(upbeat music) - Good day mate, Clinton Anderson here from Downunder Horsemanship, and I'd like to welcome you
to the latest innovation of the method on our trail riding series. I'm trying to teach people on how to get a really great
broke trained trial horse. When you set your horse up for success. You'll also have success. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) I'm Clinton and I have a
method for training horses. Getting horses to behave is simple. It's training people,
that's the real trick. Join me as I tackle some of
the most challenging situations with problem horses and
with problem owners. (upbeat music) (explosion) (upbeat music) Out of all the kits that I've produced in the last 25 years, the trail riding kit training on the trial is by far our best work
that we've ever done. It's the most I'm proud
of, to be honest with you. From the filming to the
photography to the books, we've really put a lot of effort into it. It's actually a three year project, believe it or not, from
when we turn the cameras on to when everything got edited the books, the photographs, everything it was about a three year project it's tremendous amount of work that went into it. But I'm on a real kick to
get people to understand that trail riding is like any other sport if you want a great rein
horse, cutting horse, dressage horse, jumping horse, doesn't matter what horse you want, you have to train it to do that event. Well why is trail riding any different if you want your horse to be
a great trail horse across and cross the bridges
and water and gulleys, and traffic and all the other things that are trail riding
horses is exposed to, if you want him to handle it well, you've got to training to handle it well. That's why it's called
training on the trail. Even if you do the
fundamental level of my method in the arena and you
have a great arena horse. That doesn't mean he's
a great trial run horse. Lot of horses when you take him out of the arena, the spooky, jumpy reactive, they jig, they're nervous
they're frightened because it's a whole new
environment for them. Okay, so it's important
to take a great foundation and turn it into a great
trail riding partner partner outside with all the exercises and training techniques in this kit. And That's what I love
about the trail riding kit, is that we were able to
build the steps on camera. We actually didn't cut hardly anything out of the trail riding series. What you see as the final product is really what we shot
we left everything in. Whether the horse was
good whether the horse is bad we don't wanna cut it out. That's what has made my
method and me so successful is because people know
we are real and genuine. We don't just cut out all the ugly stuff and show you the tada. Look how pretty I am, look
how good a horse trainer I am. Look at the horse. He's wonderful buy my crap. Now we don't do that we
show people what it is. Okay, and that's the beautiful thing about the trial series is like a diary. Day one, day two, day three, day four. We showed you how it all came together and how if you follow the steps, you run into very little trouble. When you skip steps you run
into a lot more trouble quickly. (upbeat music) What we wanted to do is make
sure that we let people know about the preparation
before you go outside is really important if you
haven't got the preparation in the arena like I like
people initially training their horse in an arena because
is a controlled environment. It's, there's four fences around there's four walls around you the horse can only get away from you so
far or do so much bad stuff. When you get out on a 100
acre field on a dirt road. If it gets ugly, there's no limit to where the
horse can go theoretically. So there's a minimum
requirement of exercises or respect of a horse using
the thinking side of his brain before I wanna get on so I went through all of the groundwork
exercises and fundamental to show the audience that
this horse is being prepared. Is he good outside? Absolutely not. So we prepared Elvis with
three weeks worth of groundwork and ridding in the arena. And then after that the
rest of the training for the entire trial
series was done outside but if you try to train him outside, before you have a good
solid confident foundation in the arena, it just
makes it a lot harder Can you do it? Yes, I've cheated many times
and got it done but man, you gotta be a good hand you gotta have great ridding skills. And you gotta know your way around a horse because when you
shortcut and skip steps, it'll come back to bite you in the butt if you're not careful about it, put a thorough foundation
on your horse in the arena, and when you get outside you
have very little trouble. (soft music) Okay, Mate, we've got
Elvis back out here again. And today is Elvis's first day outside and you can tell too conscious
