First Time Saddling a WILD MUSTANG

Man he's supposed to buck It's not normal folks. I think he's the most willing not just Mustang most willing horse I've ever seen I only kind of don't trust him not because of anything he's doing whatsoever, but just because he's only Three four days out of holding right supposed to be a Mustang But a lot of these horses like if you were to bump their leg or something right now like they'd come unglued you know all right guys, so This is a big day very big day because he's basically like not a Mustang anymore Basically like a tame tame pony today is a big day because we're thinking about putting a bareback pad on we're thinking that's gonna go Real easy which makes us think about putting a saddle on him And if that goes really easy that makes me think about you riding him for the first time I think so and so we're clicking Right along here so again Jake's done a couple of other sessions since you guys saw him last reinforcing kind of playing touch it on the playground let him go put his nose on things as well as Reinforcing handling his legs and the ropes being around him, and he's just taking it all in stride really So you've been advancing the bareback mounting yep? And so even though we're still just into the first first week of training here things are clicking along really well guys stay progressive Yeah, but you got to stay progressive with it. Yeah, and we got a big competition to go in in January I don't think you need me to do these steps, so we're into the regular horse training part of it, okay? So we're gonna hand the rope over to you. That's good. Get started with them try not to lay down boss So he already knows Jake a little bit better than me. He spent more time with him than I have and Yeah, he's ready to keep progressing and Jake's gonna be the one to put the first ride on so it makes sense for you to Do all these steps, okay, so this is fun. I get to sit back and watch and enjoy the show Don't sit on your butt Ryan I'll be out here working for usual Okay, well when you need me to come in and flag you around just remember So I'll just start off by going through everything he knows instead of just going right into the canter I'll come out here and practice some of those yields that we already he already knows real well, and it's always good just to Reinforce it so all the yields are moving his hindquarters is four quarters Knock all those out of the way perfect just pepper that in like I said, I'm gonna save most of the session for the Saddling and bareback pad That's kind of all the stuff I would just review on now I'm gonna go to moving his feet a little bit and use this as an opportunity To maybe raise his adrenaline of just a touch so I can come in and release him to the bareback pad And he's got freed up a lot in the last several sessions Which has been kind of nice to see because he was a little sticky there for a minute But this where it's kind of nice to have a 22 foot line when we introduced the canter It gives him a little more room to move out and we get to the canter. I'm not looking for Duration to see how long he can last I'm looking for just for him to get a clean transition Because if I try to force too much, especially a horse like him, that's more laid-back as it is I don't want to try to kind of force him into that canter as he gets more comfortable with the transition. He'll start to build You know build his the longevity of it But first I'll just get his body woke up here with a couple of trot transitions And you notice here even at the trot. I'm not begging him to stay in there if he comes if he comes out of it That's just another opportunity to ask for an upward transition again But it can be really tempting Especially when you have horses that are real sticky to want to stay in there and beg them and beg them and use a lot Of pressure to get them into their gates but if you continue to do that it'll just get harder and harder to keep this horse freed up and They get duller and duller and more sucked back and that's the last thing you want for a colt start Everything we can do to release him to forward the better. There's already So many things that can go wrong when you're starting colts But there's the moment their feet stop moving forward they're apt to go upwards and when they go upwards It's not a good thing. We want to keep them forward happy forward and free That's the thing with horse training. You're always balancing I always think of it as like a pendulum and the pendulum is always swinging back and forth And we want to try to keep the pendulum in in the middle as much as we can But it's going to happen the pendulum is going to swing too far one way where maybe they become too Sensitive and sometimes the pendulum swings too far the other way where they become too dull So you're already always trying to balance that So I'm gonna see if I can keep a little more freed up on this side I'm gonna get ready for ask for the canter and Even if I don't get the canter and he just speeds up I'm gonna take that as a try and I'll release then I'll reset so it's not always about getting the transitions if he gives me a try and Decides to speed up another tick That's enough of a try for me to reward him and if I continue to do that eventually one of those times He's gonna pick up the canter. He's done it. We've worked on this probably two times now So hopefully it's a little more set in there Really good. That was nice really nice One of the things I want people that are watching to pay attention to is like I really like to observe What it takes to get them to move out without a saddle and pad on them So that if that changes a lot with the saddle