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Reign, the 3yr old TWH filly, started in training on 15 March 2024 and today 30 April 2024 we are doing a bit of a progress test. Testing some of the skills she is learning. Being sent into and tail tugged out of a horse trailer. Stand-Stay for currying and saddling. Being responsible to pick up your rider. Three basic lateral movements - pass around the haunches - pass around the forehand - side pass. Four methods of working a gate - push away walk through - push away back through - pull toward walk through - pull toward back through. Checking the mail. This is a horse being started - NOT a finished horse - so she doesn't do anything perfectly - she does it like a horse that is learning. In the process of learning Reign has logged 121.4 road and trail miles while in training to date - from 15 March - 30 April 2024. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Reign the 3yr old TWH filly is learning to work a gate. She does pretty well for a beginner - doing two of the four methods - push away walk through - push away back through. Reign started in training 15 March 2024 - this video was filmed 26 April 2024. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Reign the 3 yr old TWH has largely mastered being sent in to the trailer and being tail tugged out of the trailer calmly. So today we took it up a notch and had Reign go in before Avi - then after - then before - repeatedly. So how did she do? You be the judge. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Reign, the 3yr old TWH filly had a hard time learning to pick up her rider from a raised mounting platform. So does she have it figured out now - the fifth time we have worked on it? Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Reign has decidedly struggled with learning to pick up her rider from a raised mounting platform. Her first session, which is where most horses have the basic concept very well figured out, she never seemed to figure it out at all - ended seeming totally clueless about what was being requested. Second session she made a big step forward and yet barely started to figure it out - still not where most horses are in the middle of their first session. And in this third session she still struggled at first but then the light switch seemed to click on - like "oh, I understand what you are asking me now." So here is hoping she now is well on her way to mastering the skill of picking up your rider from a raised mounting platform. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Reign, the 3yr old Tennessee Walking Horse filly, has pretty well mastered being sent in to the horse trailer and being tail tugged out of the horse trailer. In this video she does it just out of the pasture - then gets saddled and does it again with full tack on. She will keep getting better and better at this skill as it is used but she has mastered the basics now. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

In this training session Reign was sent first into slot 1 (furthest forward) and tail tugged out - then slot 2 - then slot 3 - then slot 4. She has got the send in part down pretty well. She understands the tail tug back up signal but has not committed to do it a long ways - definitely better doing it just a short ways. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This session to advance trailer loading and unloading skill started sending Reign, the 3yr old TWH filly, into slot 2 and tail tugging her out multiple times. Then slot 3, and finally slot 4. You can see that Reign is now eager to get in the trailer and her anxiety about backing out is now barely evident. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

For part of Reign's training session today I sent Avi in to slot 3 in the trailer, closed the divider, then sent Reign into slot 4 (hardest one). Then I tail tugged Reign out and then voice commanded Avi out. So watch the clock and see how long it takes to load two horses and also how long it takes to unload two horses - both perfectly calmly. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

If a horse "loads and unloads well" that IMO means you send it in the trailer, it goes all the way in, you just close the divider and then when it is time to unload you unlatch the divider, grab a small bit of the tail and gently tug the tail to tell it to back out, when it gets to the edge you vocally tell it "down, down, down" so it knows when the drop off is coming and is NOT surprised by it. --- Reign, the 3yr old TWH filly, is working towards that. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Up until today Reign has been being led into the trailer and then backed out of the trailer while standing next to her head in the trailer. Today, to serve as a good example, I sent my mare, Avi, in to slot 3 in the 4 horse slant load trailer and closed the divider. Then I sent Reign in several times and also began to teach her to back out via a tail tug. I thought the video was running for the entire process including sending Avi in but something went awry and my bluetooth button to turn on the video did not turn it on. So once I noticed the video was not being recorded I turned it on by hand - and you see the rest of this portion of today's training work - which also included over two hours learning to stand tied calmly - and being ponied through the village of Onsted by Avi. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This quick video was taken while riding Avi and ponying Reign through the village of Onsted in Lenawee County, Michigan. This was Reign's first time in the village. She did very well - did not really spook at anything - just very much followed Avi's lead while Avi from experience was solid. Soon enough we will see how Reign does riding solo to and through the village. