Love following you, Matt. Always interested in the events and your horses. Wish I had this video when I was 13 years old trying to load my horse for the 4-H shows. Keep up your great work spreading kind horsemanship. Much success.
We knew this was coming😊 I love that you reference Warwick, he’s another one of my favorites! Best thing I think I heard you say was once you get a little progress like this, don’t get greedy, and stand there and him a break. It’s also great to see that you are setting aside plenty of time to work on this and you realize it could take all day. Several days, weeks even. For some people and some horses. Another saying I like is “ the slow way IS the fast way” & “ Take the time it takes so that it takes less time” Max just always seems like a sweetheart, and all the videos I’ve ever seen of him. Thanks Matt🙏🏼
Good job Matt. It’s nice to see the trainers have to deal with this issue now and then like the rest of us.I used the same technique for a horse I adopted off the track. She went through a short phase where she didn’t want to go into the round pen to be worked. She would plant her feet or pop up a little bit. She’s 16.2 hands so I certainly couldn’t muscle her into the round pen if she didn’t want to go.So, I would put her on a small trot circle swinging the lead rope and changing directions. I made her do circles back-and-forth a few times.Then she would walk in the round pen. I only had to do this on two occasions before the behavior stopped all together and it never came up again. Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard… It really works.
My horse has no problem with the trailer, but she didn't understand how to go over a bridge without getting stuck backing off. I used the concepts in the video to help teach her she needs to go ALL the way over. We're ready for our ranch trail class now :)
All my horses are different in trailer loading. One gelding took me weeks of work getting him comfortable loading. He’s a thinker, and the trailer I own is quite small. I worked on making it his idea and making sure I start my training when he’s in a good calm mind set. Sending him, and releasing pressure when moving forward. If he backed out I’d let him, but apply pressure immediately asking to load again.
Hi again MATT You wouldn't be who you are if you didn't go for it!! Scores will come as you keep stepping it up cause you're a winner and so is he!!!! Lol lol I knew you'd get back here with MAX and the trailer thing! Oh how I know how you must have felt in that parking lot!!! Especially from a horse of his caliber. Must say I like that approach if you remember to watch your feet!! A great tip! Also that braid job was beautifully done whoever did that. And now it's ok cause he's a gelding! Lol! Thx as always Matt for all you share. Catcha next one...
C C yeah that whole parking lot thing...Matt thinking to himself “Really, Max? Really?? 🤨You are going to do this right here, in the vet parking lot! You’re acting like you have never seen a trailer before. And of course, now I am going to stand here watching you finally load for someone else.🙄Thanks a lot, Max. NOT!! One less treat🥕 for you, bub, when we get home! You will go straight to your stall and stay there!!”😂
@@songbirds3712 Lol hey honey 57 thx for your fun reply. But really it's so real when that happens especially with an upper level champ who's been in a trailer how many zillion times!!!!!! I did literally feel Matt's emotion of it all! Not a nice moment but we still love em! Lol
#1 rule to all things in horseman ship is basic fondation. i have a yearling colt that in presance he will follow thru hell. this lil guy is perfect. i do alot of backing. keeps soft and teaches respect. and yes he loads well too. i start everything as babies w ground manners. so by time i saddle at age 3 well respect is there...alot is breeding!!!😂
My best friend had a young Arabian.. I remember one time we got her loaded into our straight load trailer and apparently she was never taught to back up.. We spent over 2 hours trying to get her unloaded.. We finally took out the divider and turned her around inside the trailer.
Ya Warkick is the MAN. However you have him going from a dim stall block to the bright sunlight yeah? so horses eye rods can take up to 30 minutes to adjust from bright light to dark area. So you should have the trailer door open facing the sunlight so it floods the doorway and lighting up the doorway. That is a very narrow tralier system. If you are re training him, surely to get Max to answer yes to all the questions, you ask the YES questions... Start his training with a float then a truck etc so by the end he can walk into the truck doorway which is the space for a human. break it down
@@mattmillsreining1 yes sir i am. allow me to introduce myself. im a nonpro. i rode quite a few reiners and trained working cowhorse class.......still do some. just not as much do to serv accident and head injury. but i still do as i can. i can say in my life ive worked w some awesome horses and people......learned alot from both.....love the vids keep it up....please do one on proper padding and leg care. seams lacking at shows these says.....
Okay so I have never heard of this method but last night my ottb wouldn’t load for a show so he got to stay home while I took the other horse. Anyways I watched this video earlier and decided to try this with him. It WORKED!! And I really love how it’s not an aggressive method!
Mane's and Tail's please let us know we need a video of mane's and tails and your routine. And if you have horse's that might not have had a great mane and tail and what you did to make it beautiful.
I took my barrel horse to a jack pot and came off the trailer bad and it really got him scared. So a week later another jack pot was going on and he wouldn’t load up. He reared and that is something he doesn’t do. And he doesn’t like to be pressured or doesn’t like to be forced. So I think I’ll use this method because it seems it’ll take time but at least I’m getting this type of training from a professional trainer
@@mattmillsreining1 Deb and Pat in the Tehachapi area are good. Old time, real cowboy, trains the best horses to spade bit. Ropes, brands, starts in bosal or snaffle, does things right.:)
Hmmm in my experience with breaking horses a Lip Chain or even a Lip Rope would be respected. Different Breeds react different. My Best horse was Blind in his left eye and was murderous in and out not just for trailers Slant or straight but box stalls too. He looks Good Post Surgery.
@@mattmillsreining1 when I was younger I worked at a thoroughbred Farm that thank God is no longer in business but because I have Standardbred background I always got the oddballs the Arabians that raced even the little quarter horses and it was a policy that even on a hot Walker we had to use a lip rope I hated it I don't like to hurt an animal at all. I really don't like giving them four Acepromazine either just to walk in a hot ring. I like what you do Matt you do work with the horse instead of against which is most important. Their body language will tell you just like when their whole body tightens up when a horse fly lands. Nothing worked for Mismatch, it all stemed from some idiot who wasn't patient mismatch was just two as in January he was hit on his sighted side to try to make him come out of the stall faster to hook up with company which means you go out on the track with more than one horse that was a nightmare! because he ended up scared for life and he ran into a big Abercrombie stud Colt from Canada who is in the cross ties and broke the Abercrombie Colts halter. The only thing that worked was a slant load and you better have a tight grip on his left side because he would also run out and hop over the ramp he was blind on his left side he was very dangerous and nearly killed at least two people not on purpose but just because he couldn't see and he was scared.
on a completely different and left field note.... these quarter horses aren't very big/tall.. you're a pretty big guy.... i would usually always apply a ratio- (hands to height) for ridabiltiy...yet Max seems so short when i size you up next to him. Even as a chick i would look at a horse by where my legs are at on him/her when on them as so whether they are too small or too tall for me to ride. I am beginning to think Quarter horse/western style riding might be not just a bit different but a LOT different than English. Don't get me wrong, I am OVER OTTB and English style riding and tack... U.S. style seem so much more comfortable, relaxed etc if on the correct horse.
