Sidelines in Use 

"It doesn't hurt if you have a beer or two before you do it" I will be grinning about that line all day!

These type of videos show me how long training sessions go on for. I enjoy your book. I am waiting for the older horse volume. I live in New York City and I have a 22 year old paint. Thanks a lot for all of your videos.

With all due respect sir, you are NUTS!! I would never get on a colt like that! Scared me just watching! More power to ya! You are brave!

wish we could hear all the conversation,vids with talking like that is awsome.

I hiss at them to back up and smooch them forward. Nothing wrong with vocals as long as you keep it real clear consistent and simple.

I had a red dun gelding that would react EXACTLY like this! He’d fall asleep walking in circles to the left and bolt every time he’d spot me in his right eye and he could be tough to get off of too. I sold him to a friend that was much better at fixing the problem than me and he’s done amazing with him just doing a lot of off side work.

I'm a lazy trainer so well before I'm ready to mount a colt for the first time I want him accustomed to seeing humans above him. To that end I have an elevated platform beside my round pen with a couple of old lawn chairs where visitors sit & watch. That helps but the biggest thing I do is to pony them a lot. I do it so often that whenever I'm not leading a second horse people question why. I even work them in the round pen from the back of another horse. In short, I want them to know people being up high isn't a big deal & that I can control them from up there just as much as I can control them from the ground. I think it saves me a lot of work down the line & it lets me expose them to a lot of stuff they might not otherwise see for years. All with a broke horse right there telling them that none of it is a great big hairy deal. BTW it's hard to tell just watching a video but this colt strikes me as either being really insecure or having a bit of a short circuit in his wiring. How did he turn out?

Yep, couple of beers can get rid of the anxiety before you get on, no worries.

What an encouragement to know I am not the only person that does things in threes

Nice job with that colt, giving him what he needs in one session to preserve his confidence. I've got a Peppy San Badger mare that is super high self preservation. Got a pair of Dennis Moreland sidelines coming. Thanks!

I've done this on a few and then a couple times later put just the ankle cuff on and they thought about it. Couple rides later no tiff good to go

Just ordered your book. Look forward to reading it.

My daughter and I called it the humpometer

Hi Brett. I have a horse that have a very strong self preservation about strange things. like a plastic .... If I throw a sac in his hind end direction he get very scared and kick very hard and run away. Do think, in this case the side line could help??

Dam good video . Thanks for posting it.

Honest work

Doing these exact exercises with my mare ❤

Stay healthy and don’t get old

Good stuff. I didn't think he was ever going to give you spot to stop at. How long is your side line ?

What do you mean when you say a horse grabs? I've never heard that term before.

All you gotta have to break a colt is more time than the horse has.

I like your videos and style. How can I get ahold of ya for a chat?

Ever loped one with sideline on

I cluck, I chirp, I talk a fair amount. I just don't see the problem with that.

I had a Little Peppy bred gelding I got on the first time, and he never bucked bad or anything, but he just never stopped his feet for the better part of 2 hours. I thought I'd die of thirst before I finally had the opportunity to get back to earth. I'm not smart enough to know what clinician you're talking about who doesn't care for clucking to a horse. Seems like a petty thing to worry about. It is just a way to ask them to move something, somewhere. Also smooch at them to lope. Just amuses me the stuff some folks find important.

You sure he called you "sir"?

One horse is shown it Two horse resists Three horse accepts ?

Me too

I don't remember the exact quote, but Gus said something about ,there are too many good ones to ride the bad ones. I don't think this horse is very smart. If I just made you mad, do another video of him riding good and prove me wrong.

Riding a horse you need to be wearing a helmet - unless of course you think wearing a helmet makes you look weak like Trump. best Bruce Peek ps endless turns on the forehand

I'D IKE TO SEE THIS DUDE ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING THAT GIVES ME SOME FAITH IN HIM, IM STILL WATCHING VIDEOS, AND ALL IT SEEMS LIKE IS RAMBLING. I NEED SOME CREDIBILITY AND A RUN DOWN OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ALSO WHO HE'S WORKED UNDER ECT. OTHERWISE ITS JUST BORING.