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This is the wrap up of trailering training Session 2 with Reign the 3 yr old TWH filly. During this session Reign was much less resistant to coming in the trailer than she was at the beginning of session 1 and she was also much less worried about backing towards the exit as well. So she made definite improvement which suggests she is beginning to understand more fully as we work toward truly loading well by the "send in" method and truly unloading well by the "tail tug" method as demonstrated by my personal horse in this video https://rumble.com/v4kfg89-how-a-horse-should-load-and-unload-from-the-horse-trailer-avi-20-march-2024.html Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This is a 1 minute 8 second demo of how IMO a horse should load and unload from a slant load horse trailer OR a straight load horse trailer. By that I mean "send in" and "tail tug" to back out OR voice command to back out. I suggest tail tug to avoid having multiple horses all trying to back out when you use the voice command. Obviously this is not the starting point - rather this is to show you what it looks like when a horse is well trained to load and unload calmly on command. By seeing what it should look like you can then move in that direction by successive approximation. This is my personal horse, Avi, doing the demo. She is a brown and white pinto half TWH who does the flat foot walk but has never offered to do the running walk, at least not thus far. Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Reign arrived for training Friday 15 March 2024. Initially she was shown the high tensile electric fence in the small lot via walking her around the inside perimeter twice in each direction while tapping the top strand of wire with the end of the lead to make it wobble to ensure she saw it. First direction was with me closer to the fence - twice around (the leader should be in the more risky position - this makes sense to the horse.) Second time - Reign closer to the fence (because I already showed her it was safe to be near the fence wobbling about). Why both ways? - so the horse processes it with both sides of the brain via seeing it with each eye independently. Then Reign's halter was pulled off and she was allowed to graze and get used to the new place on her own for a couple of hours with Avi (my mare) across the fence from her. ---- Then I saddled up Avi, worked the gate while horseback to get in with Reign and gently herded Reign around with Avi to teach Reign that Avi and I as a team controlled her movement - in other words we taught Reign that Avi and I as a team are the boss because we control the movement of the herd. After just a few minutes of gentle herding Reign understood and I dismounted and put one of my 4 Knot halters on her with a 12 ft lead tied to it. We then moved to teaching her to pony - apparently she had been ponied before but she did not act like she understood that while being ponied her job is to keep herself in the proper position relative to the horse ponying her - which is with her head next to or very close to the rider's knee - not to lag back - not to try to get ahead. We worked on ponying both directions in the small lot until she seemed to have a basic understanding then while mounted and ponying I worked the gate to get into the front pasture. With Reign closest to the fence we then went around the inside perimeter of front and back pasture fences twice. (If we went the other way the horse doing the ponying would block her view of the fence.) We then went on a 3.4 mile trail and road ride which included a little second gait and 0.1 mile cantering while being ponied. Upon returning while I was still mounted Reign was released into the front pasture, then Avi was unsaddled and released into the front pasture. This video was started just a few seconds after Avi was released. It shows the first time Reign and Avi are loose together. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Avi is my 9yr old half TWH mare. She is my helper horse - helping me with many jobs. In this video she is helping me with firewood. It is too muddy to use a tractor because of the deep ruts the tractor would leave. So we use REAL horsepower instead. Remember to read, study, and ponder upon God's word each day and also pray each day to find out what God needs you to do today and then do it. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer with a waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html .

Avi, my 9yr old half TWH mare, is my helper horse. She helps me do a LOT of different things. On 3 Feb 2024 she helped me haul firewood logs - first pulling them out of a small ravine. Then once loaded on a wood runnered sled she pulled them nearly a half mile home. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!! Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Avi, my half TWH mare, provides REAL horsepower to pull firewood logs out of a small ravine at Squaw Creek. This was repeated five times to get the trunk of that tree out of the ravine so we could then pull it home on the wood runnered sled. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Roman the 4-H project steer got loose Sunday 28 Jan 2024. The owners asked me to saddle up my mare, Avi, and bring a rope - so I could help search - and when we found him we could rope him and get him back home. Some of the owner family searched on foot, some by car, some on a four wheeler. My horse logged 13.4 miles searching during this first phase of the search. We called off the search about 3:30am. Search resumed Monday morning 29 Jan 2024 - after a wee few hours of sleep and enough time given for my horse to eat her grain and a good bit of her hay. In daylight we found more tracks but would lose them when the steer travelled down the hard portions of the gravel road. So the owners called in a drone operator with thermal imaging capability - Drew Whelan (517) 442-7819. It took a little less than two hours for Drew to find the steer about a mile beyond where our ground search had gone. Drew hovered his Thermal Imaging Drone over the steer to allow us to more easily find him in the woodlot. High Tech find was accomplished by Drew Whelan (517) 442-7819. Cowboy Tech capture attempt began by Jack Griffes on his mare Avi. The 4-H project black feeder steer was in a woodlot - so we slowly worked him out into a soybean stubble field. Steer sprinted - horse pursued but sandbagged by rating the steer too far back rather than moving up where I could catch him quickly. So we ran the whole quarter mile field length. Steer entered a flooded area and I caught him there. Then bit by bit my mare Avi and I worked him over to the road and onto the stock trailer - giving him many breaks to keep his stress level from getting too high. My horse logged 7.9 miles during this second phase of search and capture. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Rain the 4yr old Spotted Saddle Horse filly is basically 2-1/2 months into her 3 months of starting level training. It was 6 degrees Fahrenheit when this video was shot and there was no warm up beforehand. We work the gate all four ways - push away walk through - push away back through - pull towards walk through - pull towards back through - and we do all four ways with right hand on gate and then again with left hand on gate. We then, again with no warm up, work on picking up rider from a raised mounting platform off the picnic table, a boulder, and a 500 gallon propane tank. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This is Rain's second session learning to pick up her rider from a raised mounting platform. You can see the full first session here https://rumble.com/v45pe40-rains-first-session-pick-up-rider-from-raised-mounting-platform-6-jan-2024.html Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. You can see videos of other first sessions with other horses here on my website https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.html and that may prove helpful - because every horse learns at a different speed and requires a bit of adaptation in training. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This is Rain's first session learning to pick up her rider from a raised mounting platform. She has some trouble connecting the dots of what I am asking at the start - so you can see my approach shift to try and help her understand. This was a VERY long first session teaching a horse to pick up its rider from a raised mounting platform. At about 51.20 minutes my mic quit working and the video is silent for about two minutes until I get the mic back working again and my narration resumes. I left the silent video portion in so you see the whole training session. I cut out the video of me fixing the mic issue and commenting on the mic issue and resumed the video where the training starts anew - so no part of the actual training was cut out. I could have stopped this session when it was much shorter - so why did I keep the session going for about an hour and a third? The horse was still willing to learn. And very slowly progress was being made. So I kept the training session going until it looked clear that she was done learning for the session - at which point I stopped. Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. You can see videos of other first sessions with other horses here on my website https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.html and that may prove helpful - because every horse learns at a different speed and requires a bit of adaptation in training. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Rain the 4yr old Spotted Saddle Horse filly started in training 18 Oct 2023. This video shot on 21 Dec 2023 (two months into training) shows her progress. https://rumble.com/v448xxr-rain-progress-working-the-gate-21-dec-2023.html Working the gate is IMO a good progress test because it involves a number of skills which must be done calmly and must be transitioned between calmly, precisely, and immediately on cue. And working the gate while the boss mare must be kept from exiting increases the challenge level a bit. So you can gauge progress: Rain working the gate 15 Dec 2023 https://rumble.com/v41ksq8-rain-working-the-gate-15-dec-2023.html Rain - progress - working gate - being mounted - Stand-Stay - 7 Dec 2023 https://rumble.com/v40era4-rain-progress-working-gate-being-mounted-stand-stay-7-dec-2023.html Start Right!! session two - Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse - 25 Oct 2023 https://rumble.com/v3rpij4-start-right-session-two-rain-the-spotted-saddle-horse-25-oct-2023.html Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Rain the 4 yr old Spotted Saddle horse started in training on 18 Oct 2023 - so working the gate is a progress test done on 15 Dec 2023 pretty nearly two months in to training. So why use "working the gate" as a progress test? Working the gate requires the horse to know all the basic lateral movements and do each until the cue is released - then either stand still and await further direction OR if a different cue has been given immediately execute the new cue - sometimes two lateral movements are needed simultaneously in opposite directions such as shoulder yielding right while hip yielding left. Backing only while cued and going forward only when cued are also essential to get the gate worked properly. And of course the horse which moves off subtle leg cues then also needs to when told whoa at the latch needs to NOT MOVE while the rider does the required movement on the horse to work the latch - basically ignore what may feel like a cue when told to "stand still and grow roots awaiting further direction." This is why, in my opinion, working the gate is a good progress test for a horse in starting level training. As of end of day 15 Dec 2023 Rain has logged 133.1 road and trail miles. I very firmly believe that in addition to foundational training it takes REAL miles going somewhere (not just in circles in an arena) in order to make a good horse. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Rain - progress - working gate - being mounted - Stand-Stay - 7 Dec 2023 Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse started in training 18 Oct 2023 and this video was shot on 7 Dec 2023. She is not to the point yet where she can work the gate perfectly but she is trying and in an imperfect way she does get it done. You are also able to observe her on Stand-Stay a couple of times and standing still for mounting a couple of times. So this allows you to see progress at 7 weeks and 1 day of training. To get a horse "well started" requires a minimum of 3 months (generally 13 weeks) of training with the vast majority of that training occurring outside the arena gaining REAL life experience putting on REAL miles going somewhere. As of 7 Dec 2023 Rain has logged 117.3 miles on roads and trails while in training. For most horses these days that would require being shod all around but Rain currently has good enough hooves that she has done it barefoot on gravel and asphalt roads along with across stony fields. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they PROMISE to uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .