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Many people struggle with trailering horses. Their horse is hard to load or hard to unload or fractious during the trip or perhaps all three. Sometimes people simply do not know what it should look like - sometimes people don't know the target they need to aim for. This video is to show what it should look like - the target to aim for. And just like with anything else "You don't practice until you get it right. You practice until you can't get it wrong." 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. 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 .

Yes IMO your horse(s) should load into the horse trailer just like this. You ask them to go in - they go in all the way - you shut the gate or put up the butt bar behind them - done. That is NOT going to happen without practice. And you don't practice until you get it right - you practice until you cannot get it wrong. 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 .

Many horse owners struggle IMO unnecessarily loading their horse(s) in the horse trailer. How about working on advancing trailering skills so you can send the horse in - rather than leading them in. Yes, tell them to hop in and they load themselves in the trailer and you just shut the divider behind them. That IMO is how well your horse should load because the time was spent to teach it and then that skill was practiced until they could not get it wrong. ----- And if you are leading them in - they should follow you in on a slack line - never taking the slack out of the line - they should be following their herd leader (you) where the herd (of two) is going. They should not be saying - I am not following you - which is simply letting you know they do NOT completely agree that you are the herd leader. There are two principles of horse training that MUST always be followed to succeed. 1) Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. 2) Horses learn what to do by when the demand ceases - when the pressure is released. --- In over fifty years of working with horses and their people I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have seen people violate those two principles OR actually quite unintentionally apply the principles to a bad behavior and thus train their horse to misbehave more and more because that is what is easy and that is when the demand ceases. Ponder on that - and ponder on that yet more. Horses do NOT think like people - but people can learn to think like horses and can even learn to talk horse body language. Do both of those things and your ability to communicate with your horse will GREATLY improve - as will your enjoyment of your horse who now understands what you are trying to communicate with it - because you are talking horse to your horse. 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. 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 .

Combat - Saline Celtic Festival - 8 July 2023 The more colorful combatant, David, turned 77 this very day. We know him from the Ann Arbor Sword club. 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 .

Jousting Tournament Round One - Saline Celtic Festival - 8 July 2023 Our friend Andre Renier competed on his horse Riley. 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 .

I believe a horse should load and unload from the trailer willingly and calmly on command EVERY time. Leading them in and backing them out in hand is okay. IMO sending them in and tail tugging or voice commanding them out is BEST. This video shows the test portion at the end of session one on this topic for Faith the 20yr old QH mare. 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 .

What is comfortable for horses is quite different than what is comfortable for people. These horses have 24/7 access to both sides of a large loafing shed - which I shot the video from. Obviously their personal choice is to stand out in the storm with their rumps to the wind. Meanwhile people would tend to choose being under a solid roof. 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 .

Avi is NOT a Gymkhana horse - she is an all around ride/drive horse - she has done a bit of team roping, done a bit of Team Sorting, helped herd neighbor's cattle, ponied quite a few horses and ponies, worked the return alley at team roping events, pulled logs, pulled sleds loaded with cut firewood, run lots of errands and put on a LOT of road and trail miles. She has and is also helping a number of people learn to ride or learn to ride better. And she is great at giving kids horseback rides. So while she dropped to a trot (seemingly thinking it was silly to change leads every couple of strides when she could trot nearly as fast and not have to change leads) she IMO did pretty decent for a horse that is NOT dedicated to gymkhana with a time of 31.623 seconds which took Second Place at this show. We got beat by one of my farrier clients. ---- We took First Place in Indiana Flag with a time of 15.953 seconds. We took Second Place in Cloverleaf (Barrel Racing) with a time of 25.615 seconds. Candidly there where 4-H youth that got better times on their gymkhana horses. But IMO decent for a non-gymkhana horse. My sweetheart wife thought we would get DQ'd for dropping to a trot. If you stay on course and maintain forward motion you get a good time. You can trot. You could even walk. You cannot back up. You cannot go off course. You get 5 seconds added to your time for every pole you knock down. Just FYI. 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 .

Avi and Jack - Pole Bending practice - 20 June 2023 Avi did Walk-Trot Pole Bending practice and competition with Hazel (12) last week. This week Avi and I will practice up then compete on Friday, God willing. So this was the last run of our first practice. 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 .