even looking around a gaze. He's like really on edge today. This is the first time we've
had him outside the arena. So this is a great example
of why we picked this horse meaning that we've wanted to set this up to be as realistic as we possibly can. So he's outside for the first time. He's very alert, he's looking around. He's kind of spooky, he's jumpy, etcetera. So and this is what happens when you take your horse out of the arena. Okay, this horse has had
three weeks worth of training. He's had three weeks worth of ground work and two weeks worth of riding. Basically what we're doing
here in this series guys, as a general rule, we're
following the academy training horse programming people
send us young green colts or problem horses. We basically teach them the fundamentals, and then we use the fundamentals in what we'll call real life situations, and we take it and ride them outside. So we basically spend the first
three weeks of the horse's training in the arena, okay, groundwork and
riding and the next three to sometimes four weeks outside, okay? So remember, when you first go outside, everything is going to change,
they are going to get worse. I guarantee you of that, okay, they're not gonna get better, they're gonna get worse. So for example, with Elvis, I wasn't real happy with him
yesterday when I rode him. That was the first time
I've actually rode him one of my Academy students
did the preparation for me and the fact that It's
what not necessarily that he did something wrong, but he was still too kind
of hot for my liking. He wasn't quiet enough
for my liking, etcetera. But no should he be it's only been three weeks worth of training. Okay, it takes us six weeks
in the academy program to do a really good job. And it takes that for a reason. Sometimes horses are a little slower and they might need seven,
sometimes eight weeks, but as a general rule, six to seven weeks is a good timeframe. Okay. Basically, what we wanted to
do was do the bare minimum training we needed to do to
get by to be relatively safe, before we started training
Elvis outside here, okay. So again, when you go outside, everything usually gets worse, it doesn't get better. Okay, so what I wanna do right now before I get on him and
actually start training him because we're really gonna, for the most part, there will
be a few minor deviations here at the ranch, but for the most part, what we're going to
show you in this series is the academy training horse program for the most part, that's what
we're gonna show you here. Okay. So a good example today is, I wanna get on and ride him and start
his training outside. But before I do that, I'm not going to get on this thing when he's jumping, spooken and
acting like an idiot, okay? He's not doing too bad right now he started to calm down but
when we let him out here, you know, he almost jumped on me two or three times 'cause the cameras moved and the wind was blowing etcetera. Okay, so before I get on him, I wannna double check that he's using that thinking side of his brain, so this would be a good chance
for us to go train on him. Okay, so this is another reason why I like to use the McCarty reins, okay, if I don't have my lead rope, halter and lead rope, I can use this. So I'm gonna move the speed around here. (clicking sounds) Okay, so see how he's kinda
hot and reactive right now. This is normal. Remember, when you get him outside, everything gets worse. So we don't wanna cover this stuff up. We want to expose it so we can show you what to do with your horses. You know We could have
brought him out here yesterday and walked him outside. He went out the cameras went on. And he would have been a lot calmer today. But you wouldn't be
able to see what exactly what we're going to do. So I might skip stage
to lunging for respect so remember anytime your
horse has got abundance of excess energy, and he's real reactive, you
wanna rechannel that energy. So lunging for respect stage two, is a great way to rechannel that energy. Stop. So I like that Elvis is really athletic, but it's a kind of a pain in the ass too if he's not using the
thinking side of his brain. See there, he just kinda spooked what did he spooke at? Who freaking knows he's
on crack right now. Okay. So I'm just gonna keep
redirecting those feet. Okay. Remember, the more change
of direction you do, the more the horse will start using that thinking side of his brain step There we go. So this is why I love to
use these Mecate Reins 'cause it's like a built
in halter and lead rope. Not necessarily worried about the how good the turn is at this point like I do the quality I'm not going to get let him get real sloppy but I'm mainly just interested in just
keep redirecting his feet. There we go. That's it boy. So before I get on him
I gotta get him thinking (upbeat music) Don't forget to check out
