Catching the hard to catch horse.

My good friend Dale said she met you at the Mn horse expo. Love her Masterson Method of body massage for horses and now I hope to follow you.

After the zoomies and dirt sniffing you were the only thing left to investigate.

Great demo! Loved the whole weekend.

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YES! I get that all the time…..the first hour I am the one that doesn’t work on the problem people brought their horses to me for, and they start pawing the ground and after I am some sort of miracle worker:)))

After an hour and fifteen minutes, the young foal eased on itself enough to start notice. Started to see the world beyond confinement of the tunnel vision.
Infinite worth in investing the time and effort to go through this process. This builds up the confident and thinking horse. This way they learn to learn for themselves.
Skipping this would leave a horse more prone to their inclination towards panic and acting impulsively.

Honestly I would watch the whole two hours of that! Would love to hear your commentary whilst working with her.

Thanks once again for sharing!

I'm bummed I didn't make it to this clinic! I drove 6 hours one way to see you last time at the MN horse expo in 2019 and was way worth it, my non horsey boyfriend was also very intrigued by Warwaick's ways! 😊

I love your teachings! Thank you for being here for us!

Can we see the whole session?

I'm happy you posted this. Sometimes this exercise really does feel like it's going no where, but the fact that you dedicated almost 2 hours to doing it just for the results you wanted prove that it's worth the long haul.

You gave him time. You let him process his environment, his ‘feelings’, the fact that no one was pressuring him. Everyone is always in a hurry and sometimes you have to slow down. “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” I love the example in the pic you saw. It’s what I always say and no one will even try - in some situations if you take a little longer to ‘re-do’ something right now it saves time and is more efficient from then on.

Very nice.

Wish I had been there for that.

This is so interesting and it seems like when one is working on farms no one is patient enough for a horse to gather their thoughts and relax. Folks want to “chase”. Thanks for the “pause” with your method. In addition, love that square block and ball metaphor you used….you get further if you take the time.

My first thought was “why is this horse at an expo for a breed demo when he’s SO obviously not ready for something like that???” LOL

Id like to see you deal with a horse on pasture that's hard to catch. An arena, no food or water, much easier. I'd like real life situations please.

Warwick
I have a 3 year old gelding and an unfortunate thing happened with my saddle coming loose which in turn made him dump me, now when I asked him for the canter again I’m assuming he anticipated what happened 30 minutes ago and dumped me again, how can I teach him to trust me again? Have I ruined him? Will he dump me every time I ask for a canter now?

Beautiful!

Lao Tzu.
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