 Can you imagine being a racehorse and every time Every time he's nervous He's taught go run get straight get stiff go a thoroughbred that's Off the track and he's doesn't race anymore, but he did quite well. He was pre was successful once some money and But he's quite nervous with people and so my job is to To get him to relax and get confident with us and Hopefully that'll carry over and help his owner rather than starting off in Isleway Like you probably did on the track I'm starting off in here and I decided I just let him come in and sort of get acclimated Look at the surroundings check everything out. Remember horses of all the time in the world We're the ones that are usually in a hurry All right, so right now you can see Creek is pretty interested in me and he's really looking at me as he looks away I might just approach but look how little it takes For him to come back to me and draw back around watch his ears. Can you see? Where his ears are pointing can you see he's looking Straight from his point straight on and he's dipping his head up and down to focus his his vision And so you'll see horses raise and lower their head not just to relax but because they're focusing vision and they're trying to see now He's he's pretty relaxed. He's interested in rolling and at times. He's interested in me I still stepped away because he is he is coming towards me and that is what I would like him to do So he's a little undecided here if he should go down and roll or if he should come to me Oh, that looks pretty good Can you imagine? being a racehorse and every time Every time he's nervous He's taught go run get straight get stiff go push go forward Well, I don't want that what I need him to do is look at me and draw around and If I can get that I've got his mind Look at his expression so you can see that head going up and down here I might approach he took note that I was coming so I stop So you have to be willing to take your time. This is something that a lot of horses haven't had When they were brought along is his time I'll approach so every time he looks away or I feel that his tension drifts off I'll step in just slightly You can see smelling here His nostrils are kind of flaring and he's just it's breezy and he's catching smells. This is looking pretty good If I step to his rear The effect that you might have is drawing So if I have his eyes and his attention and I step to the rear He'll draw. I'm sort of drawing his attention around now If he gets nervous, he's gonna move off Which in the round pens? Okay, that is an option. So that looked really nice Right there. Now really I brought him in and I just let him get settled in I let him get acclimated and Notice I didn't start off sending him This is looking really nice. He's really relaxed Good so as I step around he's he's staying with me So that's that's really nice now the other byproduct that we're going to have To stepping to the rear and drawing him around is you're gonna notice that he bends in his body I brought him back there But you'll notice that he bends in his body if I keep stepping around What'll happen is he'll start to cross the hind legs now He brought his front legs forward as well, but you'll notice that the hind end steps Across and then as that happens, I'll just back off now. I notice looking and chewing. I can still see him behind me I'm just trying to make this really easy for him and pleasant So let that curiosity Take over the fact that his head is so low is is outstanding There and then I just slowly started to bring my front side around towards him and he understood stop It's no different than If you were talking to somebody and you turn towards them Let your arms down and relax. They realize that you're taking a break and Then if I were to say Let's go take a look at the at the barn if I turned and got tall that person you would come with me You'd understand. It's it's really the same thing with horses. We just have to become aware of what we're Doing with our bodies. So this is nice. So he's starting to draw around. Let's try His left side Yeah, it's looking pretty nice and you can see when I turn towards him. He stops. It's excellent. It's very good now You might feel Like you here's your time to put your halter on or here's your time to hurry up and get a bridle on him But just remember that this is what this horse is needed his whole life and he probably didn't get this on the track He probably didn't get time Slow It's really very nice Turn towards him good a little licking and chewing. It looks good his heads came down now It's excellent. See how I brought my frontal planer my chest or my head light Off to my left and he looked go a little further. So I'll say look over here. That's that's a good try right there I'll step back step away I'll bring myself back to the center of the round pen Because I know that I'll want to send him off here in just a minute. Yeah Look at that. He knows that my attention is over here. So he's thinking about that But so much of the time What I'll notice people they don't bring themselves back to the center or the bullseye of the round pen In fact, I'll notice that people will sometimes be off to the side sort of closing off a gap Closing off this space and I'll and they'll ask their horse to go and the horse gets stuck gets trapped and goes the wrong way If the person if we orientate ourselves to the center So that we're in the bullseye I'm just gonna give him a minute here good so that we're in the bullseye When I ask him to to send off He'll have a nice space and a big open place to go through So that's a really big tip right there I'm gonna drive him forward just a little bit just enough to where I notice a little change in his feet and gait And I notice that maybe I draw his attention to me. So I step in I drive And I'm sending him but then once I get that ear I'll draw I'll come back and see if we can draw him around Oh, he found the mounting block. That's handy. I happen to have a mounting block in here interesting So let's let him stop there and and and take a look at that. That's a happy place. That's a good spot to be So I'm just giving him time here Because he's really exploring this good pretty soon He's either going to get curious and tip it over or he'll look elsewhere. And so then we could go back to work, but The important thing is is to understand that That when I step out of the center or the the middle the bullseye That's going to mean change something We'll talk about that a little bit more. So now I've orientated myself back to the middle I'm going to think about sending him off left circle See if I can do very little I'm in the center when I'm in the bullseye or the middle this means maintain to the horse stay Stay with it Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing great If I step out of the middle It has a few meanings. It could mean go forward drive forward Maybe a little bit more and then when I'm happy I'll come back to the center I could step out of the middle if I wanted to Block him and then change direction He's being a good good guy here Take my time So just I'm still giving him a nice open spot to come through and then I find my way back to the center again Because he needs to know that when I'm in the middle, that's he's doing the right thing maintain Keep doing what you're doing Send him drive off step out of the center And in this case, he's coming to me. So that's excellent