and pad that gives me a lot of feedback that they're feeling a little bit Bound up from the cinch. Yeah, I really like to what you have going on It's a lot of motion and very little commotion. Yes. Yeah, that's a good point because speed and emotion are directly correlated So if horses can figure out how to move their feet freely without Going fast in their mind That's a really good test for their emotional fitness and really good if you're thinking about getting on and putting a first ride on him So like there he didn't get the canter, but he sped up So that was a good try and you can see he licked and chewed there a little bit So that was really good. And so I don't look as as all he failed. He didn't get the transition I look at that as a good try and it just gives me an opportunity to ask him again and work on that transition Reset good. That was a really nice transition Now I'll come in. There's a good licking a chew Bring him back here And I like to especially in the beginning the more and more I could teach him to yield their hindquarters and think in The better at the smaller I can make that circle over time I just I want to keep trying to release him in the center to start to develop a conversation about keeping his thoughts to the inside Really good. Well, I liked everything I saw there and I think Didn't look like he got very bothered, but we raised his adrenaline a little bit. So I think it's a good time To introduce that bareback pad and see how he moves with that I'm just checking real quick rubbing them all over making sure I didn't miss anything before I introduce it Touch where that girth is gonna go Really good Okay, let's get to the fun part Introduce this idea just let him take a look at it Let him take a sniff then I'll ask him to follow it before I just go and throw it on his back Let him get a little curious about it Especially with this stuff, there's there's no need to rush There's there's there's a kind of a rhythm you want to follow that way. You don't you're not too fast. You're not too slow You're kind of right where they need to be and especially You know when you're thinking about cinching up for the first time It's important that you don't dilly-dally, but you also don't want to rush and spook them, you know As soon as you get that saddle on yes, you want to get the cinch on get it put together but you don't want to go so fast that You end up spooking them and the saddle falls off anyways And then you're then you've messed up both ways And so if you can try to keep it as smooth and rhythmical as possible while not dilly-dallying It's apt to go a lot a lot better I'm gonna see if I can turn some of this concern into a little bit of curiosity It forces can figure out that this bareback pad isn't going to chase him if he can kind of follow it It's going to pull out that Curiosity him a lot better than if I just went and threw it on his back and said here take this that's like giving him the whole buffet I'm pretty big into buffets, but my horse is not he wants bite-sized pieces Where I don't shove the whole idea right down his throat So he's handling that pretty well And so the first thing I'm going to do is kind of head towards his shoulder a little bit and rub his shoulder first I'm gonna do that on each side before I throw it over his back as high as you can throw it over their back and They catch it out of that other eye for the first time and it can throw them off guard and then they're jumping on Top of you because they see something out of their their right eye, and you're on their left side So I'm gonna do this on both sides Before I throw it over his back Now gently get ready to think about throwing it over his back Being smooth I can just do a little piece of it at first There you go But it's important to that you don't sneak around them There's there's a balance between being smooth and being careful with your movements than sneaking And so I'm placing this bareback pad on there with some rhythm, but but it's it's not sneaking, you know I'm putting it down on there. I'm letting it make some noise Not trying to spook them, but you know if I'm gonna set up on this horse's back I want to make sure you can at least handle a bareback pad coming up over him like that And the other thing I'm not gonna do is when I throw this bareback pad over. I'm not gonna let my cinch drop Because that could catch him and then he could be on top of me He could catch out of the corner of his eye and I could get myself into trouble It's all little things that add up when you're starting to start Colts And introducing green horses to different ideas if you can keep track of all those little safety things you are You're gonna be much better off That's what we want to hear Good Now I'm going to drop the cinch down on this side. It's about right This is the same idea. This is where you don't want to dilly-dally It's not you know as important as with a saddle, but we still don't want to create a bad experience Over here a bad experience with this Either so I want to make sure I take my time But I want to get this on enough That if he were to go bucking or taking off or something silly that it's on there enough It's not going to fall or slit under his tummy and where I have to get him out of a big bind It's pretty crucial that things go smooth at this point because if something goes south It's going to take a lot more to get it out of him because this is his very first experience with something like this Now I have my wraps. I'll snug it up just a tick good So now that's on there enough that if he goes to do something silly It's not going to come off And now here it's good. Just take a deep breath and