Educating yearlings in Australia 

No doubt they are An endless supply of funding

They really aren't patient because at 2 years old they make them run regardless of the fact that they haven't finished growing.

your right in that their bodies aren't fully prepared for high stress which is why I believe 2 year olds shouldn't start racing until late that year early 3 but breaking in a proper manner like you see in this video is not going to cause harm, it will give the horses a chance to learn while their still young so it won't be a shock to them and before they reach the age where such training can be much less efficient when their in that terrible 2's mental stage. ideally it could be done later but changes like that are coming with the times, what the people seen in this video are doing is not wrong though not 110% ideal to some vets that have no understanding of the industry and very little experience with the breed. Just because peta and some of their "experts" believe all domesticated species should be released into the wild doesn't mean it would be in the best interests of the species.

You are right

But the triple crown horse are all 3 years

Either the racetrack or the slaughterhouse

@@ahorsenamedcelty9505 horses arent allowed to go to slaughter and godolphin is extremely good with this - if you buy a retired off the tracker from them they must stay in the system, and you must apply to sell them on.

@@ciara2837 tell that to the thousands of thoroughbreds that end up in the slaughter house each year. It happens in every country that has horse racing. The jockey club doesn't check up on the ex racers. I have an ex racehorse who was responsibly retired from the track and her race owner checks up on her every couple of months but it's not required by the jockey club. My friend bought her ex racehorse from a kill pen, she had a body score of 2. Every day ex racehorses are slaughtered and the jockey club does nothing.

@@ahorsenamedcelty9505 I don't know where you are from but in Australia heaps of things are being done to prevent this. Racing Victoria, for example will assist owners if they do not have the means to humanely put down an OTTB if required, meaning they do not have to go to slaughter. Like I said, Godolphin keeps very strict records of where all of there OTTBs are, so you cannot just sell them to kill pens, and other OTT programs do checks on them and research into potential buyers. Also remember to hold abattoir workers responsible, there is no need for them to treat animals so horribly, absolutely no one wants them to go that way.

​@@ciara2837Australia is the worst country in terms of the treatment given to horses, for example Dinamic Tank was sold to a slaughter house where he was killed... Victoria, Australia is the only place in the world where jump racing is maintained , where they are tortured and where many horses die because of it.

they said filly, it's actually Emanate

It takes 3 weeks to break a respectful yearling but it certainly does take over that to break a horse at 2 years who hasn't been taught any respect whatsoever.

Agree with you...1 year old is so wrong and I'm sure they know that...once they start full speed at such a young age they break down...broken legs etc....soo cruel..I didn't start breaking my Arabian Stallion until he was nearly 3....it's all down to Money here....................

@@paulrobertson7650 The yearlings need to be started early, all these horses are doing are straight galloping with weight on, something horses do naturally. They aren't jumping, twisting or anything too much. If they aren't started early, it can cause more damage

@@olympiasunray1444 that's Bullshit. Horses skin is thinner than our skin and the nerves are put higher making them very sensitive. Like come on they feel it when a fly lands on them. And it will cause more damage if started early. The spine is undeveloped and not strong enough for a human to sit on. You seriously need to get your facts straight. But I can't be surprised your uneducated when you get all your info from a horse game

Unkown who doesn’t feel when a fly lands on you?

haeleypapa exactly. I grew up in a horse race family. It’s abuse. I hate that my family is also involved.

There are workout regimens designed to prevent things like bucked shins and other issues. Of course this doesn't stop all injuries, but it's something.

They would go faster running in the paddock. They only have a rider on their back for about 3 weeks total. If they didn't have this early phase of education and the other short period of education they would be more susceptible to lower leg injuries including fractures, OCD's, ligament and tendon injuries. If you care to look into it a bit more, look up bone remodelling in horses. it happens every 6 weeks and their bone remodels to strengthen for the type of work they do.

look up wolff’s law, that pretty much explains how their bodies handle it

A yearling or even a two or three year old horse STILL is TOO YOUNG for this kind of 'job'. Horses mature around the age of 6 or 7... before that their bones aren't fully grown and dense enough. The education should start around the age of two with some horsemanship and desensitization, at the three with serious groundwork and MAYBE around the age of four light ridden work and gradually built on that.

