His First Trail Ride and We're Doing It ALONE! 

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I rode my 1st horse alone on the trails for years. It's a very special time together. We rode for 31 years. I don't ride now at 76 years but still have two horses I pamper and dream of riding again. I enjoy all your video's they inspire me go get up and out with my horses. Thank you for being a great trainer and for the inspiration.

The cameraman who was in front of you was probably a good support for the horse.

I had a horse that absolutely loved new trails. He and I used to ride solo most of the time, sometimes for hours at a time, always trying to find new paths to explore. There is nothing better than a good horse and a beautiful day ... medicine for the soul.

I love what you said about taming a horse is helping them ignore their prey animal instincts in order for them to be a good partner for us AND that we as humans have to put away our predatory instincts to be a good partner for the horse. I’ve always recognized the first part of that statement, but it gave me an “a-ha” moment to recognize how much we have to leave behind our instincts to meet them in the middle. Thank you! Also, I love the “touch game”. I do that with everything new my horse encounters. Hey horse, go check this out and then I’ll lead you away or remove the scary thing when you relax. Now my horses will calmly engage with new things and go “eh, no biggie” and walk on.

Ryan, you are such an empathetic and sensible rider and comment all the single steps. This is very very valuable. Thanks

I can ride my 4 year old mustang mare solo on trails. I am so proud of her❤. But I did a lot of work ahead of time. Trust towards me Going for lead walks Graze away from the barn And these dangerous hikers, bikers, runners, dogs. 😂 We just stood for weeks at junctions and waited for folks to come. Great them and eventually she was ok with everything. On our very first solo ride we encountered a pack of 5 bikers. She was as concerned but moved on just fine. Our solo rides are now 1 hr long and she just loves them. Walks off with me like, let’s explore the world. I just love her. ❤

Funny thing is, you weren't alone on the trail ride. There was a human being on the ground holding a camera. Here in the Netherlands the most common given advice to train a young horse to go on a 'ride outside' (it's not always trail rides here, sometimes it's just the grass verge of a busy road) is either ask someone on another experienced horse to ride with you or - second best - ask a friend to go along on a bicycle or on foot. The human being on foot who's there *is* company for a horse. That said, I mostly ride alone, all of my horses. No warm up either, just load them in the trailer, unload somewhere in the 'woods' (as far as present in this country), saddle up after unloading, mount and start the ride. I invite friends to ride one of my more experienced horses a couple of times if I need a young one to get used to a trail ride. After one of two rides I take them out alone with no problems. I'm 64, riding since I was 9, with two youngsters to keep me riding until I'm 80. At least.

I've always ridden my horses alone, it's lovely and peaceful and a great bonding time.

Just got back from the first ride out on my young mule where I didn't decide to hop off and hike with him. We had fun!! He had a lil spook from a culvert that turned into a deer but he recovered in an instant. The work pays off!!! I love it. Nice wife horse btw!!😊

i think he really enjoyed learning something new. after the water incident, he was all yours.

This was by far my favorite video u have shared. I loved how calm u stayed when there were times the horse needed some redirection. You never made a big deal out of anything. I love to take my 2 horses trail riding and I learned so much! Thank you for doing this with a green horse. Great teaching opportunities!

I rode my first horse everywhere by himself and with other horses. He was great either way. He was a lovely boy who I bought when he was 6 months of age. We had years together. I’m 74 now, I don’t ride anymore because of a neck injury so I watch your videos for my horse fix! I love your training technique, I used those same techniques back in the day. They worked then, they work now! Patience with young horses is always the best. Love the looks of that horse! Good job!

The water crossing was the best part for real time training with hiccups. Didn't ruin a thing!

Your patience is amazing! Thanks.

Great tutorial! Delite absolutely would not put a foot in that water. I can't blame him there were many frogs eyes looking up at him when we tried it. I knew enough not to try to force him to go through so we just stood there and looked at it for a REAL long time. 😁

Excellent video. Thank you for showing how to work through a challenging situation. You are the only instructor that has been able to give practical information on how to deal with a challenging situations out on the trail! Thank you!!!

What a stunning horse! Your life is a lucky gal.

Very useful, pertinent and timely information. I mainly ride alone so I will be adopting your approach! 👍

My horse was pretty used to almost everything - I got him from a teenager in Canada who would ride him everywhere, go in shows at the local fairs, took him to clinics etc. However, once a year or so, he would flat out refuse to (for instance) go over a bridge that was new -or even occasionally one that he had been over before. I discovered that he was totally OK with backing over it and then would be willing to go forward over it. I found it to be something I could count on so was able to ride by myself without worrying he would get "stuck". It also worked on his first time thru a really big puddle, thru a tunnel and on a bridge that was over a 2 lane hwy. The only thing I could think was that when he faced backward, he was familiar with what he saw AND that he trusted me.

Great video =- thanks Ryan.

This is an incredibly useful video. Teaching me SO much how to manage my green introverted new boy on trail! Love your mentoring wrt patience, persistence & kindness. Thank you for sharing so much with us!!! So appreciated.

