My Dad always said to me, “if you can’t get the horse do what you want them to do, whatever you do don’t let them do what they want”. Watching from the state of Washington. Find your teaching so interesting, just like watching you work. My horse and I are part of the Century Club, 81 year old rider on a 28 year old horse, together for 24 years.
Joan your dad was a wise man and you're an inspiration! I'm 58 and hope to be riding the rest of my life. I lost my 30 year old about 2 years ago that I'd had for 28 years. Miss him every day. ❤
Southwest Missouri - the Ozarks. 71 years old and having a horse is a lifelong dream. I love your teaching style and I've learned a great deal. Thank you so very much.
Participated in a Chris Cox clinic a few years ago. Let me preface this with “every” horse was supposed to be able to walk, trot, and canter on a loose rein. Chris rode a couple horses and helped others on the ground. There was a woman there that had an ole soured horse that really did not want to move. (Chris had had recent back surgery.) A woman in the audience yelled out “why don’t you help with the chestnut gelding”. Almost everyone told Chris not to ride him because he had bucked 2 people off already. This horse knew all the tricks(buck, stop, turn, putting his head down). The lady in the audience kept heckling. Chris got on and lasted less than 5 minutes. It is very hard to change a bad attitude on a horse with learned bad behaviors. Sorry for the long comment.
I appreciate your working with a Haflinger mare. I own one. All of this is VERY familiar LOL. You’ve helped me via email with her a LOT, and this video goes into even more depth with sound advice for sure. She’s improved tremendously! Very grateful for all your videos.
Many moons ago, I bought a Halflinger mare for my da7ghters first 4H project. She was only green broke.....the rest was up to me.......I did ALOT of reading and studying. She was a gr-rr-reat little horse.......she liked me and would follow me around like a dog. She was sure footed and strong and lovely. Very different attitude from what I see from the one in this video.
@@melblacke5726 they sure are versatile! I have little boys that live at the house with my barn, and she will cart them around all day long and not put a hoof wrong! She’s the best horse I’ve ever had. She tests me because she’s so smart, and makes me learn. Never anything scary. Love her to the moon and back! ☺️
I've seen this attitude from many broodmares, brought in from the field. Familiar with Arabians, Saddlebreds & Morgan's. I'm in Missouri. Love what you do Tim.
She has a nice rolling walk though… I’m in Tucson. Haven’t got a horse now, putting my kid through college and getting ready to move back to Italy in a couple years once my husband retires (he’s Italian). I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to own a horse again, but I’ll always be a lifelong student of the horse.
Watching from California. She reminds me of a half Haflinger mare we used to have. She was very independent and lots of no's but was never mean or scary to ride. Love watching your videos
I'm in Wisconsin, a Minnesota girl all my life but wanted my horses at home with me so moved a year and a half ago. I have a 19 year old mare, a 6 year old Friesian Gypsy gelding and a coming 3 year old who's a Gypsy Shire! So at 63 lve got my hands full! But lm happy as heck!
Yes, lm taking my time tho and they're pretty quick to learn. The baby is over 16 hands already!? so it's a bit intimidating at times cuz she's 2...and huge but she's pretty sweet. Again lm in no hurry. I'm also not too stubborn or dumb to ask for help when l need it! 😁
Figuring out where issues the are in behavior is tantamount to being able to successfully train any horse. Behavior noticed in the very beginning, from the ground is essential. Cupcake reminds me so much of a horse owned by a young girl who came to me for help. He would just walk off with her....and she would just grab the saddle horn and be a passenger. His ground manners were obnoxious. Cupcake has potential but is so very green in her mind! I hope she finally discovers that being ridden, washed, rinsed, fed, etc, all make for a day to look forward to! The young gal I helped ended up with a horse that was fun to ride and enjoyed being ridden! Glad you are so good at seeing behavior from the beginning and carry thru that philosophy in to training under saddle! Hope her owners are able to ride her a bit while she is in training before they take her home.
