learn this feel that's a first resist And then maybe they give And they were ridden with snaffle bits With a lot of stress and and concern So now what I want to do Is just see if I can start directing him more and more mainly on a long reign with my With my torso my headlight on my chest I've got sort of this wedge shape in the ring right now that I I have to ride in so that I can be in frame With the video, but the main thing is is that he gets free and forward my first couple rides I focused more on his hind quarters But right now I'm actually feeling I'm feeling great just letting him sort of go and look if I look to the right I would like him to look to the right. Let's bring him up to a little bit of a trot here What I'd like to do is stand tall. I like to sit up Tuck the seat open leg go for a spook We'll come back around there all right now He's on a long sort of a long reign and yeah, it happens sometimes He's spooks and looks at something good now. I want to bring well bring his life forward Bring his movement forward his attention in front He's looking at that corner. What if I just put my hand on the down on his neck. Oh, you made it All right. Good. I'm trying to not reign him and direct him so much with his head You'll see me pick up direct leave him alone let him find it pick up direct He's on my circle here where I And then I'll leave him alone on my on my mental my mental line or Ark that I'm on I'm not just riding random. I know I have an idea of where I'm going to go so I direct I let him find it Now maybe sometimes we slightly come off that point. So like Maybe he didn't make it quite into that corner yet. It's okay We'll come back and I'd like to come to the corner and walk. I like to come into here And I like to find a little walk here Here we go. I'm thinking about it. I'm changing my seat. Here's a walk I helped with the rain a little let him look into that corner a little bit I know a lot of people that ride horses, but they're uh And they can jump They can maybe even hand gallop a little in a field But I know a lot of riders that have a hard time just letting go and just Putting those rains down They have a really hard time and when he spooked in the corner Did I pick up on the rains at all? And maybe I directed his head a little bit but for the most part I just sort of went along with So there is this balance between Guiding so left turn let him find it to direct him and then sort of be a passenger Now I'll direct again. We'll change our direction Work my way towards the corner. So I'll direct him here Help him a little bit. I'm looking focusing my hands are way off to the side because it's a rope halter And it's what I need here. I'm helping a little bit. I'm saying find my Find my line In fact, we'll come into that corner here Now there I directed him all the way into the corner. So I had a hard time letting him just go We got it, but I had to help him to get here. He's looking out the door Yeah, those are jump standards, you know about those probably or at least you will someday good smelling each one of them He's really a curious horse. I like that I'll I'll sit up tuck my seat open like go forward Here I'm trying to just stay in the center with my hands Trying to just direct a little bit and let him find it. Let's trot sit up open leg Go for a little trot here. He's carrying that western saddle carrying me Look at just kind of letting him find this right turn Here we go straighten out left turn That that head will draw around to the left. Hopefully I know he's tall and his head's up and he thinks We need to get on beat. We need to get our a consistent rhythm at the trot Need consistency here Trot trot trot good. There you go Change direction. Oh, he he's thinking about that corner Let's go in there. Yeah, that'll work. We'll come into that corner now He got curious and I said, all right You you can go into that corner and I will go to go back to work now Let's sit up But I still asked him to go into the corner. So although here. He said there's another corner. Uh-huh Heads up Security curious Nice job, though, buddy feels good faster trot here How fast can you trot post fast trot fast? I'll post slower In a second here to trot slower Trying to not use that much rain I have no idea if uh, I'm way far away as far as uh, your view of me. I don't know Change direction here. I'm gonna get get closer down that rain here a little bit And I'd like him just to walk and let's get soft again And pretty soon instead of his head being so up and out We'll start to get Him soft softening and get him supple good And now we'll go back and see do you remember how to step that haunch over that looks good Once I get it The first ride I work on the hindquarters a little more on a horse like this But as I go I don't need to work on that hind quarter so much that that was nice Move the hind quarter as well. I want to draw him to the left So what I'm looking for is for him to get free and start to follow My my focus my where's my chest where where am I looking so pretty soon I want him to follow those those things around and I'm not looking for Um a lot of precision at this stage of the game I'm looking for Free movement and I really want him to get good at trusting me and turning and turning loose So that's really what I'm going for now at this stage in the game, but we're not that far along with him really And normally what I do at this point is I open up the overhead door that I have In the corner And I normally ride them out and I ride them around my property And right now we just had a ton of snow and