Is This Bronc Rideable?

hey everybody welcome back to another video in this one I'm going to be putting the first ride on my Weiss Colt here the lambo so we're going to see if he's ready I'm going to talk you through the prep steps that I like to do to make sure they're hopefully not too bronky and let's get into it so normally I would be in a round pen for starting a cult but uh he's kind of ready to be started we just finished our Symposium event if you if you didn't come out there you missed it it was a fantastic event we got a highlight reel floating around that you guys should check out super fun horsemanship event but anyways he was in it he got saddled there he got worked on the ground but he did not get ridden and so he's ready for his first ride he's had a saddle on three times I think today will be his fourth time being saddled and my round pen is too muddy so we're stuck in the little indoor here but uh we're gonna make do with what we got so a couple things that I'm going to look at here is he's got to understand steady pressure rhythmic pressure and rhythmic motion now because we put about 10 hours of training on them as a yearling so that if we had to you know have the farrier out and do their feet that their feet are trimmable make sure that we can Trailer Load them that sort of thing so he's had some handling there from us he's been through my program he's a pretty gentle nature cult when Kara saddled him at the symposium he did get a little tight and had a little bit of a hard time accepting the saddle so I want to make sure that I prep that area and uh we're gonna make sure that he's good to go so what I'm doing now is I'm just testing you know if I was sitting on him I would be asking him to kind of Bend his ribs and get soft through there so just trying to achieve this little bit of Bend so it's kind of important to see on the grounds can they just take this like C shape towards me and it's just kind of a softening position horses come out of the box with a counter Bend with their ribs stuck out so I just want to make sure that he can get to those positions so he's yielding his hindquarters there he's soft to the halter so that all passes the tests very good so checking out like I said rhythmic pressure rhythmic motion and steady pressure let's go ahead and check out a couple of steady pressure yields this is going to be my steering when I'm sitting on him is can I flex his head laterally to the side very good so I just want to make sure that that's that's in place come around here whatever you do on one side you always got to make sure you check out on the other side so you see I felt contact right there so I'm just going to hold right there I'm trying to keep my hand by his body so that if he gives I don't continue to pull go for the SpongeBob clip of three moments later there let's go and do that one again oh there we go good another one that's kind of fun to do and you know you're not going to be riding their head so when you're working with a cult thinking about riding them you want to spend as much time kind of back here behind their shoulder and around behind their hindquarters to get them kind of comfortable with that so I like to do this little turn face and follow see if they can kind of unwind themselves very good super so so what you'll see me do here is I'm going to alternate between rhythmic pressure like that's what I was using to drive him on the circle steady pressure what I just used there and now we got rhythmic motion which is which can be kind of a form of pressure to horses if they're not used to it so I just want to make sure that he's reading my intention so my intention is quiet right now even though the the stick has some energy to it and horses can learn to get in tune with that and that's all we kind of know is we should or shouldn't be afraid of something so that's pretty good I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can get this ball on his back so one of the things we try to create when we're starting a cult is to release them to being saddled and release them to the rider to accepting the human on their back and so this ball can be pretty intimidating to a horse if they've never seen one and so this is a tool that I like to use that's kind of fun but it's really big it's noisy um awkward and it's kind of a good tool he's had this done probably as a yearling we probably played with this a little bit in that prep this is only the second time I've ever played with this horse I had my team working with him as a as a yearling and then Cara did the the first kind of some of the steps of cult starting so this would be about his like fourth day of going through a cult starting prep two days of Cara one day with me and then now here we are today where I'm kind of thinking yesterday I got him accepting the saddle better and today I think he's probably ready for a ride so we'll get that ball out of the way so if I'm seeing green lights you know if he's if he's accepting things it's move on you don't need to camp out on one thing with a cult you want to be fluid and kind of move with a purpose and be Progressive with things it's kind of like if everything's new then nothing's new so I'm using this rope practicing just kind of simulating if I was tightening a cinch up and just seeing if you can accept that you can see these guys head on the ground he's not bothered at all uh so