@@Nightgrauen if a horse is beginning to be ridden at 4 it's way too much of slow work and that horse will lunge at you and be the most disrespectful thing. For disciplines like showjumping they're typically ridden at 3, also, racehorses are not worked hard. They'll train for about 4 hours per week and take a 2 week break, do it all over again. These horses do not gallop at all for typical training session. They only do a quickened canter as well as trot sets. With scientific studies horses started at 3 or 4 are more likely to get injured on the track than horses started at 2.

@@rusty2998 Sorry, that is utter bullshit. I work with a lot of horses, and never once did a horse lunge at me because it was too old to be ridden! Either a horse is trained to be respectful (from foal-days on) or not. My horse is 4 , gets daily lessons in ground manners, horsemanship, lunging , etc. Horse racing is animal abuse, wether they are two years old, three years or four. There are "scientfic studies" (to quote you) that found proof that horse racing for a horse is equal to fleeing from a predator in the wild. That is the only time a horse would go a this kind of speed (within a herd):. What is horse racing? Exactly... a herd of of horses racing at full speed in one direction - absolut stress/adrenaline... time after time after time. No wonder 90% or race horses have ulcers. Do your scientific studies also show the horses 5 or 8 years from now? Having arthritic joints, kissing spines,...? I would bet money on the fact that race horses have a significantly larger percentage of these problems than horses of similar ages that have been under saddle later and have been worked correctly.

@@Nightgrauen The yearlings need to be started early, all these horses are doing are straight galloping with weight on, something horses do naturally. They aren't jumping, twisting or anything too much. If they aren't started early, it can cause more damage.

@@olympiasunray1444 That is absolute nonsense. There are so many clinical studies that proof in which order a horses's body develops. The only bone fused in a horses body at the age of 1 year is the scapula, many bones mature and fuse at the age of around 3, the vertrebrea fuses at the age of 5 or 6!!!! You know, the part you ARE SITTING ON!!! Here is a link www.equinestudies.org/ranger_2008/ranger_piece_2008_pdf1.pdf I can find a lot more of those studies for you if you like. I dare you to find me studies to proof otherwise. That is the equivalent of putting a 20kg backpag on child's back (6 years). You wouldn't do that! But you put 50 or 60 kg human on a "child-"horse. For the sake of money, fame or other reasons that don't matter to a horse or its health, you ignore all the facts and studies that proof that a horse at the age of 1, 2 or even 3 isn't old enough to be ridden. Every thinking and feeling human being SHOULD KNOW that THIS ISN'T RIGHT. I heard all those arguments about how race horses are bred to mature earlier. That is bullshit. One can't change thousands of years of genetics in 100 years. My horse is 4, a coldblood, wights 800 kg and I wouldn't put my 70kg on his back right now. I started him in groundwork/manners and just now in-hand work so that the he can develop the right muscles and knows all the aids to bear my weight around the age of 5. And he probably will be healthy at the age of 20, because he raised properly, lived in a heard all his life, ate hay instead of all the supplements and medicaments for stress induced ulcers, had no bone fissures and only mild arthritis instead of being crippled by it, no swayback by being ridden when the spine wasn't fused yet. Etc..... In the end horse racing wasn't made for the horse, it was created by the human to have fun, fame, earn money.... no horse would ever choose this. It is animal cruelty.

max Salcido I'm a track rider, it's so much fun! (I exercise the race horses)

Horse breeds grow in different paces, the TB can be fully grown at the age of 2-4 and they are worked extremely light and being more well cared for than most horses. Other horses like drafts aren't fully grown until the age of 5-6 and get worked from the ground most of the early years to build muscle before being excercisen mounted

