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Saddling and first ride on Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse - 26 Oct 2023 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. Rain had a traumatic experience the last time she had a saddle on her back prior to this. So I work hard to help her see that this time around all is calm and right so she can have confidence. I apologize that I rode out of camera view a number of times. I generally have no camera man - just my phone on a tripod aimed where I hope it is pointed so it captures what is happening visually and also what I am saying. It caught quite a bit of the session until I started riding at a walk - after that I managed to get out of view of the phone camera a number of times - sorry. But I do hope you can learn from the video nonetheless and I think you probably can. 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/ .

Start Right!! session two in light rain on 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 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. The previous day during the first Start Right!! session it took about 40 minutes to fully prepare Rain for me to bareback mount and sit up on Rain the first time while she stood like a statue on a loose rein. The very next day in session two I was sitting up on her in just under 8 minutes after doing a rapid review to assess retention - or in other words to assess IF you taught the horse in a way it could understand clearly. To get a full text description and other videos of my Start Right!! method of defusing the four anti-predator triggers associated with mounting a horse go to the following link https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.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 PROMISE to uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Working some more on facing your fears with Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse. This time using a small tarp. Note that I am NOT trying to scare her with the tarp but rather I am trying to assure her that the tarp will not eat her and thus she can tolerate it touching her and moving around and over her. You are not trying to scare the horse. You are trying to help the horse choose to control itself when it thinks something is scary. 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 . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they PROMISE to uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Rain the 4yr old Spotted Saddle Horse mare has a good bit of inexperience based fear. Horses view the world as if anything they are not familiar with could be a horse eating predator. In an environment rich with horse eating predators that is a survival advantage. In this actual environment with literally zero horse eating predators it is a serious liability. So we simultaneously work on increasing the horse's personal courage AND its trust in its master. Increasing its personal courage involves helping it face its fears and reason out that what they thought might eat them actually is not going to eat them. And going through many such experiences with the horse help it trust its master's judgment more and more when you tell it "it is not going to eat you." When we first approached these cattle Rain put on the brakes saying by body language "50 ft is plenty close enough - that way if they try to eat me I have time to turn and run." When she got brave enough to come a bit closer the cattle moved a bit and she shot backwards a couple steps. And I calmly and persistently told her she had to keep facing what she was afraid of - she had to keep looking at those cattle she mistakenly thought were going to eat her. And bit by bit she started changing her thinking - started wondering if perhaps they were safe to approach and pretty soon she was nose to nose with them like they were old pals. She had to face her fear - really take a good hard closer and closer look at it - so that she could decide it was NOT nearly as scary as she thought it was - that is how she then chose to give away that particular fear. 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 . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they PROMISE to uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

This is the very end of the initial part of today's training session with Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse. This is not where she started. This is not how we got from where she started to this point. 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. At the start I had to work to get Rain to let me curry her while she was eating even though she had watched me curry my mare Avi who is the herd boss. I then had to work using the horse training principle called "advance and retreat" to be able to catch Rain. Each time I caught her I would keep calmly saying "come to me" as I gently asked her to turn and face me where I had initially called her from - because eventually I want her to turn and face me when I call her and from that point I eventually want her to come to me when I call her. And you work to get there by Successive Approximation. 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 and defend? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Correction - Rain is NOT a TWH as I mistakenly state in the video - she is a Spotted Saddle Horse. Sorry for any confusion I caused. 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. Ponying allows you to have a younger or less experienced horse learn very directly from a well trained horse you are riding. IF the horse you plan to pony off your well trained horse already knows how to lead well then to further prepare for ponying you need to teach it that it MUST yield to the horse it is being ponied off of. My favored way of teaching this is by doing low stress herding - controlling the movement of the herd (of two) so that the horse that will be ponied understands that the horse carrying a rider is the boss. Once they get that concept down then they very naturally per their instinct yield to that horse. This isn't the greatest videography - I am literally shooting and narrating the video while riding my well trained mare, Avi, doing low stress herding of Rain just before teaching Rain to pony off Avi. So hopefully despite the less than stellar videography it will help you get more of an idea of this preparatory step towards ponying the 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 .