Done solo trail training rides with my younger Walker boy, as well. 😊 He needs the miles and the exposure!! I like going out by myself because it doesn't impede on others' time in the event I have to work him through a spook or scary stretch.

That was very impressive. Love that horse! ❤❤❤

Great video. I love taking my young horses out on solo trail rides. I took her out for her first trail ride on her 7th ride total and she was amazing. Really building her confidence and our connection through these rides. She has about 12 now and riding like a nice broke trail horse.

lovely place. really enjoyed watching how you approach the water.

This was such great instruction...really liked the repetitions prior to the trail and then the practical application within the trail.

The camera person is getting in their steps today!

You are so patient.

Really great video. Full of knowladge. Im getting ready to go on my first trail ride with my new 4/5 year old. But with a friend. Wouldnt dare go alone for the first 20 times at least. Ive a very long way to go to gain your experience but will always strive to learn as much as possible both for myself & my horses. Thanks Ryan

That was SO useful! Really practical stuff! Thank you.

A few years back I took a fairly expensive clinic with my new horse. The clinician made fun of me when the three day clinic was finished because I did not feel confident to go on a short trail ride with the other riders. Was so glad I didn't because some riders got hurt because their horses were green. It is so nice that you do groundwork with your horse before riding. I like to do ground work with my horse to check where her brain is. We have had many, many wonderful rides together with groups and out alone. Happy Trails Ryan!

Thanks for another great video!

Great first experience for him

Good boy! I appreciated the water crossing part a lot. Aries and I still have a conversation about the water 😂

Your wife's horse is my color! Love a bay roan!

Excellent video Ryan.

This is a great video. Lots of good “pearls” of wisdom…actually, in all of your videos. Thank you for sharing!

Loved how you got him to go through the water. The horses I ride are very good and I mainly trail ride, but although they're not worried about water they sometimes just want to skirt around it. I can get them to go straight through just by directing them but this is good to know if they do stop at something. Loved how you went backwards to get steps forward.

Great video! It was awesome getting to hear your thoughts and actions as the ride went on. Can we give a big applause to the camera person? I don't know how they managed that. I would have fallen down for sure!!!😂

Love this video!! I just adopted an OTTB, and I am getting ready to ride him this weekend on the trail for the first time. I’ve had him with my farrier/trainer, and he is doing great!! Once we do a local, day trail ride, I am taking him on a weekend ride two weeks after that. Hoping my boy does as good as yours did!!

Thank you for this, this is EXACTLY what I’m struggling with, with my three year old. Solid in the arena, super anxious outside of the arena.

Oh I love you Ryan. Wish you were in Australia. I'm joining your page.🙏❤️

I find horses get more excited & worked up with other horses. They get nervous and spooky when on their own but they don't use other horses as excuse and its better for them to brave them out to go out on their own.

My horse is no issue by himself , but he can get anxious in a group and tends to ride the butt of the horse in front of him. We are working on it .

Thanks Ryan! I always learn so much from your videos 👌❤

Beautiful horse . Greetings from Germany.

Great training video, thank you Ryan. I ride out through woods alone a lot and almost always need to work through something as no path is ever the same two days running, even if only dogs baking in the distance. Really like the "meet in the middle" demonstration of your way of working. I do appreciate that and work to doing that alway. 😊👍

I love your videos and I just gotta say, Lambo is a real stunner!! 😍

Top video to watch , I learnt a lot here I have my two youngsters to take out ( it’s ideal to ride them out alone ) I am a bit apprehensive as I’ve had spinal fusion 6 years ago & now recovering from a hip replacement surgery 6 months ago Had done many a ride by myself with my last horse , he also loved company of others as well we rode in a group of 4- 7 other riders on a Thursday ,then we’d ride alone two to three times a week THANK YOU for sharing all your help And what a beautiful horse your wife has 😊

This is such a cool facility! I would love to bring my girl somewhere like this for trail training!

Awesome training method I honestly could see how relaxed you need to be and also sensitive to the horse while he is learning about his environment. Thank You wish I had a horse to work with again , but it can be challenging depending on how nervous your horse is. Working at the Morgan horse ranch I always rode in the arena first to But I see how you have to make things more interesting for the horse and yourself. That makes so much sense. Wish back the I knew more of what I was doing. Thanks Again. RyanRose

Had a paint horse in our equine therapy program that always wanted to roll in deeper water puddles.

I love roans. Blue roans have my heart though

Thanks again for sharing! 💯

What a nice horse Lambo is . Gonna be a true blue or even solid gold mount in the future. Great video!

This is the video I needed! Thank you so much! So informative and I'm loving every minute of it!

Great video! I learn alot! Thank you

Great video, love your tips! The water crossing part looks so familiar, you did it quicker than I usually do. Fortunately some horses could care less about water. thanks!

Loved this thanks a lot❤

great video, I do think the human videoing and kind of leading, does helb too when a horse is alone.It doeswith mine, even goes faster if my hubby cycles faster. Just to mention really alone can be more challenging

Impressive! 🙂

Fantastic trail training ride! thank you!