Eli , then how come so many young horses never make it to the race tracks

@@lucasa1849 The same reason so many young kids don't make it as top athletes, rock stars or win the Nobel Prize for literature or physics - they don't have the talent. Or the desire, in some cases. For every Bruce Springsteen or Freddie Mercury there are a 100,000 that never make it out of gigs in the local bars. They just don't have it to make it to the big time. Or high school quarterbacks that aren't Joe Montana, Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. It is just not going to happen. Same with TBs. They aren't fast enough, don't have the fire in the belly, aren't made for it mentally, or were bred by someone who isn't into racing and wants a TB for some other purpose. So they never make it to the track. And that is most of them.

DoubleDogDare54 . Thats understandable but not what I meant. By “not making it to the race tracks” I meant dying, breaking legs, or other issues that get them sent to slaughter.

DoubleDogDare54 Couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!

Oh yea u forget to mention the part where the racing industry especially at godolphin treat the horses like royalty, with 5 star care with constant monitoring and maintenance take a look at how much money gets spent on vet bills farrier bills feed whatever, the racing industry if done correctly treats horses better than any horse industry, I don’t see any distressed horses in this video and I don’t see any distressed horses in this video or at my work actually look with your eyes

11:48 And that person looks fat.

No flexion is commonly used to describe something a horse is doing. The guy used it perfectly correct

Flexion is very much an english word.it means a bending movement around a joint in a limb ( as in the knee or elbow) that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint - compare extension - a forward raising of the arm or leg by a movement at the shoulder or hip joint. Pat Parelli has a working vocab.

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All but my last horse and one of my son’s horses have been thoroughbreds off the track. They don’t all go to the knackers.

Slaughter is illegal, most tb's wouldn't be out of racing in the slaughter house.

@@olympiasunray1444 Not here in Australia. Here it is legal sadly.

Heidi Beckedorf Well the owners make more money to sell the horse then send it to slaughter.

Locally near me i cant touch a tb for less than 2000, even failed or non/never raced horses.

A lot, if they live that long.

disagreed.

They literally live in the lap of luxury. Feel bad for backyard horses with novice owners.

It’s illegal to sell racehorses to slaughter.

Its like sending children to primary school. They don't go fast at all and they only do 3 weeks with a rider on their back. Then they go straight back to the paddock for a holiday. I can understand you not liking the industry, but its not cruel to educate them at this age. No more than sending a 5 year old to school

These yearlings are owned by Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum. One of the wealthiest men in the world. If you think with him his horses are "all about the money" they earn, you are friggin' nuts.

Starting later would cause worse breakdowns, Wolff's law helps support it. Let me give you two examples of how the owners care for the horses, and the horses love it: - 2019 Kentucky Derby, Omaha Beach was an excitable favourite, possibly a triple crown winner. Unfortunately a few days before the large race, he got a small issue, he was immediately withdrawn. Omaha beach had such a big chance to win such a big race but the owners care so much, he was withdrawn for an issue without much questioning - 2019 Preakness, BodeExpress, the colt suffered a bad beginning and the jockey was unseated, he continued on with ears pricked and doing what he loves. A rider attempted to catch him in the race, but he purposefully avoided it, swerving into a spot where he couldn't be taken. He ran a clean race too and even attempted a second lap. He showed signs of the enjoyment of being a racehorse. All racehorses are treated CRAZY good. Just look at Godolphin's videos. These people aren't gonna throw away 50k+ horses. Thoroughbreds aren't the majority of the horses who end up in slaughter, each jockey club has a STRICT set of rules and they are improving MORE and MORE. Those rules include: (may vary for each jockey club) - Horses may only be whipped 7 times - Horses may not be sent to slaughter - Drugging is a BIG nono - All horses need vet checks before racing and after, some places may need TWO vet checks, and this does include Drug Testing.

Then why are you watching these videos about this industry. If you don’t like it don’t watch it. It’s not that complicated

That is right. When big money is involved, horses suffer.

tell me you know nothing about racing without telling me.