Who is the herd boss Rain or Avi - 19 Oct 2023 A good herd boss establishes their position by controlling herd movement and claiming their space and claiming their food, etc.. 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 .

Ashur working gate - last day - 18 Oct 2023 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. Working a hinged gate without the rider losing contact with the gate is a practical application of lateral movement, calmly moving forward, stopping, backing, Stand-Stay. Ashur is well started but a long ways from being a finished horse so I work the gate to apply the skills he has been learning. If his owner continues using and applying these skills then one day Ashur will work any gate - including a gate he has never seen until right that moment - stone cold. 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 .

Bandit the weanling Tennessee Walking Horse (TWH) being line driven by Jack Griffiths, his owner - 16 Oct 2023 Bandit's line driving training started two weeks previous to this video. On the day this video was taken Bandit was headed back home. Before Bandit headed home Jack Griffes (trainer) did a line driving demo and then handed the lines to Jack Griffiths, Bandit's owner. He did a good job line driving that weanling for the very first time - give him a hand by liking this video. 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. If you would like to see videos of Bandit being trained to line drive here are the links. Bandit the weanling TWH - second session line driving - 3 Oct 2023 https://rumble.com/v3mw4sg-bandit-the-weanling-twh-second-session-line-driving-3-oct-2023.html Bandit the weanling TWH - line driving session - 10 Oct 2023 https://rumble.com/v3odouq-bandit-the-weanling-twh-line-driving-session-10-oct-2023.html Bandit the weanling TWH - line driving - 11 Oct 2023 https://rumble.com/v3onjlg-bandit-the-weanling-twh-line-driving-11-oct-2023.html Bandit the weanling TWH - line driving - 12 Oct 2023 https://rumble.com/v3ov9od-bandit-the-weanling-twh-line-driving-12-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 .

Another line driving practice session with Bandit the weanling Tennessee Walking Horse (TWH). He is getting better at steering lightly most of the time at a walk. He is getting better at backing - yesterday I introduced turning completely around while backing and we do it again today which allowed us to continue practicing backing longer and in a more complex manner - back through the L, turn around while backing, back through the L the other way. I continued to teach "Gee" (right) and "Haw" (left) as voice commands for steering - this is important for a horse used to actually do work while driving particularly tight space work such as harrowing a small garden plot. You can see what I mean in this video of my late mare, Kate, harrowing our upper garden Spring 2010 https://rumble.com/v3mxowp-harrowing-the-upper-garden-with-real-horsepower-spring-2010.html And today for the first time while line driving I asked Bandit to go in his second gait, the Running Walk. 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 .

Another line driving practice session with Bandit the weanling Tennessee Walking Horse (TWH). He is getting better at steering lightly most of the time at a walk. He is getting better at backing - today I introduced turning completely around while backing. This allowed us to continue practicing backing longer and in a more complex manner - back through the L, turn around while backing, back through the L the other way. I continued to teach "Gee" (right) and "Haw" (left) as voice commands for steering - this is important for a horse used to actually do work while driving particularly tight space work such as harrowing a small garden plot. You can see what I mean in this video of my late mare, Kate, harrowing our upper garden Spring 2010 https://rumble.com/v3mxowp-harrowing-the-upper-garden-with-real-horsepower-spring-2010.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 .

During the last line driving session I began introducing the voice commands of "Gee" (right turn) and "Haw" (left turn) so in this session I continue using them so that he will connect the voice command with the action he is doing. In this session we are working on steering at a walk, backing up, steering while backing - after working towards standing unrestrained while feet are put in every farrier position and tapped on. 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. I apologize that a good bit of what I am saying is difficult to hear. I was wearing one of my earbuds connected to my phone thinking that automatically the earbud mic would thus get used. But the Camera app folks have now made the app so you have to go into settings and select the bluetooth mic each and every time and I learned that AFTER filming this video. Sorry. 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 .

