How to handle an excitable young horse - live check in

This is a live check-in (so apologies for poor video quality!) with a 2yo filly that had just arrived for some groundwork training. She had got a little hard to handle for her owner after an injury kept her on box rest for a couple of months.
There are some great tips in here for horses that pull back on the tie, and are excitable and running through you on the ground. Here's the link for the safe-ties 😁 yourhorsemanship.com/shop-2/ and don't forget that all these tips, techniques and exercises are available in A-Z lesson form within the foundation training courses of Your Horsemanship online!
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What kind of saddle is that on the gray? I like it!

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You say this behaviour is totally normal for young horses, but it does reflects poor handling. Ideally, the barging into space, lack of respect for and striking at humans would have been dealt with when this 2 year old was much younger. I like basic ground manners to be ingrained by the yearling stage, so then when the young horse gets worried or upset about new environments or other novel things as they inevitably will, you don't get the dangerous barging and striking you see here. They already know to respect your space, and other safety measures like disengaging their hindquarters to defuse anxiety. A big, bolshy 2 year old like this willing to run you over is really quite dangerous to be around