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60 Days

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S2E36: Lexi Ride 6

S2E35: Ground Driving Lexi Before Ride 2

S2E34: Ride 1 on Lexi

Dusty helps Garrett Oland put the first ride on Lexi.

S2E33: Cinching a Pad on Lexi

Dusty works on ground work with Lexi and gets a pad with a cinch on her.

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60 Days

Follow a variety of horses through their initial rides. This series is completely raw and unedited; we don’t remove the bumps. Colt starting, even on the smoothest days, never goes as planned. Dusty Whitford shows you how to overcome each training obstacle to put on the most important rides in a horse’s career. The first ride is the most important, followed by the second.

About the Trainer

Dusty Whitford

Dusty Whitford (Glen Rose, Texas) has been a professional colt starter for 25 years. He has developed a system for starting colts that eliminates human answers and relies on answers that come from the way horses think. 6 years ago he began working for Hall of Fame trainers and began his career as a cutting and cow horse specialist. He has since seen finalists from his program in many major futurities. “Forward motion is the answer to 99% of Colt starting problems” -Dusty

S2E1: Freddie Day 1

Dusty introduces a new colt for the 2023, Freddie. His first work he gets Freddie hooked up to him and works through getting him to change directions by turning towards him, not away.

Dusty works on using a flag with Freddie and gets the saddle pad on him.

Dusty gets Freddie saddled and adds the back cinch and chaps to prepare Freddie for his first ride. He also introduces the snaffle so Freddie can get familiar with how to pack it in his mouth.

S2E4: Freddie Ride One

Dusty puts the first ride on Freddie. He emphasizes why it's important to have a ground person and why he gets from the walk to the trot and lope.

S2E5: Freddie’s Final Day in Round Pen

Dusty rides Freddie in the small round pen one last time without the use of a ground person. He prepares him for his first ride in the big outdoor pen.

S2E6: Riding Freddie in the Big Pen and Tracking a Cow

Dusty rides Freddie in the big pen after a rough day where Freddie wanted to buck. They overcome reactiveness, develop guiding and track a cow to end on a positive note that makes Freddie confident with riding.

S2E7: Introducing Queen L (Eloise)

Dusty introduces a new horse that came from the NCHA Futurity Western Bloodstock sale. He spends day one hooking her up to him.

S2E8: Freddie in the Big Pen

Dusty works Freddie in the big round pen and ends with teaching gate opening and closing.

S2E9: Saddling Queen L

Dusty walks through the first saddling for Queen L. He emphasizes the points to make it a positive and relaxed situation.

S2E10: Queen L Final Groundwork Before First Ride

Dusty goes through the final preparation stages to see if Queen L is ready for ride number one.

S2E11: Queen L Ride 1

Dusty puts the first ride on Queen L

S2E12: Queen L Ride Three

Dusty puts ride three on Queen L and uses a ground person in the arena as well.

S2E13: Queen L Round Pen

Dusty continues to ride Eloise in the round pen with a ground person. He also begins to teach her to back up.

S2E14: Queen L First Ride in the Big Pen

S2E15: Queen L in the Big Pen with Distractions

S2E16: Ground Driving Eloise

Dusty works on ground driving after he has spent enough time in the saddle that he feels it will benefit the horse.

S2E17: Final Ride Before Cutting Horse Series

Dusty rides Eloise in the big pen and gets her ready to work a cow. Follow her training in the Cutting Horse series!

S2E18: Introducing Macie and Hooking Her Up in the Round Pen

Dusty works with Macie for the first time in the round pen and gets her thinking about putting her attention on him

S2E19: Saddling Macie

Dusty saddles Macie for the second time and puts a back cinch on. He also works on getting her to think through stressors.

S2E20: First Ride on Camera

S2E21: Riding Macie with a Ground Person

S2E22; Macie Final Ride in Breaking Pen

S2E23: Macie Working out of the Breaking Pen

S2E24: Riding Macie in the Big Outdoor

Dusty rides Macie in the large outdoor pen and introduces a German martingale and gets her ready to track a cow for the first time.

S2E25: Day One with Scarlett

Dusty begins ground work with Scarlett.

S2E26: Saddling Scarlett

S2E27: First Ride on Scarlett

Dusty puts the first ride on Scarlett and also works through her being scared and reactive.

S2E28: Scarlett Ride 4

Dusty rides Scarlett in the round pen and begins to use less ground person help.

S2E29: Scarlett’s First Ride in the Big Pen

Dusty takes Scarlett to the big pen for the first time and works on helping her overcome fears and process new things that she encounters in the arena.

S2E30: Ground Driving Scarlett

S2E31: Final Ride on Scarlett

Dusty rides Scarlett in the big outdoor pen and goes through various aspects of riding a colt. He also opens a gate and brings a cow in the arena.

S2E32: Halter Breaking Lexi

Dusty starts working with a new filly that has been unhandled and is afraid of people. He works with her in her pen and shows how he works on her thought process.

S2E33: Cinching a Pad on Lexi

Dusty works on ground work with Lexi and gets a pad with a cinch on her.

S2E34: Ride 1 on Lexi

Dusty helps Garrett Oland put the first ride on Lexi.

S2E35: Ground Driving Lexi Before Ride 2

S2E36: Lexi Ride 6