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to get on Elvis Now. Now, You know after I just
did all that groundwork he's a little bit of huffing
and puffing right now he's got some of this clear
stuff on him called sweat, he's dropped his head and neck down. Now's the time to get on him. What you don't wanna do right now is take him back to the
barn and give him a drink and wipe the sweat off him and tie him up for an hour just let him get all his air back because
then he's going to go back to being reactive again. Now is time to get on him now. When he's thinking he's a little tired, he's a little sweaty, he has a lot less incentive
to act like a dangling. Okay, so now when I wanna get on him, I'm gonna bend his head. That way if he wanted
to go to bark or bolt or jump forward when I'm
throwing my leg over, I've already got his head bent. So I've got a much better
chance to get him to disengage his hindquarters as opposed
to just getting on him with a big ol loose rein. And that just asking him to
take off and do what he wants. Okay, so again, here's the deal. touchwood on this,
okay, but in, I'm 38 now and I've been doing this
professionally since I was 15. Okay. Touchwood I haven't been
hurt on training horses my entire career. Now that I've said that,
I'll probably do it today. But anyway, I've never actually
been hurt with training. not significantly anyway. I've been bucked off a few times etcetera got kick in the ass once
and once in the crotch, but beyond that, okay? I've never really had any major accidents. And I tell you why. It's because I always prepare myself and I always assume the worst. Okay? I never take chances as
soon as you assume the horse is gonna be good. That's the day he's
gonna buck your ass off. Okay, so I could get on Elvis
with a big old loose rein like this and I get on and I throw my leg over and look how vulnerable I am
and my leg's halfway over, his back and he's looking off and he jumps at the deer over the fence. He can do whatever he wants to do to me. Now, I don't think he's
gonna do any of that. But I always plan like
something silly could happen until my horses absolutely
prove to me they're safe. I always treat them
like they're dangerous. And because of that,
I've never had a wreck because I don't take chances. I'm the biggest (beep) in the world. Okay, I want to make sure that my horse^s are safe and I'm safe. Remember, you can't train
the horse if you're dead you have to survive the
experience first before you can train the horse. So just to be on the safe side, I'm gonna bend his head around. Okay? And don't think that can't happen. What I just described, I had a good mate of mine, that I've known for 25 years of reining horse training last year
got on a two year old, okay, he got on this two
year old big loose rein, put his foot in stepped
over the back of the horse and the horse spooked
and took off and bolted and bucked him off and broke
his leg in three places. He couldn't ride horses for eight months, really caused him a lot
of financial damage, because he got on it on
a big loose rein threw his leg over and that colt
just said Come with me. Okay, do your homework. Bend his head a little bit, foot in the stirrup, bend that head, remember, the bend is your friend. Okay, get halfway up, check that he's not
gonna do anything silly, move the stirrup around, et cetera, then get on. Okay, now notice I still
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and get on the trail. (upbeat music) (soft music) - This is a great exercise
mate its called tree to tree with a three quarter turn. And what this does is it really
gets the horse tightening up those turns and moving those shoulders. Okay, so we started
here for example, okay, so I'm gonna trot around the tree, just like we did before. And horses always have a tendency when they agreeing to bow
out a certain direction like I'll kind of make Diaz do it. So what they'll do is
they'll cut the corner here, and then the horse will bow out over here. And then when you come around here, they'll kinda knock your knee off here. And when you get around to
here, they lean out here. So what I do is I fix that, by every time I come around to the area that they bow out, I do
a three quarter turn, and then head off to the next tree. (soft music) The next exercise mate we wanna work on is circling tree to tree except now we wanna add what we call
a three quarter turn. And what this will do is it'll actually really tighten up the horses turn and get a more round circle. In the beginning horses have a tendency to wanna do egg shape
circles and lopsided circles. Okay, so I'll just kind of walk
through this one over here. Like, for example, if
the barn was say over where you guys are over there, most horses are gonna have a tendency to bow out over here. And they'll come around