I´m watching you from Europe (Hungary ) . Your videos so helpful for me. I starting a 15 year old mare again after 5 years without riding. Really thankful for sharing your knowledge with us. 🥰
I love your way at looking at things, makes petfect sense to me and it will work with all animals. I use a similar method with my rescued German Shepherd who use to throw himself on the ground in a tantrum (hope a horse won't do that 😂) He has been my most difficult dog and usual training didn't work - so I adapted to fit him. Everytime he didn't do what I asked, I found other ways till he understood. He's been the hardest dog ever, but the most rewarding. We're from Scotland 🏴
Finally watching from my home in NC. for the past 8 weeks, I was traveling in Europe and had to figure out the 6 hour time distance to be able to watch. Never did watch live, so glad it was recorded.
From Nova Scotia Canada, no questions yet but I have learned alot watching you and after buying my first QH two weeks ago I look forward to working with her under your video guidance.
Great video. Just watched the replay. A lot of really good topics were covered. Enjoyed the rooting explanation and how to correct it. Also the"you don't know what you don't know" is so true. We have had horses for 10 years and we still consider ourselves 1st time owners. Each one is so different and unique (quirky). What works for one will not necessarily work for the other. We learn something new from them every day and hopefully they learn from us to.
I’ve owned horses for 35 years, but I always bought horses that were already trained and pretty solid broke not fancy broke or anything, but had manners and knew how to listen. Recently in the past 10 years or so there’s been a huge shortage of such horses so you have these horses that are well past 10 years old and still green. I had no idea how little I knew about Horsemanship until I got green horses, holy cow! I’m still learning!
Saskatchewan, Canada. My horse also can run off at a walk. He also moves away from the mounting block. I'm working on that and he gets better every time I check him from moving away.
Watching from Phoenix. My new Foxtrotter will do this to me. She will walk faster back to where the mounting block is then wants to stop. I dismount at the other end of the arena now. She is good at necking reining unless it’s somewhere she doesn’t want to go. Some days are better than others. I’m sure her issues are me as I can be a timid rider 😢. I’m going to send her for a refresher and some lessons for me.
Watching from North West England in the UK, you are fascinating to watch - so knowledgable and I think, extremely fair. I'm a fan of watching your videos 👌🏻👏🏻
Have a horse that decides there is something she doesn't like ahead and plants her feet on a ride out. A dominant horse! Last time out ,circled her on the spot without giving her time to think about planting and managed to walk her out of the turn. Not been able to follow it because of the weather (snow).
Thank you for showing how to fix the rooting problem. My horse is very similar to this one. His mind set is similar to the one you're riding. When I rode him every day for months, he was better. Then we went riding once a week and he reverted back to his unwillingness to do what I asked.
South Central KY. I let mine go to the corner they want to go to and then I will do some little figure eights and then move back out of the corner. I like that you just move her through the corner.
Thanks Tim for talking about the different needs of different horses. Many of the internet trainers tout one method working for every horse. While I agree with that for the most part, you're showing everyone the whys of what's important when with a particular horse and what will solve itself. Great example you demonstrated is being harder on cupcake for not standing at mounting block, where others you just move the block.
I'm watching from Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico ... Glad to have found your channel several months ago ... I've learned many helpful things by watching you train ... I have a Rocky Mountain gaited horse, and a little mixed breed Mexican horse ... really appreciate your patience and how you explain everything you're doing & feeling ... must be very difficult to provide commentary during these sessions.
Excellent video, lots of learning. Great explanation of the symptom and the cause of a problem. And why we treat the cause, not the symptom. Watching from Mallorca while on holiday 😊😎
You give excellent analogies. It is something you have to experience. One can read books, but it isn't until you are actually on a horse. A person new to horses would not understand that the horse is doing something bad. Is this the mare that gave birth to that black horse and the people didn't know she was pregnant so they ended up with a foal also? SHOCK!
I just got my first horse after 12 yrs of not riding because of my health, she a haflinger 17 yrs k , I’m in a wheelchair but have rode quarter horses all my life, she does the same thing wants to go where she wants, I don’t let her get away with it, I make her go the other way, my problem isn’t to my balance and strengthen my legs get better. She doesn’t really feel my cues like my other horses who were used to it., with circles and 8’s help? wants to plow rein , is this a common thing with Haflingers that they just want to boss their way through stuff thank you for your time. I enjoyed watching your video.
I used to gallop a lot of TB at track and work OTTB also. I still have my own menagerie of horses with a few rehabs most times too. I always like to ride the toughest or one I dread last. Yes, I'm tired but if I rode the worst first I'd be tired and out of sorts for the rest. Anybody else the same way?