that's really good and he's pretty quiet standing still so if he's quiet standing still I don't need to move his feet around a bunch if he was having a hard time finding still uh finding a standstill I would try to release him to a standstill and move his feet more ahead of time but if he's being good I don't need to to do all that so now I'm going to check out a little bit of accepting the human with some bareback moaning he's a little unsure of that what I'm doing is putting weight over his Withers with my forearm horsemanship is more of a journey than a destination and if you would like help and have a coach and a mentor on that Journey so that you're you're not getting stuck in plateaued in one spot and can keep moving forward and following a sequence I can help you do that on my patreon page we post a new video there every week I'll answer your questions I'll even do video coaching so if you guys want to check it out I'll leave a link in the description let's get back to the video now while I'm doing this quick question for you guys I got a phone call from road to the horse oh about a month ago or so and uh they are thinking about having me in there in 2025 so not this next one coming up but 2025. so I'm going to leave a link to their Facebook and Instagram page and if you guys want to see me and row to the horse leave a comment below on this video and send them a message saying we want to see Ryan Rose in 2025 and let's see if we can get that to happen and uh I would love to be able to use that platform to Showcase how to build a connection with a horse how to offer a horse a good deal and uh hopefully make cult starting look like watching paint dry he's like what are you doing up there so that's just part of what we call accepting the human just having that horse get comfortable with a human on their back feeling the weight you know if you just um Mount up from a saddle it can be a pretty smooth and borderline sneaky way of getting on them but if you're crawling around up there bareback it's uh pretty obvious what your intentions are for them laughs all right now when I do a bareback I usually lay on them like that but I don't usually put my legs all the way over you're a little more committed when you do that it's like if you have bacon and eggs for breakfast the chickens involved the pigs committed so those of you that have been following my channel for a while you know that I'm really big on rope therapy getting a horse to accept the late rope one of my mentors Tom dorance who I've just read books and watched videos on and I forgot to actually meet him in person but he's pretty legendary in the horse industry he used to say there's not a bad place on a horse to hang a rope and so just getting horse gentle from things all over their body and so using this rope here I can kind of prep him for that saddle and I just want him to wear it I don't want him to yield to it I'm just putting a feel on it asking him to be okay and probably someday maybe we'll rope off him and you can see this Colt stand pretty left brain he's not getting too bothered about anything so I'm just checking a few of these steps I'll also kind of show you guys some of the prep work that we do so this is kind of a taming test so if I put a feel on this can he yield and give to it or does he go into reaction mode so he's wanted to chew on everything and someday I'm going to be picky about that and not really want him to do that but today I'm trying to make friends with them I'm trying to be The Sweet Spot I don't want to be the bad guy here and so I'm not going to be super picky about about that kind of stuff and uh I think we might be ready for a saddle so let's go ahead and we'll check him out with a saddle and that's where we gotta help him find forward is going to be the big key now saddling is one of the more delicate spots of the cult starting process because there's a point where the Cinch is not all the way on where if they go to bronc and around the saddle could roll underneath them and so we want to be really mindful of that you want to make sure they have a good standstill and because the saddle's heavy I like to prep them really well with the bear with the pad here and make sure that they're they're accepting the the saddle pad pretty good you can see he's not troubled At All by that present this saddle to him no chance to smell it if he wants to he seems pretty good so I'm gonna try to land it up there nice and smooth okay now this is the part here where you don't want a dilly dally so once you take a wrap here right now if he went to broncon it would just fall off and it would be bad but not dangerous once I take some wraps here now it becomes a dangerous spot so I'm going to go ahead and tighten this up just just enough that if he went to bronkin I think it would it would stay with him but not enough that he should be too troubled by it so I'm still going to cinch him up a couple times so I got my saddle secure where if he went to buccane it'd be okay I'm gonna go ahead and tighten it up a little bit more all right now once you're here take a deep breath relax don't get in a big old hurry to do anything and I just want him to wear it a little bit now I'm going to leave him hooked on here if he was you know a little more of a Bronk I probably would turn him loose and let him work it out at Liberty a little bit but he has been saddled a few