this side of the tree, and half ass knock your knee off and then they'll bow way out here again, towards the barn or the pasture buddies, and then cut the corner here. So what I do, well, eventually
what happens is this, when you get really good
shoulder control on your horses, especially in the intermediate
level of the method, you know, in advance, where you start side passing shoulder in shoulder out etcetera When the horse leans out, you can put your outside leg
on and push the horse back in. When he leans in, you put
your inside leg on like that and kind of push him out. But at this level of the fundamental, usually you don't have that kind of body control over your horses. So this little exercise
here is a cool little way of getting a little more shoulder control. And without actually having to go ahead and teach you horse
shoulder in shoulder out at this early stage. Okay, So what I'm gonna do is wherever size circle the horse bows
out, whatever side of it, that's where you do a three quarter turn. So watch this. Let's just say, right
here, he's bowing out. So what I'm gonna do is do
a whole three quarter turn and leave there. See a 180 would be leaving
that direction behind me. Three quarters is kinda right back at the camera again. So to do this, here's how I do it. I kinda do it in slow motion. I keep the shape that I've
got with my inside rein, the bend the direct rein. I drove this outside rein a
little bit across his neck, and at the same time, use my outside leg and see how he did a three quarter turn there. Now ideally, what I'm looking
for is the horse pivots on its hindquarters, and does that turn almost
like a little spin. Okay, three quarters of a spin. Okay, so I come round, I
kinda look over my shoulder, outside leg and get out there. And as he's going around
I'm kind of pulling and releasing a little
bit on this inside rein 'cause I'm trying to get him to hold that shape like Diaz did by himself. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and turn three quarters leave and you can lope to the next tree as well. Stick to the trot around the tree, pause from tree to tree if
you want if you're trotting so again, outside rein outside leg, push the horse's body into the turn. Get ready. three quarter turn. Lope off. I promise you this is one
of the greatest exercises in the world to get a handle on a horse to improve their steering,
improve their balance collection everything. Now later on I'll ask for
vertical collection like Diaz did. As he goes around the tree,
but at this greener stage I'm just interested in
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my favorite exercises to do with the lope because
the horse doesn't know where you're gonna go, you buy every time he leans right, you go left, he leans left you go, right, you do the opposite of
what the horse wants to do. And after, you know, a few minutes, or sometimes two or three days, depending how bad the horse is, they just give up the union card. Hey, Clinton, wherever you
want to go is fine with me. They stop trying to take over from you. When I'm riding a horse,
I wanna call the shots. I wanna tell him where to go. He's got 23 hours a day
to make his own decisions when he's out in the pasture. But for my one hour a day I wanna let him know where to go. I'm the director. I'm number one you're number two. So the confused loping exercise
will really get a horse to reengage with you mentally and listen to you (soft music) He's a little bit fast going down hill. He slowed up a little bit there. So I'm gonna go across the diagonal wanna make sure he's on a loose rein. So when I get here to the center, it's like an intersection. Get over here. Look, get over there ride the horse where you wanna go. Don't be a passenger ride him. Now there's another road
going here so watch. Get over here Elvis. let's get over here. Let's go, Look where you wanna go. He thinks he's gonna go straight. Hey, Elvis, get over here. Okay, he thinks he's gonna
go around here to the right. Hey Elvis get over here Come on. Get over here. I want Elvis to say holy (beep) This guy is crazy. Turn left. Get over here. Let's go straight. I can feel him leaning to the right Elvis he's leaning to the right. So watch gonna get up here. Turn left. I can feel him leaning left a little bit. He's turn right. Look where you wanna go. Wanna let him go straight
for a little while. Now I'm just gonna all of a sudden, 90 degree turn to the right. Now left I can already tell he's
thinking right, left again. left again. Go straight. I can feel him leaning left right now. Go right, Elvis. Come on. We aint got time to be falling over. Let's go. Let's go right again. Come on. Let's get over here. Keep going somewhere. Right again, let's get over here. Come on go. Notice I'm not dragging
