Chinaco: Going Back to the Halter

[Music] [Music] you're gonna watch them find their children that's a polite way to come on the bunch of cows now over time if you did this i would be half the distance i am now and they would just walk off and then after that they would just stand while i rode by them not through them so this is how it starts my colt this is his second day around cattle so same thing i don't want to overwhelm him and i haven't got any place to be right now so he gets to watch this [Applause] that's that k diamond cow right there she's got a blackboard cat [Music] that's brian's sister you can hear them calves they're talking if you look right on the ground down here those little brown bunches right there that's dried out cured hillary highest protein seed on the desert right there [Music] now the beauty of what we're doing today is that they're going to mother up and disappear and we're not going to go get them so that's another level of no pressure they feel compelled to leave when you show up and pretty soon they won't feel compelled to leave since we're on the subject the reason we're here this morning is yesterday we put these cattle on water and chinaco here when i went across the creek he figured out there's no way and heli could cross it exact same creek he used to cross when i packed him you might recognize this country so i was in my hakamore and i just let him jump it then i walked home knowing that this morning i would be getting up early leaving the house and i headed this way and now i've got a halter on because i don't like schooling a horse for a habit like not wanting to cross water in a basalt that's a good way to ruin the hackamore mentality but i can use this halter and if you'll notice i cut one of the strands out of the nose so now i get all the leverage i need anything i want to do without ruining the effect of a ball saw and i've i've wrote him enough that it isn't like the first time i wrote him outside he still he understands the book all he understands the halter so the foundation's here on that note when we talk about bridal horses i've seen lots of guys they'll get to a corral they'll hang their spade bit on the fence and they'll get their their get down rope and rig up a basalito into a hackamore and go ahead and work cattle and ship and everything else so they don't tear their bridle up on some bed spring propane tank corral now we have literally seen propane tanks lined up side by side standing upright with hay string tying them at the top and that was considered a corel the funny part was he actually painted them individually so you never know okay okay folks i'm just gonna go over here and to the creek and start schooling him on crossing it and we'll go from there so yeah for those of you that are curious this taller plant is called vetch and that's what the bees love we've got bees down uh hives down the end of the pasture and of course the smaller ones are cottonwoods but now this what i'm trying to do is less hands in left foot right foot left foot right foot left foot right foot that's where i'm headed he already knows what's going on and this bank will make him uncomfortable if you notice every time i bend his head i let go i don't hang on his head so he gets to decide i see his mind watching now this is right about where he did the high jump yesterday so for the human and i know this happens a lot of humans or my horse won't cross water a two-hour wreck uh had to get your uncle bubba there's all kinds of stories well what i'm going to tell you a story about is penguins while i'm working and uh we went to panguitches last weekend and i got to tell you it was a classic trip it was really fun and the town of pangwich which means big fish is in utah and it's off of highway 89 which is beautiful now you see how he's stumbling around what it boils down to is would you rather just walk through the water and up and down or do you want to stumble every time you come out that's what he gets to pick now remember i was here yesterday and he jumped over the whole thing that's the now watch his right hand leg that's where he runs into trouble you don't like that so anyway panguitch has some of the nicest people ever meet it's real nice little small town and one of the main things was i liked was that it was there was no chain food stores like burger king and mcdonald's it was mom and pop restaurants and they were all good and the motels there was no chains it was all mom and pop now remember it's uncomfortable on the edge of the bank it's more comfortable right here so what i'm getting at is that jason and his father his father made lamb and stew and dutch oven cobbler and we just had an absolute ball and i think that's right one reason i do small clinics this is a roping clinic and everybody was involved and what i do is i i had probably three guys that were pretty ropey and a bunch of guys that were just trying to figure it out so i got them going and the guys that knew how to rope were more than glad more than glad to help the guys that didn't know how and that's what makes it fun for me because now nobody thinks they're special and we just spent the day having fun is what it amounts to now the triple c arena is right on the edge of town they had a it's called cowboy and cowgirl week so they had barrel racing team roping trail class i don't know what all and a horse sailing it was just everything was top drawer and so that the arena itself is a really it's a full setup i've never been to a place where you got three three arenas one indoor two outdoor and us being peasants and heathens they put us in the corner which is perfect for us because there's it's not like i have busloads of people coming to watch our clinics and um we just had a ball made a day out of it now the the main thing i wanted to tell you once again is that we're very fortunate i got to connect a bunch of dots personally because on the way over we stopped and got our friend mike and red rock outside of vegas and that's where the old spanish trail the guys that used to steal or buy horses they'd stop there on the way back to santa fe new mexico and mike he's his outfits right on the where the where the springs were where they watered these horses anywhere from 300 to a thousand and then they left there and had to head north to get around the colorado and here we are on the way to panguitch and i see a sign that says old spanish trail on it so we went across it again the way them guys headed north so that was special and then we were standing on the street waiting to eat there was a guy came pulled over his car and got out and come over and recognized us and i wanted to say hello to me and thank us for the youtubes so that was pretty special and then where we're standing doing the roping you know by the way this horse is processing right now you know if i was all focused on this horse it'd take me twice as long now it was worth getting up early trotting out from the house coming all the way down here just to get this okay what i wanted to tell you is when we were doing the roping there was a piece of land right next to us literally it was a bunch of grass and the guy that owns it's in maine when he found out we were coming to panguitch he called the man that runs the triple c arena and told him about us and it's that's why the youtube is so much fun for us because i mean what are the odds of a guy in maine having the land next to where we were standing so that was pretty neat and then on that note i called him up and we're gonna i'll be going back there when people quit being stupid and i can actually ride a plane but um it's just interesting to me about history and people and all the things that i really enjoy they get they all got connected on this trip so deb and i had a really good time you'll see a video pretty quick on it there was a real highlight of a young man that's either headed for the pbr he's going to be president i don't know which but anyway that's just a sneak preview so now this colt needs to go up and down this creek and that's where we're headed there is no options it's forward you can walk in water now you can appreciate why i don't do this in a hackamore and it's all about my spur this is uncomfortable here see me giving the slack this is not the place you want to be there's no different trailer loading he's going to figure out the best place in california standing in that creek another dot i forgot to connect was that our friends ben and shelby flew out from georgia we picked them up in vegas and took them with us and so they helped with the clinic which was a real plus for us and we all just kind of had a ball so i want to thank ben and shelby for the help they gave us now right where i'm standing this creek goes underground right here it's typically 500 yards farther that way but right here she goes underground and you don't see it again but where it comes under the fence onto the property is probably running 20 gallons a minute now this is just a prelim when this is done is when he'll walk across back and forth we're just making it blatantly obvious that you don't need to worry about it now we'll leave and then we'll come back in changes the dynamics 100 the dog is part of it it's like too bad you're going to get used to that and once again this is why this is done in a halter you're gonna do a slide stop and a creek now look there now it's over absolutely done when i come back here again i'll be in a hackamore if i think it's going to fall apart it will fall apart but i think you know me well enough to know that i've already crossed the creek when i get out of bed that morning it's always nice to have a dog for a prop so anyway that's the deal we want to say thank you to jason and everybody and pangwich everybody we were treated like kings and we'll be looking forward to going back next year okay folks that's it thank you [Music]

Channel: Pat & Deb Puckett

Views: 8,590

Rating: 4.9738135 out of 5

Keywords: Pat Puckett, The Disciplined Ride, Chinaco, Jaquima a Freno, Making a Bridle Horse, The Bosal, Horsemanship, Deb Puckett

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Length: 17min 33sec (1053 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021