Sometimes the best training session arnt training sessions at all!❤️
Little fletch here has had a few days off life and such got in the way oh and course the rain! Haha.
Yards are still a bit wet and I don’t want to rip them up so we thought we’d just saddle up and go for a walk!
Sometimes the best sessions just arnt even sessions at all!
Super calm and relaxed with the saddle! Leading nicely even thought that grass is super green and yummy. It’s ment to be wet for another week yet. So well done a few of these this week just so he’s still doing something because “something is better then nothing “
First saddlings can be tricky. They generally go one of two ways. Great or sh*t! 😂😂
Fletch here done great after a small bit of sh*t😂!
I threw poor fletch into the deep end. He’s had a week off due to my own circumstances and I just picked straight up where we left off. Took him a few minutes to settle but he done great!
Super proud at how well he’s going!
I don’t believe I need many words for this video!
Connection, trust, bond come to mind.
Fletch is a good boy
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I’m a big believer in talking to my horses, some people think I’m crazy, but honestly it works. I talk my trainers threw everything. Walk on, trot up, canter, steady, woah, back up. We talk every step of the way.
So when something like this happens, it doesn’t end in a disaster!!! If you watch this video with sound on you’ll hear me at the end tell fletch to woah and he almost instantly stops! And stands in such a calm manner! Gets untangled and then we continue on our session.
If fletch wasn’t used to voice commands this could of ended very differently!
I really love it when something just clicks!
Fletch is a super fast learner! He picks things up easy. Without issue, he’s smart, and tries bloody hard! We have only attempted turns on the lunge twice now and he’s picked it up super quickly! I Absolutely love that last turn he pushes threw with such impulsion! It’s just beautiful to see!
Is the issue your having actually the issue or does it steam from a much deeper issue?
Sweet peas issue isn’t that she doesn’t know how to tie up. Coz she very much does. Sweet peas issue is she’s learnt that if she pulls back enough the rope will come loose or the human will untie her and let her do what she wants… we’ll sweet pea. Not this human!! Sweet pea is on day five now. It’s taken me five days to get her to stand patiently and wait… and even on day five there was a decent pull and a bit of pawing. In this video you can see she’s playing with the rope. She goes to the end of it, gives it a little tug. And walks forward. She’s learning that this rope won’t move for her!!! Fixing this one issue had made a lot of other things easy with her now! Hopefully it’ll help with her float loading aswell!
Miss sweet pea. This morning when I brought her down to the yards she flat out told me nope I’m not going in there. Not once but twice at two different gates. I reminded her that, it’s easier to do as asked otherwise you have to work harder. We’ll this was the result by the end. Not only is she going threw the gates she’s doing it with such a soft touch to the rope and such impulsiveness! Im loving it! What a champion!!
Fletch very first time with a girth. A lot of people like to use ropes around there girth to begin with, I don’t, it’s a personal choice and that’s ok! But fletch is just more interested in what I am doing then what’s going around his belly! ❤️
When you trip over and need someone to blame!! 😂😂it’s ok buddy I’ll cop it for ya!
Poor fletch he’s so playful. And half our session was spent like this. But boy he’s done well!
Let’s talk bout learned behaviour.
Everything a horse does it has learnt to do it. Weather it be what we want or not. It is a mission to “unlearn “ poor behaviour. In all honesty they don’t unlearn it, they just choose a better way, however they will still revert back to that way if they are allowed.
Our poor Behaviour here and what I believe to be the foundation of this mares issues. Is pulling back/avoidance.
And when I say avoidance I mean any way to get out of doing what is asked. She’ll start with pulling back and when that doesn’t work, she’ll barge threw you and when that doesn’t work she’ll throw her shoulders into you…. The list goes on.
We need to teach her a better way!!! A better more safer way of being handled, we need to break the habit of avoidance! This is not a fast easy task! I will break the habit, then I will work with her owner to keep the habit broken!!!
You can see in this video, watch it with the sound on. She raises her head and steps to the end of her rope, just before putting pressure on her head I growl at her from across the yard and she goes “ oh crap your still watching” and moves forward. I have already started to break the habit, as if this was three days ago when we started she would not of gave a hoot of if I was there or not she would of just pulled!
A follow up to the previous video with the end of session video how great is this. Beautiful relaxed horse. I absolutely love the end of this video she decided on her own accord to follow me so I used that and made a small end of session with it!! When it comes to horses connection is key!!! If you don’t have a connection you are not going to get anywhere!!
To follow up on yesterdays post!
This little pally mare has been threw a bit lately. A conflict of people we’ll say.
She has come in from a long term client to see if I can get her back on the right track, she’s known for rearing, biting, being “stubborn” and “difficult”
So the picture I posted yesterday was a still shot from this exact video….
And at the time(because it was our first session) I didn’t read to much into it.