the rein across his neck. I'm using direct rein . I can feeling lean and left seem trying to dive left just in. So we go right. So I can feel him a little faster than what I'd like right now. Come on, let's go. Turn right. Turn right again. Now I can feel him
slowing up a little bit. Again, I wanna get Elvis to lope slower. I've gotta lope him enough
and put enough miles Andre speech where he's begging
to go slow he's begging. I can feel him leaning left right now. So for sure I'm going to go right here. Now the barn's off to my left. Ah, good boy, he doesn't feel
like he's leaning left at all. Not like previously. And I'm going to take a right on my diagnonal, you know. So all of a sudden now I feel
a little change in Elvis, where he's like, okay, right, I get it. This is about as fun is. I better start thinking
about what you want. Now, he's not expecting something here. So I'm going to take a left turn. He's not expecting it. Let's do another left turn. I want my horse absolutely confused. When your horse is confused, you'd be amazed he'll
start listening to you. But when he knows what, what you're up to, he'll start getting
two steps ahead of you, especially those hot blooded horses 'cause how Horses usually
pretty intelligent. It's the cold blooded
ones that usually dumb as a bag of rocks and they too damn lazy to start out thinking you. So right now I'm just
starting to push Elvis alone. I can feel myself pushing
him with my mentally and with my body a little bit. Come on, keep going. I like that. Now I feel like he's waiting for me. So last time I went down this hill to the left over here, he
kind of really sped up. So let's see what he does now. Pretty good. (dramatic upbeat music) (upbeat music) I'm Clinton Anderson
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mate we wanna get control of Elvis's feet on the ground? Yeah, this is kind of
a difficult obstacle. Okay, so a lot of horses
are frightened of this in the beginning, Okay. So I'm just gonna take
control of Elvis's feet on the ground standing between me and it. Remember we're doing most of this without the stick and string
and hota to try to simulate that you can still get
a lot of this done out in the trial if you're having trouble with an obstacle or something with your Mecate rein. I would admit it would be a lot easier with the stick and string and a halter. Okay, maybe not the halter part. But the stick and rein for sure. But you can certainly get the job done. Again, I wanna gain control or I'll be speed around all four sides. Bit you can get control
of your horse's speed around all four sides, you'll find that the horse will
give you a lot less trouble. See that? How is real fresh? How he just scooted through that gap. Okay, I'm gonna keep going till he quits, running through that guy
that told me slow down. There we go. heel that hindquaters. I like that just kind of waited
there a little bit better. Now new sides, he's kind
of a little more panicked. On this side. People underestimate the importance of being able to control your
horse's feet on the ground. The better control you have on the ground, the better control you have on the saddle. Ground walk is about setting
your horse up for success. It's about giving him
every chance possible so that when you get on his back, he can get the right answer There like that. Just walk and relax. Okay, so when I actually
start with this one, I want to always Establish
a starting point first, okay, so it's a little hard
for him a lot of horses are frightened, that
they just going to push their way through it. So what I try to do initially is i'll grab a few of these curtains and we have just a rubber tie here and I'll just hold them back like so. What that does is it just gives the horse a little bit of a gap to
kind of find the answer. Okay, so we'll send him through and he has never been on this obstacle a little resistance I'll use the poll here a little bit. See I use the Paul for leverage just then. So again, he says, you know, what is something different
he I'm just trying with his practice in the
Sydney exercise and by the way, we happen to be near
some plastic curtains. Okay, so he's going to
slowly start getting used to there's a there's a
gap on the through this, you can Run through this. There we go. They are like that time better. He walked anytime he offers
to walk and take his time. I'll let him Okay, that was pretty good. So what I'll do now is I'll pull out one curtain and and the
gap will slowly disappear. (upbeat music) - [Announcer] This
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move and make a noise. So the cowboy curtain is a great object because it moves and it makes a noise. But it's not such a noisy
object that it's making tons and tons of noise short flaps a little bit and touches the horse,
but it's not overly scary for the horse. So it's a great thing to get a horse used to going through brush or bushes, or objects like that, that
