 Hello again. Here I have a thoroughbred, a rather rambunctious thoroughbred that's here for me to work with for a while and I get a few thoroughbreds but he's here just to learn to settle in. You can see I'm not very significant to him but occasionally I think he's been known to possibly rear from what I hear and maybe even kick out a little bit so right now you notice his blankets on so what I decided is I would work with him in the arena first and set things up well for me to be able to take that blanket off rather than doing it in the stall or something like that and oftentimes I'll tell people to to settle their horse up in the ring because I combined my groundwork and my grooming together sometimes now you notice I'm pretty much invisible to him he just looks to the outside and the way I deal with that is I cut an angle I walk off to the side and you notice he crosses the hind quarter so I might step off to the side and he crosses that rear that and all of a sudden you'll see he'll get interested in me because I'm getting to the hind feet so there we go so he hears other horses and I can't I can't stop a horse from being excited I can't I can work with it I can take it I can redirect the excitement but it's a fact it's just he's excited but as he goes he'll understand that I'm getting to those hind legs it's right here I'll cut an angle and if you count how many times he crosses his inside hide leg under it's a lot now movement really can be a good thing if we know what to do with it and at times it can be frustrating when we need a horse to stand but they need to move but when a horse is younger like this I don't mind a little movement I'll take it pretty soon we'll be directing it into something pretty neat so you can see how I'm just sort of sending him and moving him off you can see he's pretty pushy he doesn't really know halt yet at least when he's excited some people will still some people see my horse halts but then I ask well what about under pressure does your horse does your horse halt under pressure something interesting about cutting an angle and that's when I walk off to the side again when I do that I end up back in front of the horse again so he might walk past me we'll let this happen so he might walk right past me and when he does I'll just cut an angle and that'll take his hindquarters away and notice I'm in front again now say he comes around and he comes past my side again I'll cut an angle again the funny thing about this is after a while he'll stop because he'll say geez you're always in front of me no matter what I do he wants to get in front of me but I just cut an angle get to the haunch there and I'm in front again cut an angle and he's stopping away stopping with his mind off of me good good cut an angle I'm in front again not only do you get to the hindquarters but the horse thinks you're pretty pretty handy there he sort of is letting down a little bit my eyes are up my chin is up and I'm trying to be aware of where he is at because he's not that aware of where I'm at and I want my toes and good job there you let down a little bit notice the change in posture walk off cut an angle if he stops square or relatively straight with me then I might I might let him stand in here he's looking and chewing he is starting to draw his attention around to me better notice that I'm able to keep a distance even though he is sort of known to perhaps come into your space like that by cutting an angle it allows me to keep a distance all of a sudden he goes oh you're pretty we're pretty handy and I say yeah now let's see we can take your front end over a little bit now I bumped slightly because he was just going to come right on top of me now he doesn't know any better it's just what he's used to and being a racehorse think about that for a second see if you'd stop straight sort of a walk off but being a racehorse since the beginning since he was born his whole being was to line up straight through the spine you could see I bumped there I bumped here what I'm going to see is get off me I have this there little change he comes forward don't get off me if he comes past me now at this point I'll bump him back and say I've got my front side to you so you don't go out you don't leave I'll take that hind quarters over cross that hind legs we'll see if we can get a little backup and there he's in front so that's looking pretty pretty nice I'll cut an angle here I want to back off I don't want him to feel like I'm just in his face so I will back off cut an angle pretty soon he says ah now he's looking right past me yeah I'm not invisible but I sort of am to him therefore why mess with the blanket yet why why would I do that I think a lot of people think oh my horse stopped let's saddle them or my horse stopped let's get let's get the blanket off and in reality the horse is not aware of you that was a nice little change there as his head came down he thought about me a little bit don't come forward through me I'll take the hind quarters if I get to the hind quarters I can get to the whole horse now notice that when he does stop he really looks away I want you to think about your horses that you have and if you get that sometimes because I've noticed that when horses stop they think that that's their free chance to look around but think about this the halt is so important because if he could halt well and stand that might allow me the ability to to gain space see so he creeps forward so I say back up stay put friend and then oh stay put I'd really like his nose to be between his shoulders but then when I walk off I have distance because I got him to to essentially back up but halt key thing is halt there backup came through sooner step to the side I'm gonna move that hind quarters it's not pretty yet I don't think people always realize that the instant that your horse sees you you go to catch him outside or you walk into the barn and he's in the stall the instance that they see you they're they're observing maybe they're learning training starts then so it doesn't start when you sit in the saddle it doesn't start when you after the cross ties and you restrain your horse tie its head up saddle it people are mindless doing that