I have a trainer friend of mine that always has his own horse trained very nice. I can't ever seem to get the time to train on my personal horse. I asked him how he does it. He told me that he always rides his first. He said at the end of the day if his is the last to ride it is easy to not ride but if the last horse is a customer's horse he knows he has to get it ridden.
I'm watching from top end of the Sacramento Valley in California close to Oregon. I enjoy watching you work some of these horses that have different problems. We have 5 old retired mares from when we were younger and bred QH and Paints. They are all 25 to 30+ and born here, and one mule to guard them (that is out of my Peruvian mare and by UCDavis' Action Jackson). (That mule will take a dog out of that pasture 100 miles an hour. Even one of our own dogs.)
Lander Wy..working a 2 year old Morgan colt..( I raised)..and a 2 year old Connemara pony..( received at 9 months..both very different both going great, walk, trot. Not daily..no buck.
I showed my elderly friends ponies for her at a fair in halter classes several times. There were Shetland, Welsh and Haflingers. After two years I refused to show the Haflingers. I was always very comfortable with the others but the Haflingers made it clear to me they did not want to do what I was asking them to do and always did it begrudgingly. So they didn't show well and made me frustrated. Another person showed them for her the next couple of years and I was happy not to have to deal with them.
Watching from Missouri. I have a 4 year old mare, just under saddle. Currently riding in a bosal; I plan to put her in a snaffle soon. She is gaited and has a pretty strong walk, but is usually trying to speed that walk into a trot when riding in the field. I bring her back down with reins and voice. Often I’ll stop her and make her stand for a few minutes, then cue her to walk off. Sometimes works, but it doesn’t take more than a few strides and you can feel her energy building towards a trot. She doesn’t get ugly, just wants to rush. Also, she doesn’t like walking on soggy or wet ground and will root her nose out and away, trying to find a way around the wet or trying to take a different route altogether, required me to apply some real muscle to redirect her. I know she’s just testing me to see what she can get away with. She also tries to choose her path when walking down the lane, preferring the grass. I redirect her to the path, but at the same time half wonder if the grass is just more comfortable. I don’t ride with spurs because, after years of not riding due to my older mare being retired, my seat and legs aren’t what they need to be and I don’t want to accidentally gig her with a spur until my seat is better.
The grass is more comfortable. I would always let my horse choose that path. If it’s more comfortable I definitely pick my battles. But I have the same problem with water and I need to be a lot more firm. I have allowed my horse to get his way way too long.
Gaited horses are not supposed to trot except for the 5 gaited saddlebreds. Since you are in Missouri, I suspect you may have a fox trotter. Please find some fox trotter people to help determine what this horse is doing and what directions you might want to try. There are reasons some thorobreds are racehorses but no Clydesdales are.
Hello I so enjoy your videos and am learning from them. I have a 12 year old 1/2 Arab gelding. My horse roots and so I held the reins steady and would release when he relaxed. It worked really well. But then he got his tongue over the bit. Have I done something wrong or ? Thank you for any advice. Julie
Tongue over the bit is usually just and other tactic for avoiding the bit. I usually just ignore the tongue over the bit long enough that the horse doesn't get what they want by doing it.
@@timandersonhorsetraining when I first got my horse he would do that all the time the bridle was fitting perfectly. He just like to do it so I let him just like you said I just ignore it. He could put his tongue over or under it. I figured he was just self stimulating or playing with it somehow, but he couldn’t maintain his tongue that way I wrote him so he learned to give it up.
Where do you think these traits/personalities come from? I've raised some foals from birth, all the same way, and came to to recognize 3 types: Those that seek out human interaction, those that are totally indifferent, and those that avoid human touch, all from day one. All but one had the same sire, and sometimes the behaviors mirrored the mare's personality, and sometimes not. Genetic? or breed related? Or what? southeastern NC
I believe mostly born with..why does one person ( kid) look at a roller coaster and say YES…and another No Way..same with heights..jumping off diving boards ( swimming when that was allowed)..one goes right off. One doesn’t..one dog shys from say horses..another doesn’t..Abuse is most frequently noted..with NO accompanying..proof.
My Dad always said to me, “if you can’t get the horse do what you want them to do, whatever you do don’t let them do what they want”. Watching from the state of Washington. Find your teaching so interesting, just like watching you work. My horse and I are part of the Century Club, 81 year old rider on a 28 year old horse, together for 24 years.
