It’s day one for two year old Shorty. Dusty’s goal for day one is to use the round pen to hook Shorty to him and have the young horse see Dusty as a safe place. […]
Read More… from S3E2: Teaching a Horse to Seek You–Shorty Part 1
For day 3 of ground work, Dusty goes through his pre ride checkless with Pinky Pie. His first point on the list is to use a secondary rope attached to the filly’s back cinch to see if she is inclined to buck in order to work through any issues prior to the first ride. His […]
For Pinky Pie’s second day of ground work, Dusty saddles and bridles the young horse for the first time. Once saddle, Dusty uses a flag to work on desensitizing. […]
It’s day one of ground work for Dusty and Pinky Pie. Dusty’s teaches the young horse to move forward and respectfully lunge around the round pen. He then works on hip disengagement and uses a saddle pad and latigo to prepare the young horse for being saddled. […]
Dusty continues Luna’s ground work by using another broke horse to pony her around. While ponying, Dusty gains control by pushing the young horse’s feet around the same way as he would on the ground. He also spends time getting the young horse used to a person being above her by messing with the saddle […]
Dusty starts this session with demonstrating how he lunges a horse with a flank line and shows his checklist for seeing if a horse is ready to ride. […]
Check back in with Luna after she’s learned to accept a saddle pad. […]
Luna, a ranch horse who just came off her mother, gets her second work. She tends to rear and Dusty shares his technique for dealing with that behavior. […]
Xena is starting to settle in, but she’s still a little wild. Dusty shows how he using bitting a horse up to work on getting them more even through their ribs. […]
Xena, a One Time Royalty, has been saddled 5 or 6 times and has bucked. She is very feely and smart. […]