times hmm and so you just kind of want to ease them around you don't want to push them right into a canner just let them kind of have a chance to be comfortable with it and they still might buck when you Canter them with it but I just like to give them a chance here the other thing is I want forward movement when you're starting Colts their their tendency when they get troubled can be to sole up or go up and so when he finds forward I don't want to shut that down and a lot of people especially if they're a bit of an unconfident Rider they're just thinking shut down forward movement all the time and you really want to be thinking find relief moving forward you know I don't have anything in my hands with a stick or anything because I want to be able to get a hold of the Rope if I have to if he does get broken a little bit good I'm liking this this is better than it was the other day it's got good forward I like it because that's kind of what he didn't have and probably why Cara didn't end up putting a ride on him at the Symposium is he hadn't fully accepted the saddle yet he was still kind of hunched up and he would kind of he'd kind of more rear up more than he would kick out but he just hadn't really found forward see if we can tip those hindquarters away I like that he's moving out at the globe so much better to me getting bucked off a horse because they haven't accepted the saddle yet is a really bad reason to get bucked off and so the other day when I saddled them and when Cara did it he he hadn't fully accepted the saddle yet today's the first day that I'm going yeah he he looks like he's accepting the saddle there you hear him blowing out decompressing the Saddles want to crawl forward on them a little bit so I'm going to have to be mindful of that good all right tighten up my cinches a little bit more and now I'm at the phase where I'm going to go through what I would call my pre-ride checks so there's a few things that I like to do once I have them accepting the saddle to make sure they're kind of okay with the stirrups flap in and understanding pressure pretty well so what I do is I got a second rope here and I'm just going to put it around the stirrup you know some a lot of times if a horse goes to bucking they feel pressure on their sides and that's kind of what bothers them and so I like to just expose them a little bit too that stir up flapping and I'm very okay with that sterile flapping meaning go forward that would kind of simulate a leg cue when I'm on there so if their response is to go forward that's cool what I'm looking for though is that it's not a reaction just wanting it to be a response super and we're going to go ahead and do that same thing only on the off side so this just can be a little bit more scary to them good he's accepting that really well yeah he looks totally totally fine with that so we're gonna go ahead and move on there's just two more things I like to do so one thing I like to check out make sure they're okay with this rope flapping above his head that's really good and again I did this stuff with him yesterday so he is not his first time doing it this is just hopefully going to be the first ride so now I'm just putting a feel here and I'm changing the angle and they can feel like they're in a bind right there when you have the angle of it versus going around their hindquarters with that rope right there so this kind of simulates an indirect rain if I was sitting on him very good good boy all right he's looking pretty good so I'm going to swap out my lead rope for some reins so now we got our reins attached here now we're just going to do a couple of step up and downs now he's standing a little bit funny there so I'm just going to try to push him off balance and you want to do this because sometimes if they if they have to regain their balance when you're stepping up and down in the Stirrup that can startle them so you kind of want to make sure that they have their balance [Applause] as you can see he's just finding his balance there with me up here very good now when we first started bareback mounting him what you didn't see is we would do a lot of this I've just kind of after stepping up and down you just kind of move their hindquarters and just let them let them move their feet a little bit so that they can kind of not get too stuck a lot of times horses will get a bit stuck uh when you're doing these sort of things if they stand still too long you know if you had a horse with a different personality that couldn't stand still and they finally do you may just want to want to go with that good once you're up here just a lot of petting I'm gonna ask him for a little bit of lateral flexion I'm sure he's okay with that one of the things I like about these ring halters that I'm using is they slide around I've had other Cults that I was starting with a regular halter that just had the knot on the bottom and uh if they went to bucking and you go to bend them instead of bending them they would just kind of bow up and I kind of got myself in a wreck one time doing that so since then I've moved on to these ring halters here those lips are a little bit personal he looks pretty quiet but there's just a little bit of tension there we'll just keep an eye on that let's go ahead and ask him for a step again you don't want to just be too too still and stationary up here you know he's kind of figuring out