I love that!!❤
Joan your dad was a wise man and you're an inspiration! I'm 58 and hope to be riding the rest of my life. I lost my 30 year old about 2 years ago that I'd had for 28 years. Miss him every day. ❤
That's incredible! ❤
Southwest Missouri - the Ozarks. 71 years old and having a horse is a lifelong dream. I love your teaching style and I've learned a great deal. Thank you so very much.
72 year old fan from Australia. You supply the horses in my life now thanks.
Participated in a Chris Cox clinic a few years ago. Let me preface this with “every” horse was supposed to be able to walk, trot, and canter on a loose rein. Chris rode a couple horses and helped others on the ground. There was a woman there that had an ole soured horse that really did not want to move. (Chris had had recent back surgery.) A woman in the audience yelled out “why don’t you help with the chestnut gelding”. Almost everyone told Chris not to ride him because he had bucked 2 people off already. This horse knew all the tricks(buck, stop, turn, putting his head down). The lady in the audience kept heckling. Chris got on and lasted less than 5 minutes. It is very hard to change a bad attitude on a horse with learned bad behaviors. Sorry for the long comment.
Hope he didn’t get hurt
Invite the heckler to demonstrate his/her method.
@@rutherose23he did not luckily. Love watching Tim.
Cupcake is becoming" sweeter" with your work Tim!
I appreciate your working with a Haflinger mare. I own one. All of this is VERY familiar LOL. You’ve helped me via email with her a LOT, and this video goes into even more depth with sound advice for sure. She’s improved tremendously! Very grateful for all your videos.
Many moons ago, I bought a Halflinger mare for my da7ghters first 4H project. She was only green broke.....the rest was up to me.......I did ALOT of reading and studying. She was a gr-rr-reat little horse.......she liked me and would follow me around like a dog. She was sure footed and strong and lovely. Very different attitude from what I see from the one in this video.
@@melblacke5726you were lucky. Halfies can be very sweet and personable, but I've found most to be pretty stubborn types.
@@melblacke5726 they sure are versatile! I have little boys that live at the house with my barn, and she will cart them around all day long and not put a hoof wrong! She’s the best horse I’ve ever had. She tests me because she’s so smart, and makes me learn. Never anything scary. Love her to the moon and back! ☺️
Perhaps there is a reason Haflingers are frequently used in harness!
My haflinger does the same thing and when we’re on trail she slows to a crawl because she doesn’t want to go
I've seen this attitude from many broodmares, brought in from the field. Familiar with Arabians, Saddlebreds & Morgan's. I'm in Missouri. Love what you do Tim.
She has a nice rolling walk though…
I’m in Tucson. Haven’t got a horse now, putting my kid through college and getting ready to move back to Italy in a couple years once my husband retires (he’s Italian). I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to own a horse again, but I’ll always be a lifelong student of the horse.
Watching from Pennington Tx. Your seeking advice about horse training/leadership is golden. Finding good advice is the problem. You,Tim, are golden!
Watching from Tennesse. Love "Running way at a walk', wish I had come up with that.
I'm in East Tennessee
I liked your comment about the positive reinforcement. Thanks for bringing it up.
Watching from California. She reminds me of a half Haflinger mare we used to have. She was very independent and lots of no's but was never mean or scary to ride. Love watching your videos
I'm in Wisconsin, a Minnesota girl all my life but wanted my horses at home with me so moved a year and a half ago. I have a 19 year old mare, a 6 year old Friesian Gypsy gelding and a coming 3 year old who's a Gypsy Shire! So at 63 lve got my hands full! But lm happy as heck!
You do have your hands full! LOL. That is some head strong breeds.
Yes, lm taking my time tho and they're pretty quick to learn. The baby is over 16 hands already!? so it's a bit intimidating at times cuz she's 2...and huge but she's pretty sweet. Again lm in no hurry. I'm also not too stubborn or dumb to ask for help when l need it! 😁
Figuring out where issues the are in behavior is tantamount to being able to successfully train any horse. Behavior noticed in the very beginning, from the ground is essential. Cupcake reminds me so much of a horse owned by a young girl who came to me for help. He would just walk off with her....and she would just grab the saddle horn and be a passenger. His ground manners were obnoxious. Cupcake has potential but is so very green in her mind! I hope she finally discovers that being ridden, washed, rinsed, fed, etc, all make for a day to look forward to! The young gal I helped ended up with a horse that was fun to ride and enjoyed being ridden! Glad you are so good at seeing behavior from the beginning and carry thru that philosophy in to training under saddle! Hope her owners are able to ride her a bit while she is in training before they take her home.