just take a minute Don't be in a rush to get him to move his feet. Let him take in what's happening And I'm gonna step back and grab my stick and string just in case he were to go buck or do something silly I have something to get him off me. It's nice. I'm on a 22 foot line. So he doesn't have to You know, he's got enough room there to move out where I'm not going to get in the way And the idea here is not just go send him into a lope Idea is to take your time Let him walk a couple strides yield his hindquarters. You want to stay on this this side of trouble help him Help him through this first experience Okay Now see I'm a little I got a little distance to me. I'm just gonna ask him to take a step rolling There's good lick and chew So there's head went up just a little bit So maybe I'll just take this opportunity to yield his hindquarters could have been nothing but just a case Never hurts to yield their hindquarters and reset and let him take a minute What once you feel like you got that on secure enough? Why don't you go ahead and turn them loose at Liberty? Yeah, cuz it should be a little lower key with the bareback pad than the saddle Yeah, and if he does get upset with the saddle for me and the first time I'd like to be disconnected from him. Okay? But to me you can start to create that habit with the pad on him now Yeah To me this step starts to prepare him for like how we might move him around When he's got a rider on also with a saddle on And I like they're just getting him to walk off a lot of people get excited about getting them to canter off right away Yeah, like just let him Let him get used to it a little bit. I mean he seems really bothered so very bothered Hey, I think you could ride that I think so. I think I can handle that. I'm kind of a chicken I don't like to ride Bronx I like to get all my green lights before I get on one. It's not what you said in your application Let's try and get a job Gotta do what you got to do Yeah, that's doable. Yeah, that's just fine You just keep it up old Casper Good thing is I wasn't too sure how well he was gonna move out. So I'm actually really happy to see him You know, yeah, he's getting stuck, but he's at least he's still moving forward. He's not just splitting in half. That's really good There you go Really good Nice how much he thinks to the inside? Yeah, really nice Give me a good little Liberty Mustang. That'd be cool And I don't have any complaints about his personality. Like I think he's got like the perfect personality. He's curious He's confident, but he's not Argumentative sometimes when they're that confident they can become Argumentative with you, but he's just very easygoing just like yeah, I'll give that a try No problem because you haven't really done anything at Liberty with him No, he just generally wants to be around you and follow you around and I think you had mentioned it a little bit I can't remember just in a private conversation or on video, but how you know He left the facility and then you know, he had 30 friends there and when he first came here He was really looking for a buddy. I think that was a little bit to our advantage that we kind of became his buddy Yeah, he really wanted one Well, what we think yeah, don't try a saddle next I think so I Don't think I'm gonna do that at Liberty though. 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So it's very easy to Think I'll just throw that throw that pad on him throw that saddle on good luck But we still want to set this guy up for the most success as we can Otherwise we'd be doing him a disservice. I'm hoping with how curious is it want to cut a cow All right, that would make them really cool Same thing. I'll rub them on the shoulder first. I Think it's also important to note that if he was scared of this pad I would not move on to the saddle until I got him Very comfortable with his saddle pack is most likely if he can't handle this coming up over his back He's definitely not going to handle a saddle with all the cinches hanging over him. I Think I'm ready So I'm gonna follow that same. Let's check my pad here follow that same idea letting them check it out and If you it's it's pretty good and you can do it the bareback pad and just about anything that we introduce him to he's gonna Follow first if we can create that pattern as we go through and introduce him new things It's gonna create the that pattern in his mind. It says oh this I'm gonna follow this Then we're gonna do something with it And so if you can put that pattern in them, it makes introducing things to them a lot easier Okay, don't be too much Yeah, he doesn't look too worried about it and you see the way I'm holding my saddle I have it on my hip and I have my right hand on the back of the cantle And I'm just gonna try to swing it up nice and slow and but I want it to land nice and smooth So most of my swing is gonna be here and it's gonna be up a little higher And so that I can swing it up and over and gently set it down on his back. That's the goal. Anyways Need a little rhythm so we can see it coming Now this is where you don't want a dilly-dally because things can go south quick here. So I'm gonna Stay smooth But I'm gonna get my cinches ready when I'm ready to put that girth on I'm gonna make sure That it's tight enough that he's not gonna when he goes to take off it goes to buck or something silly It's on there now theoretically since it's not the first time seeing the cinch It should go smooth and we've set that up that way so I don't feel like I have to be Crazy fast and be nervous because we've done some prep work. And so I'm gonna slide down there with my hand touching and Let that girth replace my arm