will touch the horse's side or belly in a controlled environment. You know, a lot of young horses
if you haven't desensitise them to something like that. You take them out and a trail ride and and you know, a branch comes by and runs down the horse's
belly and pokes the horse in the flank. A lot of people get your
ass bucked off that you know what mean but if you've
done the cowboy curtain and gotten your horse used to things touching him on his face and his belly and his sides, when you walk through the bushes or thick brush, there's a pretty good chance he won't overreact to it. (slow music) Okay mates so let's see
what we can get with Elvis on the saddle. Okay, to begin with. I'm just gonna go ahead
and circle around this and get some control of his feet, no different to what we did on the ground, I'm just going to rolling back into it and go back the other way. Roll him back into it,
and go back the other way. Okay, I'm gonna use
the fear of the curtain to help turn him. Remember when he's scared being reactive, use that energy for
something constructive. Okay, move his feet forward, backwards, left and right. This is a great little obstacle to do some rollbacks with. Okay. For example, through here, I
can just jog some circles here. And every time I come around
I just use the curtain like it's a fence, we'll
do a little roll back. Put that negative energy to good use. Ian Francis taught me
that like 20 years ago, take a negative and
turn it into a positive whatever your horse is frightened off. Use that to help teach him how to turn. Use that to help you teach him how to move his feet correctly. Okay, instead of just letting it be fear So, in this particular case, it's not wise to create
a gap over there like I did before because if he runs between the curtain and the pole, he might ram money into the pole because a few times he came through, he rubbed the saddle on the
pole not not a big deal, but I don't want that to be my knee. So in this particular case, if I, if I need to have an assistant, I'll have them kind of create
a gap here through the middle, but not on the side
where the pole is okay, but we'll see if we can get
him through it without first. So we've got him kind
of moving his feet here. He feels a lot more relaxed
now since I warmed him up. So let's just kind of
see what he does here. Now I might actually do this retreat and back him away. He thought about that. gone through that gap
and I say come back here, retreat approach and come back here. Retreat every time you back
a horse away from an object, it builds their confidence even more. There we go. A little nervous there. So I'm gonna go ahead
and bend him around now . Remember anytime your horse hurries through an obstacle, oh jumps, it quickly or panics. Go move those feet
around on the other side. Now I'm going to come back through there we go. Now that was a lot calmer now even though he's a lot calmer and tentative anymore And anyway, he doesn't
have a choice, okay? Because I'm working on my softness working on getting him to
listen to me, etcetera. Come back through again. That's it boy, bend him around The bending him around
is why are you in a hurry to go through there. Don't be in a hurry because
when you get on the other side, there's More work there. And plus it gives me a
chance to soften him up and get him a little soft and good boy and now he's starting to get
a little more comfortable with those plastic curtains
kind of bumping him on the face. Desensitizing his head to it. Oh, I love that nice, nice
and relaxed just there. The secret to get them to relax is walking on either side of the obstacle. Believe it or not getting a
horse to go up and down a hill. Or a gully, slow, controlled, respectful using the
thinking side of his brain, is actually harder than
what you think any horse. Most horses are not very well trained. The first way you can tell
they're not very trained is when they go down a hill. All they'll do is run
the last third of it. So they'll walk down, walk down walk there and then they kind of get real lazy and just let them momentum. trot. Okay, Interim down the rest of the hill. Well, you don't ever
want to rush rushing down the hill because it's
easy for them to trip. They fall over a rock, a
log and then they flip over on top of you. The slower and more controlled
your horse walks through the trail and up and down hills. The more he'll listen, the
methodical take his time. You don't wanna battle race
a horse that goes around the trail looking like that
because they'll kill you. Okay, so get teaching him to
go up and down hills controlled and relaxed is an important
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is basically my tree and Creek area outside now love to do a bunch of training out here because it simulates getting that horse really good about going up and down steep, steep environments, get them used to the natural