I´m watching you from Europe (Hungary ) . Your videos so helpful for me. I starting a 15 year old mare again after 5 years without riding. Really thankful for sharing your knowledge with us. 🥰
I'm from Wisconsin. And my mare had ulcers and would buck before I figured out that was what her problem was. She was in pain. Now she's better.
Fan from NW Indiana. Love learning from you. ❤
I love your way at looking at things, makes petfect sense to me and it will work with all animals. I use a similar method with my rescued German Shepherd who use to throw himself on the ground in a tantrum (hope a horse won't do that 😂) He has been my most difficult dog and usual training didn't work - so I adapted to fit him. Everytime he didn't do what I asked, I found other ways till he understood. He's been the hardest dog ever, but the most rewarding.
We're from Scotland 🏴
Great to see, I like the idea of walking through her favourite place CHESHIRE England.
My grandson are going to have a difficult adulthood using that analogies and I totally agree with you.
Finally watching from my home in NC. for the past 8 weeks, I was traveling in Europe and had to figure out the 6 hour time distance to be able to watch. Never did watch live, so glad it was recorded.
Watching from NC. Thanks for your videos!
Watching from Northumberland UK 😊 brilliant advice in your videos thank you
I learned something about spur technique- how it lifts the shoulder up and rounds her back. Thanks!
Hello from Ottawa, Canada🇨🇦
From Nova Scotia Canada, no questions yet but I have learned alot watching you and after buying my first QH two weeks ago I look forward to working with her under your video guidance.
Watching from Missouri.
Watching from Bowie, TX. Currently horseless, but never want to stop learning.
Great video. Just watched the replay. A lot of really good topics were covered. Enjoyed the rooting explanation and how to correct it. Also the"you don't know what you don't know" is so true. We have had horses for 10 years and we still consider ourselves 1st time owners. Each one is so different and unique (quirky). What works for one will not necessarily work for the other. We learn something new from them every day and hopefully they learn from us to.
I’ve owned horses for 35 years, but I always bought horses that were already trained and pretty solid broke not fancy broke or anything, but had manners and knew how to listen. Recently in the past 10 years or so there’s been a huge shortage of such horses so you have these horses that are well past 10 years old and still green. I had no idea how little I knew about Horsemanship until I got green horses, holy cow! I’m still learning!
Saskatchewan, Canada. My horse also can run off at a walk. He also moves away from the mounting block. I'm working on that and he gets better every time I check him from moving away.
Watching from Australia. Love your videos
Hi Tim I'm watching from Gold Coast Australia it's 4:48 pm Friday. Love your videos. Appreciate you sharing.
Eula, Texas. Thanks for the videos.
Watching from Minnesota
Watching from Phoenix. My new Foxtrotter will do this to me. She will walk faster back to where the mounting block is then wants to stop. I dismount at the other end of the arena now. She is good at necking reining unless it’s somewhere she doesn’t want to go. Some days are better than others. I’m sure her issues are me as I can be a timid rider 😢. I’m going to send her for a refresher and some lessons for me.
Watching and learning from Scottsdale AZ.
Watching from Georgia
Watching from North West England in the UK, you are fascinating to watch - so knowledgable and I think, extremely fair. I'm a fan of watching your videos 👌🏻👏🏻
Have a horse that decides there is something she doesn't like ahead and plants her feet on a ride out. A dominant horse! Last time out ,circled her on the spot without giving her time to think about planting and managed to walk her out of the turn. Not been able to follow it because of the weather (snow).
Watching from Ontario Canada
Anyone else love to hear the one asking the questions to Tim better?? Maybe a PA system tip jar?? 🤷🏻♀️💕
Watching from Calhoun, Louisiana-i always enjoy learning from your videos! Thank you!
Vancouver, WA - I love watching and learning from your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
I’m in Maine!
From UK love your work
From Florida-thankyou for sharing your training techniques-they are really helpful !
Does anybody ever think of driving/hitching as an alternative. Though being able to hop on is pretty nice too.😊
It can be but if that is not in the future goals for the owner then it is not very helpful.