She’s an ex mustering horses. And although I do go threw everything from the ground up on any horse I figured let’s tie her up and do her feet. (She has proven to be difficult in picking up of hooves)
So I tied her up and picked up her first hoof. This was the reaction I got. It took me 15 minutes to get all four hooves picked up and cleaned out, she pulled back twice after the second time I did not leave her tied up. However, after I untied her as I asked for the hoof to be picked up she would barge threw me. Throwing her weight around left right and centre. So a few ground work tricks from up my sleeve. And she started to behave. By the end of the session. Mind you I only picked her feet up and cleaned them out for the first 15 minutes I then proceeded to check my ground work like I would any other horse. By the end I thought what the heck. Let’s give it one more try (I will upload this video for you all to watch aswell! ) shock horror! She stood still picked each foot up without an issue. She was still quiet heavy in them but we have now come to an under standing.
Stay tuned I think this one will be a good one to follow!
Looking for a new paddock to call her own!
Introducing “Indy “
Registered aqha
“Daytona splashed in blue”
Indy has been at my place for the past year. She’s super sweet and easy to handle and deal with.
Indy stands at approx 14.3hh
she is a solid set horse whom holds her weight very well.
She’s easy to catch, trim, rug, wash, float, and handle in every way.
Keeva has ridden Indy a handful of times, and Indy has proven to be reliable! I have also ridden indy out and about in the bush by herself with no issues.
Indy does suffer qld itch. But is very much managed with a rug. If your interested in any more info on indy don’t hesitate to contact me!
This little mare came in this week, and she’s said to be a ridden horse, however when her young rider when to ride she got thrown.
After a few days of work, it’s very clear that this little mare doesn’t pay attention, here is a video of her “lunging” now I don’t do a lot of lunge work- in this regards I do teach them to lunge, but i rarely end up using it as much more then a is the saddle in the right spot, and are they moving soundly which is generally a few circles each way.
This video right here is a great example of why I don’t lunge.
When her young rider brought her in she said when she lunges her she put her head up and just bolt around and doesn’t stop. This is true, however if the horse was paying attention from the start she wouldn’t have a chance to get into a “head in the air and bolt situation”
It took quite some time today to teach her to focus on me and what I’m asking. She eventually got better.
However not paying attention on the lunge is just the start! It follows threw to almost every other aspect of work!
Just a little snippet of beetle going in the long reins today! It’s important to long rein outside of small yards, and into paddocks, or even onto trails! So that your confident that your horse will stop and do as you ask, when asked 😇just a step closer to being ridden!
Long and low are super important!! Getting your horse to stretch out long and low stretches him all threw the back! I like to spend a few minutes at the end of every session whilst cooling down asking horses to stretch down they don’t have to hold it for long but as they build the appropriate muscles to hold longer they will do so!
Here is hunter this morning having a beautiful stretch down!
Just a short little video of hunters first ride back from earlier in the week!
I broke hunter in last year in July, his owner has taken him for a handful of rides since, and has decided it’s time he had some more education !
It’s so nice to step up on a horse even after a year of doing nothing, and for the horse to be soft, with no dirt, and willing!!
I honestly try my hardest for my trainers to be soft, not dirty and willing! And it’s fantastic to see that in this fellow! I’m super excited to get him out on the trails!
I’m going to start this post by saying NO, I would not jump on an outside breaker after a handful of rides and do this, but I bred this little dude, I know him, his personality, I know when he’s not impressed or going to be naughty.
But I really just wanna appreciate the use of voice! It can be so so so helpful, I have shown blue at at halter in hand so he knows my voice commands, this isn’t achieved after a handful of rides and two weeks. This is 2 and a half years of work, from the moment he came out of his mum, every time I touch my babies they learn something!
Little Cayuse is starting to slow down and think, he’s a lot less explosive! I still feel him arch and tense up when I ask something new of him! But we are progressing well
I just wanna appreciate this stop! And the fact that it’s almost instant to when I say woah!
Even more so I want to appreciate my little home breed and grown colt! This is his second session 24days after his first (yes you read that correctly)! 😂😂 second time long reining second time in the round yard, first time saddled, second time lunged!
Horses are so super smart and do not forget when they are thought!
Most of you won’t understand or appreciate how special this moment is! But a few people (more so who know Marley personally) will completely understand the excitement I have this arvo!
Here is Marleys first successful ride! Yes it’s only two steps but concidering Marley has bucked off all previous riders when mounting this is huge!
I am so overly excited to know we were not only successful but she was so relaxed during this time, to know we have that mutual respect and trust that she has allowed me to successful climb up in the saddle is such a huge step!
Lastly I just want to appreciate marleys owner, for not only allowing me to take the time Marley needed to be comfortable with every step of training, but entrusting me with her horse knowing the previous history of bucking riders, she has literally handed me the reins and said here you go! ❤️
I look forward to continuing marleys training hopefully being as successful each day as today was, and keeping this relaxed calm horse each session!
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