environment and our trial etc. So how you know how I
want to get my Horses is I want them to just take their time and really think about where their feet are going out in the trail. Okay? So most horses when they're
going up or down a hill, what they want to do is speed up. Okay, so what I'm do is I'll leave now and go to this next tree. Okay? And I'll circle around
this one just like we did in the tree area. And a lot of horses want to
hurry up and down an embankment. Okay? So what I do is I'm
going to teach the horse I'm going to work him on top. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to head back
into the embarkment. I'm gonna ask him to walk down. Now, he's kind of moving
down here and not too bad. Okay, but I'd like him to
actually go a little slower. So if you're in a bit of a hurry, I can let him and see how he
kind of sped up right there. That's a perfect example. So now as soon as I get to the top, I circle around some trees again. Okay, I want him to think man, I don't want to get out
of that damn creek bed is a hell of a lot of work up here. So do four circles around each tree and then cross the creek again. So basically I'm treating the creek, like it's a big skateboard ball, okay, and I'm just going from
one end of it to the other. I want my horses to really dread getting to the top of that hill. See, it's really easy
for a horse to just run, bowed down a hill and run up a hill, but it takes a lot of thought
for them to actually think about going up and down. So I cleaned this creek out
when I bought this property, and I've cut all these kind
of rocks into the creek. Okay, it's not too bad. He's a bit fast here. Definitely fast here. See how we kind of have tried it up this. So as soon as we get to the top, we go work his feet again. So you'll find just give me a you know, 10 minutes, he'll actually
start going a lot slower because you you'll realise there's nothing but work up here again. So it's a good rule of thumb for circles. Now, if you don't have a tree up, you just pretend as a tree day. Okay? And come over here. So work on this work on
either side of the creek. Remember, horses are lazy creatures, they don't run to where there's work. They're not excited to go
where they have to sweat. Okay? So the whole time I'm
walking him and working on the steering and working on a softness. Okay, now I'm going to go ahead and offering the creek bed again. Now I want him to just ease he says Why? down here? Okay, yeah, see how he's
kind of in a hurry there. I'm gonna let him be. Let him be. And now that I've got to the top again. I'm gonna go work make him work again. So I try not to make him go slow. I want to let them offer that to me. And that We'll just give
me a few minutes here. Horses will always pick the the lesser of the two evils okay. So if it's easy to take the time and walk as opposed to get
Hurry up the other side of the creek or the hill, believe me, they'll take it and you can do more than two trees two trees is just a good
rule of thumb for circles around two trees. Okay, now I'm gonna head off
here to my next gulley bring you back to walk. So let's see what he does here. He's kind of marching down here. Way terrible, terrible see this here. He's way big of a hurry to get to the top. So because he really tried it off when I get to the top
gonna bend him around. I'm gonna make this a little more intense. And I'm actually gonna go out strike back where I came down. Okay? Because I was really out he
really hurried way too much on that one. So I'm going to go back down
the hill and up the same gully. Okay, so I'm going to
come back down the hill. He just said, Clinton Come with me. And that's very normal
what horses will do. Ah ha, Good boy. Good boy, Elvis. That's the first time he
said, are you (beep) me we actually have to go
down the creek again. That's perfect. Good boy. That's the first time he said Are you sure we have to be
in a hurry to get down there? I just see work over the other side. - [Announcer] Next week
on Downunder Horsemanship, anything that moves and makes a noise. Most horses that are not very well trained are going to be scared of it. It's not their fault. It's an instinct, okay. It's how I've stayed alive
for you know, a long, long time thousands of years. Okay. So we're not going
to paddle obviously when the horse will It
makes a noise it splashes it scary form, instead of trying
to be a direct line thinker and get them to go
straight in that puddle, go around the puddle. Okay, and every time you roll back, you get a little bit closer to that water a little bit closer again. A little bit closer
again until eventually, he'll take a step in there. Like I'm not gonna ask him to go in and he'll just volunteer. I promise you. They're a little bit right
then as soon as he dies, I'll take him out of it. (upbeat music)