Pole Bending Competition - Madie (12) riding Dakota, Luke (11) riding Clara, and Hazel (12) riding Avi -17 June 2023 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 .

Faith is a 20 yr old Quarter Horse mare. She arrived to start a 30 day refresher the evening of Wednesday 14 June 2023. Later that same evening she was taught to yield to a mounted horse and to be ponied off a mounted horse. The following day she was ponied 3.6 miles off a mounted horse to see how she handled trails and road. And then on Friday 16 June 2023 it was time to assess what she knows relative to being ridden and all the handling associated with riding. This is a raw, unedited combination of the 3 video segments of that First Ride Assessment. Candidly I did not have time to watch and see if you can even see well or hear well - I merely used Video Editor to put the 3 videos together in chronological order and then uploaded it to Rumble so you could see it. 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. 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 .

Hazel (12) on Avi (Brown and White Pinto) and Madie (12) on Dakota (lineback Dun) practicing Pole Bending - 16 June 2023 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 .

Kendalyn is just learning to ride. This is literally the second gate she has ever worked. I think she deserves a hearty BRAVO!! 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 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 .

This is the full second session of electric clipper training for Cinnamon the 3yr old Gypsy-Shire on Saturday morning. I trimmed the long hairs off her jaw. Trimmed again her bridle path and both ears. The first electric clipper session was on Tuesday. 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. 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 .

Electric clipper training on Cinnamon the 3yr old Gypsy-Shire filly. This is the entire session - I show how I get her to willingly accept the clippers - I trim her bridle path and both ears. All of the training and clipping is completed in about 14-1/2 minutes. 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. 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 .

This coming yearling mini filly named Elle was purchased by/for Nora (10) about 5 weeks or so before this video was taken. With me working with and coaching her on a weekly basis Nora (10) is training her yearling mini filly - the very first horse she has ever trained. Nora is learning to communicate with the horse mainly via body language. She is getting better and better at controlling the movement of her horse from a distance while the horse is at Liberty. 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 .

This coming yearling mini filly named Elle was purchased by/for Nora (10) about 5 weeks or so before this video was taken. With me working with and coaching her on a weekly basis Nora (10) is training her yearling mini filly - the very first horse she has ever trained. Two weeks earlier Nora (10) got Elle to begin to follow her master (with no lead rope) and stick with her a few steps. Nora made a HUGE improvement since the previous week. https://rumble.com/v2mudtw-young-girl-and-her-yearling-mini-follow-your-master-work-8-may-2023.html Nora continues working to make the mini responsible to keep itself in the proper position relative to its master - and working to improve its understanding of what the "perfect" position is so that step by step (by Successive Approximation) it learns to do better and better for longer and longer. Note that the coming yearling filly is NOT wearing a halter - it can choose to stop and eat grass - it can choose to go somewhere else within the pen - but it is instead choosing to follow its master. Likewise we must choose to follow our Master despite many things tempting us to do other things. 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 .

Cinnamon the 3yr old Gypsy-Shire filly arrived Thursday evening. Friday I used my Start Right!! process to prepare her and mount her bareback from both sides a number of times - in about an hour start to finish. Saturday in under five minutes from right up close and really fast I did a Start Right!! review and then mounted her from both sides bareback. Monday with no review I mounted her bareback from the near side only. I had planned to ride her bareback a few days before saddling her but she was too "dead sided" - too unresponsive - did not want to move. So knowing that I might possibly have to get after her quite a bit to get her to move I knew that might result in explosive motion when she finally did move - so I opted to saddle up, just in case. I apologize that I didn't get the first two times the saddle was put on her on film. But you get to see how I get her used to being saddled via the Rancher Toss Up method - which uses your body momentum to get the stirrup to clear the horse and then ease it down on the horse. You then get to see how uneventful the first saddle mount is on a horse that is started using my Start Right!! training process. And you get to see how I work to get Cinnamon to begin to recognize that leg pressure means to move and do circles. You also get to see how to do a tighter still gentle circle to get the horse to begin to learn to stop when requested. Everything at a walk this first time moving under saddle or bareback. Just working to get them acclimated to all this new stuff without giving them reason to be stressed out. 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. 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 .

