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. […]
Video Series: Season 2 - 2020
S2E11: Pinky Pie Part 1
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. […]
S2E9: Luna Part 3
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. […]
S2E8: Luna Part 2
Check back in with Luna after she’s learned to accept a saddle pad. […]
S2E7: Luna Part 1
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. […]
S2E6: Xena Part 3
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. […]
S2E5: Xena Part 2
Xena, a One Time Royalty, has been saddled 5 or 6 times and has bucked. She is very feely and smart. […]
S2E4: Xena Part 1
Dusty introduces Xena, a two year old cutting prospect with a ton of potential. She is just barely halter broke and very feely. […]
S2E3: Crash Part 3
Dusty puts the last day of groundwork on Crash and shows how he uses a second lunge line on the back cinch to help a colt that bucks find a release. […]
S2E2: Crash Part 2
Crash continues to show how good-minded he is, especially for a barrel-bred horse. Dusty demonstrates how he introduces a surcingle and then his colt starting saddle. […]