Replay crew, Preston MS. Always learn something when watching your channel, thank you for lettin' us ride along 😊
Thank you for showing how to fix the rooting problem. My horse is very similar to this one. His mind set is similar to the one you're riding. When I rode him every day for months, he was better. Then we went riding once a week and he reverted back to his unwillingness to do what I asked.
Watching from Hahira,Georgia
Love your teaching style.
South Central KY. I let mine go to the corner they want to go to and then I will do some little figure eights and then move back out of the corner. I like that you just move her through the corner.
Thanks Tim for talking about the different needs of different horses. Many of the internet trainers tout one method working for every horse.
While I agree with that for the most part, you're showing everyone the whys of what's important when with a particular horse and what will solve itself.
Great example you demonstrated is being harder on cupcake for not standing at mounting block, where others you just move the block.
Watching from New Zealand
I'm watching from Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico ... Glad to have found your channel several months ago ... I've learned many helpful things by watching you train ... I have a Rocky Mountain gaited horse, and a little mixed breed Mexican horse ... really appreciate your patience and how you explain everything you're doing & feeling ... must be very difficult to provide commentary during these sessions.
Watching from New Zealand 🎉
Watching from Washoe Valley/Reno NV. Thank you for your efforts to teach us.
Excellent video, lots of learning.
Great explanation of the symptom and the cause of a problem.
And why we treat the cause, not the symptom.
Watching from Mallorca while on holiday 😊😎
Love your clips, thank-you from New Zealand.😊
Hi Tim. Watching from Indiana. No horses these days but love your videos
Watching from Punta Gorda, Florida.
Watching from Karabuela, Otavalo, Ecuador.
Watching from Salem Oregon
So much wisdom in this video gonna take me a week + to unpack, lol
Listening from Southeastern South Dakota.
Watching the replay from Northeastern Oklahoma. Good session and I can understand why you dread riding her.
Queensland, Australia.Watching the Replay.
You give excellent analogies. It is something you have to experience. One can read books, but it isn't until you are actually on a horse. A person new to horses would not understand that the horse is doing something bad. Is this the mare that gave birth to that black horse and the people didn't know she was pregnant so they ended up with a foal also? SHOCK!
Certainly no one saw a chestnut mare coming.
I just got my first horse after 12 yrs of not riding because of my health, she a haflinger 17 yrs k , I’m in a wheelchair but have rode quarter horses all my life, she does the same thing wants to go where she wants, I don’t let her get away with it, I make her go the other way, my problem isn’t to my balance and strengthen my legs get better. She doesn’t really feel my cues like my other horses who were used to it., with circles and 8’s help? wants to plow rein , is this a common thing with Haflingers that they just want to boss their way through stuff thank you for your time. I enjoyed watching your video.
Good morning all. As always a great video Tim. Thank you Tim & Melinda for the work you do to help others. 😃😇😇😍
Thank you❤️
Watching from New Zealand😃
I used to gallop a lot of TB at track and work OTTB also. I still have my own menagerie of horses with a few rehabs most times too.
I always like to ride the toughest or one I dread last. Yes, I'm tired but if I rode the worst first I'd be tired and out of sorts for the rest.
Anybody else the same way?
I have a trainer friend of mine that always has his own horse trained very nice. I can't ever seem to get the time to train on my personal horse. I asked him how he does it. He told me that he always rides his first. He said at the end of the day if his is the last to ride it is easy to not ride but if the last horse is a customer's horse he knows he has to get it ridden.
Someone spelt horse wrong in the reading on video when you were talking about turning left more in middle
Enjoying and learning from your video…watching from Colorado!
I'm watching from top end of the Sacramento Valley in California close to Oregon. I enjoy watching you work some of these horses that have different problems. We have 5 old retired mares from when we were younger and bred QH and Paints. They are all 25 to 30+ and born here, and one mule to guard them (that is out of my Peruvian mare and by UCDavis' Action Jackson). (That mule will take a dog out of that pasture 100 miles an hour. Even one of our own dogs.)
Lander Wy..working a 2 year old Morgan colt..( I raised)..and a 2 year old Connemara pony..( received at 9 months..both very different both going great, walk, trot. Not daily..no buck.
Thanks Tim & MaLinda! Kiowa says Hi!!
