Duration : 0:4:42

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We dealt with a bay pinto named Rocket. She had a nice personality, but had been mistreated a bit in her life and did not trust people, especially men. We slowly worked to overcome that with her and finally my dad thought she was ready, he got on her. She was good for half a step and then she exploded. She bucked, almost ran into the fence and was generally just like the bucking horses at the rodeo. Her twisting when she bucked ended up pulling on the cinch strap in a funny way and it snapped, so off went my dad and the saddle into the fence. He wasn’t seriously injured and after some more groundwork, he successfully rode Rocket and she turned into an awesome horse.

Another example is Gus. He was a silver dun Mustang gelding and he absolutely hated people. We weren’t sure if he was abused or not, but he was kind of a monster when we first met him. He’d charge people, and not a mock charge, you’d better start running if he came at you. The first time my dad and my brother met him, they went in the round pen, and after he charged, he jumped out of the round pen and took off. They had to grab my horse and try to, unsuccessfully chase him down. When we finally got him to our place, we tried round pen work but he was too dangerous, so we set him free out in the field with our horses. As long as he wasn’t confined, he didn’t charge. Our horses are what made the difference. Gus was the lowest in the herd hierarchy and so Gus lost his "I’m the King" attitude and accepted training. Like Rocket he eventually became a great riding horse but it took a lot of time and effort.

I don’t want to scare you so here’s a couple good training stories. We got our sorrel mare Sadie from a horse rescue and we all expected her to be like the two above horses, but she was the complete opposite. We put the saddle on her, she didn’t even blink an eye. We put some weight on her, she was good. So my dad decided to get on her and she was fine. She had no problems accepting the saddle. I mean since then we’ve had a few minor issues, but she’s a young horse, you’ll have that.

Fonda is a black colt that we’ve raised since birth. His mother wasn’t ours and we didn’t want to mess with his training since we thought his owner would, so we didn’t do much with him until he was six months. He didn’t like being trained to lead and reared and bucked but did learn that it wasn’t bad. He also had a problem with nipping, like pretty much every young horse but he doesn’t do it anymore. You can put things on him, sit on him, he’s calm about pretty much everything. But they aren’t all that easy.

Cas is my foal that was born last August. As a baby, she was mean. That was just her personality I guess. She didn’t want humans interfering with her, not that I can blame her, but she’d leave if we came near and then she started kicking. My entire family and our little helper has been kicked by her. It took a lot of hours just sitting with her, getting her used to us before she realized that people were okay. However, that has not been the end of her problems. She never had any issues with leading or with her feet, but she still kicks out if you try to touch her stomach and she bites if there’s food around. And viciously, not just grazing your skin, your whole arm in her mouth.

Foals are not easy to train, usually. They can be and it is rewarding if you do it correctly. But that’s the key word. The training you do with that foal is the most important training it will get in its life. It dictates how the foal will react to people and training later on. If you have no experience or are not confident in your abilities, then get a trainer to help you train the foal. As long as you have someone with you who’s done this before and knows what they’re doing, it’s alright for you to learn along with your foal. I hope this helped, good luck!

We dealt with a bay pinto named Rocket. She had a nice personality, but had been mistreated a bit in her life and did not trust people, especially men. We slowly worked to overcome that with her and finally my dad thought she was ready, he got on her. She was good for half a step and then she exploded. She bucked, almost ran into the fence and was generally just like the bucking horses at the rodeo. Her twisting when she bucked ended up pulling on the cinch strap in a funny way and it snapped, so off went my dad and the saddle into the fence. He wasn’t seriously injured and after some more groundwork, he successfully rode Rocket and she turned into an awesome horse.

Another example is Gus. He was a silver dun Mustang gelding and he absolutely hated people. We weren’t sure if he was abused or not, but he was kind of a monster when we first met him. He’d charge people, and not a mock charge, you’d better start running if he came at you. The first time my dad and my brother met him, they went in the round pen, and after he charged, he jumped out of the round pen and took off. They had to grab my horse and try to, unsuccessfully chase him down. When we finally got him to our place, we tried round pen work but he was too dangerous, so we set him free out in the field with our horses. As long as he wasn’t confined, he didn’t charge. Our horses are what made the difference. Gus was the lowest in the herd hierarchy and so Gus lost his "I’m the King" attitude and accepted training. Like Rocket he eventually became a great riding horse but it took a lot of time and effort.

I don’t want to scare you so here’s a couple good training stories. We got our sorrel mare Sadie from a horse rescue and we all expected her to be like the two above horses, but she was the complete opposite. We put the saddle on her, she didn’t even blink an eye. We put some weight on her, she was good. So my dad decided to get on her and she was fine. She had no problems accepting the saddle. I mean since then we’ve had a few minor issues, but she’s a young horse, you’ll have that.

Fonda is a black colt that we’ve raised since birth. His mother wasn’t ours and we didn’t want to mess with his training since we thought his owner would, so we didn’t do much with him until he was six months. He didn’t like being trained to lead and reared and bucked but did learn that it wasn’t bad. He also had a problem with nipping, like pretty much every young horse but he doesn’t do it anymore. You can put things on him, sit on him, he’s calm about pretty much everything. But they aren’t all that easy.

Cas is my foal that was born last August. As a baby, she was mean. That was just her personality I guess. She didn’t want humans interfering with her, not that I can blame her, but she’d leave if we came near and then she started kicking. My entire family and our little helper has been kicked by her. It took a lot of hours just sitting with her, getting her used to us before she realized that people were okay. However, that has not been the end of her problems. She never had any issues with leading or with her feet, but she still kicks out if you try to touch her stomach and she bites if there’s food around. And viciously, not just grazing your skin, your whole arm in her mouth.

Foals are not easy to train, usually. They can be and it is rewarding if you do it correctly. But that’s the key word. The training you do with that foal is the most important training it will get in its life. It dictates how the foal will react to people and training later on. If you have no experience or are not confident in your abilities, then get a trainer to help you train the foal. As long as you have someone with you who’s done this before and knows what they’re doing, it’s alright for you to learn along with your foal. I hope this helped, good luck!

Duration : 0:1:36

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Here is another link to videos for riding and training, good luck!

http://www.horse.com/books-and-dvds/dvds-and-software/639/

Duration : 0:7:28

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Duration : 0:7:33

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Duration : 0:6:59

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Special attention is given to how the rider should use his hands, legs and seat to get a good response from the horse.

The video is ideal for horse owners wanting to know the fundamentals of riding and training a reining horse.

Larry Trocha is a professional reining horse and cutting horse trainer located in northern California.

You can get his DVD, “Teach Your Horse to Rollback and Spin” here: http://www.horsetrainingvideos.com/spin.htm

Duration : 0:7:13

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an example topic would be: how to desensitize your horse to new things
i would love people to contribute their own quality tips and stories to this blog. would anyone here read it?
http://onceuponaponytail.blogspot.com/
check it out, i want more opinons!

would you like it if i featured some Y!A questions on here?

I had saved your question because I did not have time to read it when I found it.

I looked at the web site and I think it looks great. Informative stories/articles that I found interesting and I will be going back to finish the losing a horse one as I did not have time to finish it with the respect it deserved.

I also loved that you picked up the mustang question posted here a short time ago. I saw it at the time and was horrified and hope it was an attention seeking brat with too much time on their hands. But it is certainly a good conversation starter.

So in answer to your question yes I would read it.

Good luck and keep it up