horses get crabby you tighten up the girth they bite at the cross ties then you wonder why when you squeeze your leg your horse pokes its nose out it's looking better so I like to work on my horse in the ring or when he's ready so I had his head straight for a little bit there always gonna fall over that was interesting he was leaning over to the side I think you forgot about his feet I kicks his hind legs out a little bit getting back to that idea of race horses the whole from the start they get excited lively straighten the body and they usually go forward and even when people lead with chains and they're bumping I've seen pictures of people on racetracks with lip chains that's funny you someone even has to do that but that horse gets nervous and they're bumping the chain and the horse walks with its head up and you're teaching your horse when you're nervous get straight so that becomes default mode for horses when they're nervous get straight which makes sense because they can get out of there I want to teach him this bend arc bend through your body look at me bend through your body cross the hind legs I got the hind legs but I didn't get the bend that's nice right there look at that they arc when they bend through the body the mind comes around the body bends the feet come will be arcing will be nice and arcing so this is an improvement I do realize that he's he's looking away a redirect him you lose he loses mind a little bit all of a sudden he forgets you're there take the hind end I might back up a little bit if I can get this going for me this idea of stopping straight nose between the shoulder it's gonna help me for everything else he's gonna settle in he's gonna start to look he's gonna start to look at me more and come to I want his default to be look at what it is that's making you nervous and she maybe even chase the danger sometimes go towards it don't run away hind quarters look how smooth he's getting and then the halt comes through it's great and I'll offer opportunities to stand and let him think although right now what's he thinking about he's thinking about the window behind me I'm sort of right now he's sort of considering me that's better that's a nice change there I don't even rub a horse that much until until they start to take and consider me to when they're mindful more mindful of me he goes you're down there and then maybe then I'll rub but I'm not gonna rub a horse that's looking away that's high-headed because where's his mind you're rubbing a horse as I've been paying attention to you and he's he learns stand still look away you're gonna rub him and he's gonna think yeah good so I wait till they're they're mindful I'll start scratching his forehead they love that he's a nice horse but his mind some of these throwbreds their mind you know they might be a six seven year old horse but they've got the mind of a two three-year-old sometimes on the track you know think about where the priorities are for these horses and think about what they know and what life experiences they have so I work with a lot of track horses a lot in a week at different places not just at my stable there's a lot of throwbreds around and they're great horses the minds are good athletic but they're independent sometimes you know think about running in a big herd with a bunch of other horses around a track we we pretend that horses like that maybe some do but yes that horse if he likes running around with all those horses like that I don't know sometimes but I need this horse to come to me and relax and he will we'll get some changes out of them and you might think he hasn't even gotten the blanket off yet and I say that's all right that's all right because this is what's gonna matter when we ride them and we go outside hindquarters forward halt when I turn towards you that's looking better let's walk off before he gets antsy what if I turn my headlight here lead take him around now I personally like horses that have movement that are lively energetic I like that for me look at that walk that's nice I sure want to get that blanket off and we're gonna get there we're gonna get there across that hind legs come towards me turned oh boy turn towards him and he says he's gonna run past and I go wait a second there's like an imaginary wall here that I've got it's my my space and I say you get back there's a little change there I can't make a horse I can't make a horse do anything but I can I can encourage that hindquarters to to step now let's get your attention that's better and I is looking past me a little bit I can't be too greedy or I'll frustrate him and he won't understand I want to be able to go out and catch him tomorrow and not have him walk away now this is interesting he's starting to come back come back to the arena here to me nose between the shoulder encourage that I approach he's skeptical he goes you just you are just moving me around and bumping I said I know but my intention is to just pet you now I got one buckle and his head was turned to the right so I didn't want to keep keep working at it until I have his mind on me always able to bend as head was sort of to the outside so I wasn't super thrilled about that look at that I go to this side he looks away so it's just kind of funny because every side I go to he he looks to the outside I can learn so much about horses the personality and I you can even get a feel for for their life experiences even I noticed I only had one leg strap so okay he only has one leg strap so that's fine snorty so I like to be a one-man show when it comes to kind of a little hasty there to get that Velcro but I'm sort of a one-man show when it comes to starting a horse or some people say restarting a horse that's kind of interesting and then and then mounting I'm a one-man show trailer loading let's get this blanket out out of range here trailer loading I'm a one-man show why because if it takes two people something's wrong he's exploring and looking at himself in the mirror you can't see it I know we're out of frame it's nice to be at a distance and there's so many people that would just benefit from this and so many horses would would let down put their head low if you just got out of your horses space