Decades back the Lord guided me to notice that common issues with mounting a horse the very first time (or two or three) revolved primarily around the horse misidentifying what the human (an omnivorous apex predator) was doing. Basically noticing that the horse was believing that the human mounting was a predatory threat to its life which very naturally would then trigger in the horse an instinctual anti-predator response to get that predator off their back. This is only the second time we have filmed the process I have been using for decades. This video is raw, uncut, unedited - you see the entire process start to finish with me both working with the horse and also narrating. The horse I am working with is Cinnamon the 3yr old Gypsy-Shire filly. She has never had anyone on her back before today Friday 12 May 2023 when this video was recorded. This process is described in writing here. https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.htmlhttps://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Our first video of this process showed Joel (my youngest son) doing the process on a horse to assess what it knew and to fill in gaps left by a previous trainer many years before. That video is just over a half hour long while this one is nearly an hour long. https://rumble.com/v1ds7nx-start-right-defusing-the-anti-predator-responses-associated-with-mounting-a.html Since every horse is different and it is important to correctly read the body language of the horse it may be wise to watch both videos and also read the description of the process to get a better understanding. 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. 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 .

Second session of electric clipper training for both my mare Avi and also Romeo the fox trotting TWH. Both horses very recently had their first ever experience getting their ears "pasture trimmed" with electric clippers. So this is a second session for both of them. Romeo is still learning Stand-Stay and initially thought he was out to graze on the bluegrass - once he understood he was to Stand-Stay he did pretty good at it. If you would like to see their first session - those links are below. Electric Clipper training - Avi - 4 May 2023 https://rumble.com/v2m3uic-electric-clipper-training-avi-4-may-2023.html Electric clipper training (bridle path & both ears) Romeo - 10 May 2023 https://rumble.com/v2n4vj2-electric-clipper-training-bridle-path-and-both-ears-romeo-10-may-2023.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. 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 .

Electric clipper training on Romeo the fox trotting mostly white pinto Tennessee Walking Horse gelding. This is the entire session - I show how I get him to willingly accept the clippers - I trim his bridle path and both ears. All of the training and clipping is completed in less than 25 minutes. His current owners have only ever used scissors to trim his bridle path. So pretty good odds that this was his first experience with electric clippers. 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. 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 .

This coming yearling mini filly named Elle was purchased by/for Nora (10) about a month before this video was taken. With me working with and coaching her on a weekly basis Nora (10) is training her yearling mini filly - the very first horse she has ever trained. One week earlier Nora (10) got Elle to begin to follow her master (with no lead rope) and stick with her a few steps. At this coaching session Nora got Elle to follow her master at Liberty (no lead rope) all the way around the Round Pen in both directions and began working on getting her to follow at a trot. Basically working to make the mini responsible to keep itself in the proper position relative to its master - and working to improve its understanding of what the "perfect" position is so that step by step (by Successive Approximation) it learns to do better and better for longer and longer. Note that the coming yearling filly is NOT wearing a halter - it can choose to stop and eat grass - it can choose to go somewhere else within the pen - but it is instead choosing to follow its master. Likewise we must choose to follow our Master despite many things tempting us to do other things. 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 .

This video shows how I went about getting my nearly 9 yr old mare Avi so she was willing to have her ear clipped for the very first time ever in her life. https://rumble.com/v2m3uic-electric-clipper-training-avi-4-may-2023.html Avi's original owner had clipped her bridle path with battery operated clippers which did not work well - so she typically just used scissors (I have also used scissors to trim Avi's bridle path prior to this). 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. 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 .

Romeo the fox trotting tall pinto TWH has been in training since 13 April 2023. He initially struggled catching on to do the pass around the haunches on cue. After doing some ground work he finally made the connection and he also caught on to the side pass from that same ground work session. Learning to work a hinged gate is moving to a practical application of the lateral movements he has been learning but is far from having them mastered. Often horses struggle with working a gate - they are afraid the gate is going to hit them OR that they are going to hit the gate - they are afraid to get close enough to the gate to work it - and so forth. So watch how I work Romeo through two different methods of working the gate - this first time he has worked a gate. 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 .