Get my loops ready Okay, got along snug enough. If he does go to do something, I'm alright Let that back cinch replace my arm and I'm gonna put this on tight enough that he can feel it But not so tight that I have to worry about it You know being the reason he bucks but you want to keep it loose enough. I mean tight enough. Excuse me That if he does go to bucking he doesn't end up getting a back foot caught in it Just before he goes to Move around for the first time. I'm gonna tighten this up a little bit more and I ran out of holes So I'm gonna do the old Texas T here So I don't want to have to waste time Getting another loop. I Don't want him to I want him to sniff it, but he's kind of nippy So I don't want him to get his jaw stuck in the stirrup Don't turn him loose. Yeah, I just gonna let him breathe him and everything gonna tighten up just a smidge more Don't eat it. I wouldn't Be afraid to let him stand there a little longer But since he's trying to eat the stirrup, I'm just gonna ask him to walk off and keep him away from me Till he figures out that there's a saddle strapped to him Not gonna be a big hurry to move his feet I'm gonna let him figure out what's happening. And now any of the forward movement I asked for it's just gonna be a suggestion It's not gonna be like a big I'm not gonna demand anything at this point I'm just gonna suggest that maybe he pick up a little trot once he comes around this corner here Like there he just brought his life up a little bit. So there's no reason to ask for more Same thing. I'll just raise my life There we go a little more alive here Okay, now that I wouldn't want to ride Just let him work at it. And you know what to be honest that's not the worst thing in the world because I would be a little like I Don't know if I'd want to ride him if if he didn't do a little bit of something It's like what are you hiding in there? And it gives us an opportunity to go a little deeper with the saddling Now he's working it out Find out if he's a long horse or a short horse There we go He's got a great lope. Yeah He seems to carry himself really well. Yeah To me. I like that better though Like you're saying I'd rather horse show me where they're at then if then hide it on the inside too much Like even though he's he's real gentle nature He's not so introverted that he doesn't tell you where he's at. Right? I like that. Yeah me too. I Don't think I want to quite draw him into me yet. I Think I'd let him stand for a little while. Okay, and then move him around again But I don't know I think he's pretty good. Yeah, I think so, too Yeah, then I'd go back and play with him some more and act like saddles not on him and just move him around and do Your thing. Okay, what a good-natured horse. Yeah, really good Even they're like when he gets bothered he came back. So it's super quick Yeah, we kind of saw that when we moved his pen it didn't take him long Which was really impressive for him to come back down. Yeah, I think that's really cool And like just naturally his emotional fitness is very even keel And would you just kind of go through all those? Like hind quarter four quarter. Yeah, just do some real basic things Just get him in a good frame of mind and then unsaddle him. Okay Call it a session Then I think the next steps would be to like start exposing him to like a tarp or a feed sack being around him Okay around him and on him maybe even start to do a little ground driving with him. Oh, yeah Yeah, cuz it's like it's kind of like starting a colt But it's a little different because there's just more things that could potentially bother them. Yeah That could come out of the blue that are kind of out of your control like the helicopter flying over the fields near the house here or right You know just anything going on because they've just not been around. They've been not been exposed to very much You know compared to a horse that grew up In town and could I also like send him over jumps and stuff because those cinches will feel different Yeah, and I'd like to see him get around the outdoor arena and move on out there I've shown the cattle on the far side. So so we got a lot of stuff. We're gonna still do Yeah, well, that was very good for his first saddling a little bumpy in the road, but that's not a bad thing He finished really strong and ended up moving out happy for him free like we like him to so Now I'm just gonna get him in a good frame of mind Touch upon all those yields that I we'd started with this morning and just try to get him to come down off his adrenaline that He just had we'll keep chipping away with this and with a couple more sessions and we'll see on the next one and cut Why are you so quiet? You're such a good boy. Really sweet, too. Okay now that he's all pretty for the camera Something's distracted him a helicopter. Maybe yeah, but say hopefully doesn't have PTSD Hey the helicopter get out of here before I sit on him. He looks really bothered I think we might have a big scene on our hands This is boring you I feel a lot more awkward on this side Rachel and at this part out Don't eat me Tries to bite me when I get up here. It's like I'm fresh meat Don't eat that Don't eat it. I could fall in love with a donkey if you'll cut a cow. I'd be just fine with that I think I'd ride just about anything if they'd cut a cow Don't you think Ryan? Yeah Never thought about it like that, but sure. I feel like that was one of my better ones Because I've been walking around if you see me talking to myself, it's because I'm trying to become a youtuber So if you see a weirdo Moving his hands where he's walking to catch his horse because I'm trying to figure out why I do what they do