How do distinguish stress from being ridden to simply mot wanting to be ridden? 😊
Watching from NC
Watching from Fort Mill, SC - just outside of Charlotte NC
Watching from Indianapolis, IN.
Thank you.😊
She is leary of the puddle. Will you make her go thru it?
California
2 miles away from Nevada. I always feel I live in both states.
Nice having Nevada so close! We are an hour away and sometimes cross the mountains to go shopping
Watching from New Market, Alabama.
Hi Tim watching from Oxford U.K. love your videos 🙏🙏🙏
Watching from Scotland.
It's funny. You read her well. She looks relatively calm. It is just FUNNY. She hasn't been schooled. Tim, you're fabulous .team Cupcake
Watching from Växjö Sweden.
I showed my elderly friends ponies for her at a fair in halter classes several times. There were Shetland, Welsh and Haflingers. After two years I refused to show the Haflingers. I was always very comfortable with the others but the Haflingers made it clear to me they did not want to do what I was asking them to do and always did it begrudgingly. So they didn't show well and made me frustrated. Another person showed them for her the next couple of years and I was happy not to have to deal with them.
Hi Tim - watching from Michigan.
Smaller horses usually have smaller riders.....often children who are newer riders. so they really need to be willing and competent.
In Anson county East of Charlotte nc
I'm watching from Oklahoma
Oh! Watched the replay from Massachusetts. I missed the live; was at the co op. 😆
From Mid Coast Maine.
Watching from Missouri. I have a 4 year old mare, just under saddle. Currently riding in a bosal; I plan to put her in a snaffle soon. She is gaited and has a pretty strong walk, but is usually trying to speed that walk into a trot when riding in the field. I bring her back down with reins and voice. Often I’ll stop her and make her stand for a few minutes, then cue her to walk off. Sometimes works, but it doesn’t take more than a few strides and you can feel her energy building towards a trot. She doesn’t get ugly, just wants to rush. Also, she doesn’t like walking on soggy or wet ground and will root her nose out and away, trying to find a way around the wet or trying to take a different route altogether, required me to apply some real muscle to redirect her. I know she’s just testing me to see what she can get away with. She also tries to choose her path when walking down the lane, preferring the grass. I redirect her to the path, but at the same time half wonder if the grass is just more comfortable. I don’t ride with spurs because, after years of not riding due to my older mare being retired, my seat and legs aren’t what they need to be and I don’t want to accidentally gig her with a spur until my seat is better.
The grass is more comfortable. I would always let my horse choose that path. If it’s more comfortable I definitely pick my battles. But I have the same problem with water and I need to be a lot more firm. I have allowed my horse to get his way way too long.
Gaited horses are not supposed to trot except for the 5 gaited saddlebreds. Since you are in Missouri, I suspect you may have a fox trotter. Please find some fox trotter people to help determine what this horse is doing and what directions you might want to try. There are reasons some thorobreds are racehorses but no Clydesdales are.
Hello I so enjoy your videos and am learning from them. I have a 12 year old 1/2 Arab gelding. My horse roots and so I held the reins steady and would release when he relaxed. It worked really well. But then he got his tongue over the bit. Have I done something wrong or ? Thank you for any advice. Julie
Tongue over the bit is usually just and other tactic for avoiding the bit. I usually just ignore the tongue over the bit long enough that the horse doesn't get what they want by doing it.
@@timandersonhorsetraining when I first got my horse he would do that all the time the bridle was fitting perfectly. He just like to do it so I let him just like you said I just ignore it. He could put his tongue over or under it. I figured he was just self stimulating or playing with it somehow, but he couldn’t maintain his tongue that way I wrote him so he learned to give it up.
Where do you think these traits/personalities come from? I've raised some foals from birth, all the same way, and came to to recognize 3 types: Those that seek out human interaction, those that are totally indifferent, and those that avoid human touch, all from day one. All but one had the same sire, and sometimes the behaviors mirrored the mare's personality, and sometimes not. Genetic? or breed related? Or what? southeastern NC
I believe mostly born with..why does one person ( kid) look at a roller coaster and say YES…and another No Way..same with heights..jumping off diving boards ( swimming when that was allowed)..one goes right off. One doesn’t..one dog shys from say horses..another doesn’t..Abuse is most frequently noted..with NO accompanying..proof.