This is an old video from Spring 2010 taken by one of my daughters while I harrowed the upper garden with my now late mare, Kate, whom I trained as a ride/drive horse. Video quality is not great but my then young daughter was doing her best and she did an excellent job considering her age and inexperience at the time - and of course phone video quality was not nearly as good in 2010 as it is now in 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 .

So what can you train a weanling to do which will help get him ready to be a saddle horse or a ride/drive horse two or three years later? One thing you can do is teach him to line drive - so that he already understands the concept of steering via direct reining. This video is completely raw unedited uncut - you see the entire short second session and it needs to be short for a weanling just learning - they do not have a long attention span. 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. Note that prior to starting to teach this weanling to line drive he has been taught several other things. His owners very thoroughly did Foal Imprinting during his first 24 hours of life per Dr. Robert Miller, DVM. He leads very well including at second gait. He has been ponied off my mare several times including on short trail rides through the woods where at times it was a narrow trail where he had to be sent behind to follow single file - on command. He knows the beginning basics of Stand-Stay. In other words - a foundation was laid before simply diving in and line driving him. This weanling is also quite calm by disposition and he absolutely trusts people and loves being around people. As always "You don't practice until you get it right - you practice until you can't get it wrong." Which means MUCH practice done in a way that keeps the horse engaged in the learning process - so that it does get to the point where your team - you and your horse working together - can't get it wrong. And yes even if you hire a trainer you the owner are going to have to develop the skill required so that the team of you and your horse can't 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 .

This video was shot while riding Ashur while walking doing the Flat Foot Walk - just hoping I had the phone camera pointed so it was catching his footfall. If you watch the video on a large enough screen watch the point where he picks up his front hoof - sometimes you can see the hoof print and then see the overstride - where his back hoof lands well in front of the front hoof print. In this video Ashur is doing the Flat Foot Walk which you can learn more about here https://www.horsesandus.com/ambling-horse-gaits/ 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 .

This video was shot while riding Ashur - just hoping I had the phone camera pointed so it was catching his footfall. He was standing still at first then walked a wee bit then went into his smooth gait and later put more energy into his smooth gait (sped up a bit but not a lot.) If you watch the video on a large enough screen watch the point where he picks up his front hoof - sometimes you can see the hoof print and then see the overstride - where his back hoof lands well in front of the front hoof print. So do you know what smooth gait he is doing? Here is some help https://www.horsesandus.com/ambling-horse-gaits/ 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 .

Ashur - listen to smooth gait rhythm - 30 Sept 2023 If (by way of analogy) you think of gait as "musical talent" then walk-trot-canter horses know how to play just 3 songs - a four beat walk - a two beat trot - and a three beat canter. They can play those 3 songs faster or slower - but just those 3 songs. Smooth gaited horses have more musical talent - they can play more songs - and some of them will improvise (mix songs together). So listen to the rhythm of the "song" Ashur is playing in a smooth four beat gait. Do you recognize the gait he is in by that rhythm? 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 .

Gemma ponying Ashur across the Creek at Waterloo - 26 Sept 2023 "You don't practice until you get it right - you practice until you can't get it wrong." On the return leg I was riding Ashur and ponying Gemma and he did not hesitate crossing the Creek. 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 .

Bandit the weanling pinto TWH eating his evening grain - 26 Sept 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 .

Bandit the weanling TWH learning to be ponied off Avi - 22 Sept 2023 Ponying horses in training helps them to learn from the more experienced horse which is ponying them. Ideally you want the pony horse to be a calm well trained good example. The pony horse needs to be rock solid neck reining and doing lateral movements especially if teaching a youngster to be ponied. You are working towards the ponied horse accepting responsibility to keep itself positioned correctly in relationship to the horse it is being ponied off of. IMO the ideal position is with the head of the horse you are ponying near your leg or barely in front of it. This translates to very similar position as if the rider was on the ground leading the horse - where it is responsible to keep the human handler between its head and shoulder. The horse doing the ponying should NOT try to boss around the horse being ponied off of it. That takes training work - especially when riding the boss mare who is ponying a horse that is not part of her herd. So at times you may have to drop the lead of the ponied horse and do some hard hip yielding turns on the pony horse to let it know that when it is working for you it may NOT boss other horses around - it has to simply let you be the boss of both horses (or all three if you are ponying two horses at once). 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 .