what I'm doing up here um but they can kind of not like forget about you up there but they get surprised if you let them stand still too long and he's pretty comfortable to move around with me sitting on him and I like that a lot of horses are more stuck than he is right there so this is a good deal now you'll notice I didn't move his feet a whole lot on the ground warming him up because he is a pretty quiet cult and so if I if I worked him too much on the ground he could end up being kind of tired and then he'd had and and have more reason to not want to move once I'm up here so you don't want to get them too you know I'm not trying to tire him out on the ground at least not this one if I was being honest so a couple things that I'm looking for number one is overall I want him to have a good experience with me up here so I'm not wanting to get in a situation where I'm putting a lot of pressure on him to get him to move he needs to understand that if I ask him to move here so it's this leading rain start here then a little bit of leg so he needs to understand that but I'm not wanting to to get to spanking him too much or anything like that so overall make sure it has a good experience if he ends up learning to do a hindquarter yield like this a little Bend there a little four quarter yield step in his front end around that'd be pretty cool but just kind of trying to start the start the Journey of being ridden off with a smooth a smooth start I see there he's kind of wiggling around so I'm not going to release that pressure until he gets at least walking forward and for me A lot of times the first ride I'm just going to do walk trot you know the old adage is you didn't really ride them if you didn't walk truck canner but what I found is that you don't really have any steering or a lot of confidence initially and so I you know I don't know what the big hurry is to to get them to do all that because you're really running a risk of teaching them some bad habits so he's a little unsure there good film forward [Music] so that's what I'm looking for just building that conversation he got a little stuck and then he sort of found forward and ideally I'd probably have somebody to flag me in a perfect scenario but my cameraman's busy running the camera he's wanting to wiggle back and forth a lot this would be a little bit easier if I was in a round pen so not quite have to worry about my [Music] foreign [Music] there we go on a little bit of forward there there's a lick and chew so you said that little tight spot but you don't want to quit there [Music] [Music] all right and yes you saw me grab the back of the saddle not ashamed to do that if you need to I'd rather be prepared than lucky so he's just kind of figuring out this little conversation I'm having as there's no release standing still that's where the spanking comes on and when he went forward there and trotted a little bit for me that's where he found relief I already found Ford again and a horse can find Ford at a walk he doesn't have to be cannering or trotting to find forward you can kind of see the difference here with him well in the source has a super smooth Trot that's really nice and the other thing that he feels is he feels me bring my life up he feels me cluck or hears me cluck and then he feels me bring my legs on and then finally I touch him with the saddle strings and that's the sequence good boy and so hopefully this starts to build a conversation with him where he understands that when I bring my life up when I clock that that means forward and if he doesn't go find forward then we'll just add in a little spinker and again you can use somebody to flag you and there's nothing wrong with that I do that all the time but at some point the rider has to be able to take over and ask that horse to move out now I could quit there I'm gonna see if I can get a little bit more forward movement foreign [Music] go ahead and do a turn [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] there we go he thought about stopping I was able to clock and talk him out of it that's what I was looking for sick quit riding ask him to turn good boy so there he's thinking forward so that'd probably be a real good place to release him on when we get a little softness here in his hindquarters see if we can get a little bit of a step backward sometimes this can be a tough one for them at first see if you can follow a feel good boy it's Uber might take a little bit of time to rub on him and uh that would be his first ride so thank you guys for tuning in hope you got some tips for how to do a trouble-free cult starting and uh hopefully this was fairly boring in my opinion that's how cold starting can go if they're prepared and set up right for Success you know and again he's pretty tame and gentle but because we got him team in general first and therefore he was really ready for a first ride and a start so thank you guys for tuning in we'll see on the next one foreign [Music]

Channel: Ryan Rose

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Keywords: horse, horse training, colt, colt start, colt starting, horses, Ryan, rose, Ryan Rose, rose horsemanship, Ryan Rose horsemanship, natural horsemanship, starting colts, saddle, cowboy, western, horsemanship

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Length: 26min 50sec (1610 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 03 2023