How old is Lambo? His mini spook at the bench was so cute. What a good boy!

Such a handsome boy

That was a good one small but important things to note 😊

Perfect. I feel for your camera man. I was wondering how you were going to do a solo trail ride without a camera. 🎥

I doubt that I’ll ever be a horse owner ( so I haven’t joined your patron page) but I love to ride and take lessons wherever I can. Your videos and Emily’s are inspiring and helpful! Quick question, why wouldn’t one set up walking on a lead through water before ever attempting to ride through it? You do that over minor obstacles.

I had to chuckle a bit about touching the logs. I had one of mine do that, and a turkey exploded out of it. Forever after that horse did not trust logs!! We managed, but I felt like he trusted me and got a nose full of turkey. Ugh.

I often had to do my first rides on horses I was starting alone; needs must. By taking my dogs with me, (since the young horses were used to them being around), they would follow the dogs if they came to a spot they were unsure of. If we stopped, I would whistle the dogs and send them up the path ahead and the young horse would follow as soon as I asked. Perhaps your camera man served a similar purpose to your mount? I generally rode mine out into the hills behind the house on about the 4th or 5th ride they ever had. We then built up from there to longer and longer rides. Worked for my situation. When eventing, I found some horses warm up better in canter and some are better in trot, especially for calming them prior to the dressage phase. Cantering followed by walk shoulder in would calm one horse (not the other way round), whilst others needed lots of simple walk or halt/trot transitions to achieve the same concentration since canter work would hype them up. I like how you explained the backing at the water. I might look to see if you have explained the touching with the nose in even more detail in another video. Thanks.

As a kid on a ranch I loved riding out alone. It was how I got away from my brothers. 😏 As a teen and now an adult my dogs go with us, but no other humans and horses. Advantage of living in a rural area.

My horse Loves the water❤❤ Florida

I almost always ride by myself and have "broke" all my own horses... I've never purchased a trained horse. The couple foals I've had I started right away with leading them away from mom, and then back again, so they get used to leaving other horses and trusting me when we go places. I've never really had issues with taking a horse out on a trail by itself, but I have had horses that freak out when they are left at home by themselves (even if that same horse can go on the trail alone).

Thanks a lot Ryan for this video. It will help me a lot when I take my horse out for the first trail ride. Why is it that Lambo doesn't want to graze all the time? This is indeed my biggest problem when we are out. It can realy ruin your whole strategy. Maybe you can do a video about this topic?

Very nice! Thanks!!

ya great videigrapher love the way this is being filmed, i wish i had a videographer for my videos

That neck! So pretty!

Hi Ryan I love this training video ( i love all your videos) but this one just re confirms the importance of how to handle a horse that has moments, mine does this a lot and i handle it same as you. Because of your training method and other trainers I love to watch I do this with mine it helps so much , but people don't understand this is how you need to handle the younger greener horses . my horse is so powerful sometimes i can only cantor a few strides then we have to take it back to curves and walk, trot. I am loving training her but i do miss long cantors and gallops on my old trusty mare , god rest her, but this new young mare is the love of my life and will be great some day, hopefully sooner than later. thanks for all the wonderful content you put out it really has helped me so much with training my lovely wild mare.

camera work 👍

Excellente

Beautiful place to trail train. I would like to see more distractions like barking dogs running and jumping along fences; motorcycles, quads and other off road stuff coming toward you and behind you. That is my world.

I see you’ve got a nightlatch on that saddle. Smart.

He keeps it so I can understand what he's asking in small steps. I've learned to pay attention to horse signs. Thanks and keep up the good work.

I never ever turn a horse in circles when they refuse to go forward. I have seen so many people spun off their horses when they learn the coping skill of turning in circles when they don't want to go forward!!!!!!!!

He's beautiful ❤

did you see Ariel at Free Spirit Equestrian? a twin!

I saw the bridle hanging on the saddle early on in the video. What kind of snaffle was that?

"Hey is there anyone here like me?" 4:39 time stamp( me translating what Lambo the horse just said) hahaha

Does your patreon page have a basics ground work series?

John Wayne never had to go through this performance. His horses didn’t need a safe place. This generation of horses is so pampered. How did those horse based movies ever get made?

Lamborghini is beautiful

I live close by. Does this place allow outsiders to pay and use their arena and trails? Thanks for the very helpful video!

I really do not understand why people who ride horses who are clearly too big for these horses. A lot of cons to doing so. My dad certainly had a situation where the horses' tail was active (nothing to do with flies) and eventually-plus with him being off balance and such was kicking and almost trying to rear.

A W E S O M E

Is that your go to bit for trail riding? I use a snaffle, but on a fairly long shank

Was that cross-firing at 10:44 in the video?

Did you haul your horse with the saddle on?

Do you have any suggestions on a good bit to use for trail riding?

How do you prepare a horse for this?

My horse is buddy sour and Im not confident enough to take him out alone.