Four days after being taught to pick up his rider from a raised mounting platform the question is - has Ashur accepted it as his responsibility? Will he just do it - without being told? Come Over! How to teach your horse to pick up its rider from a raised mounting platform. https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.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 .

Ashur the 5yr old blue roan TWH gelding was ridden into the village of Onsted to gain experience - to see a LOT of new things - to meet new people - to get passed in both directions by a lot of cars and trucks. And to stop at the hardware store, stand tied to a sturdy light pole, while I went in to buy some Thank You cards. On the way home I shot a short "ride along on Ashur" video for you to enjoy. You can see he is very curious about stuff - we did NOT come down this street on the way into the village - so everything he is seeing is for the first time. Not upset about traffic and generally just curious about all the new sights and sounds. When we first started into the village he was a bit more hesitant - but he has come to see that all those new sights and sounds are not so scary and quite a few people loved on him by petting him - this helped increase his personal courage while also increasing his trust in his master. 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 .

Picking up your rider from a raised mounting platform is an always helpful and sometimes essential skill to teach a horse. This video is Session Two - so if you missed Session One this is the link to it https://rumble.com/v3h6ke6-pick-up-your-rider-session-one-ashur-12-sept-2023.html Session Two was done the very next morning. Ashur was brought out of the pasture - put on Stand-Stay https://griffes.tripod.com/standstay.html for currying, saddling, bridling and then completely cold (no warm up of any kind) we set up the tripod and did Session Two which you can see in full, unedited from the moment I press start to the moment I press end. What you don't see is that after I lead Ashur back to put away the tripod I then had him pick me up off the horse trailer fender. After our training ride he dropped me off on the horse trailer fender and then picked me up off a couple round bales of different heights - one quite a bit taller than the other. And he picked me up off those completely new places without getting all worried about it - he understands what I am asking him to do - and he has agreed to do it when I ask. And that makes all the difference IMO. Every horse learns at a different speed. And often as you work with a horse a LOT they get so they learn quicker for you because you have developed a working relationship of trust with them. So you can see a couple other horses being taught the same skill here https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.html so you can see horses with different learning speed getting taught the same skill. 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 .

Picking up your rider from a raised mounting platform is a handy skill to teach a horse. The concept is to get your horse to accept responsibility to move itself into position so the rider can easily get on from whatever raised mounting platform is available (picnic table, pickup bumper, trailer fender, tall stump, etc.) Ashur is a 5yr old blue roan TWH gelding. He gives no indication of previously having been taught this skill. After a basically half hour session he is doing it pretty well - another session or two and he should have it perfect. This video shows the whole process start to finish - aside from a less than one minute portion I edited out when the tripod blew over (fell over) and I went and set it back up - this spot is noted by a title card. Every horse learns at a different speed. So if you want to see the training done on other horses go to this webpage https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.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 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 .

We love playing horseback tag. Our rules are simple. You must tag the rider NOT the horse. IF the rider is a walk-trot level rider then when being pursued by them or when pursuing them you may only walk-trot. Gotta be safe for everybody - which means paying attention to your horse so it doesn't try to bite or kick another horse. IMO it is wise to wear riding helmets anytime you are riding horses - whether a beginner or a very experienced rider like myself - you will note that I am wearing my Resistol RideSafe Helmet that is built into a REAL western straw cowboy hat. We have found that playing horseback tag helps fairly new riders very rapidly gain confidence and very naturally gain a good seat. Where they had struggled with sitting the trot - often during tag they just find their seat because they forget about bouncing and get into the game and then start riding more naturally correct. We have also found that playing horseback tag helps horses and riders start working like a team better. My hunch is that it forces the rider to think ahead a bit and that helps them communicate better with the horse they are riding. Because they NEED to work as a team to either avoid being tagged or to tag someone. And a horse that is very solid doing lateral movements definitely has an advantage in keeping the rider from being tagged as well as in getting in and tagging someone. 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 .