This restart is going to be tough 

I've bought and watched and followed a lot of trainers. YOU, sir, with your candid, real time videos are the most helpful that I've ever seen.

You are a special person to have the patience with her like you do. No doubt you are the one who can turn her into a wonderful horse. I hope your wife is still improving.

Koda will work out with your skill. Not thinking a horse you can just stable and pleasure ride without losing all your efforts. She needs a job to engage. Look forward to the updates. Be safe and hope your wife is improving every day.🌼

I'm a new horse owner, and 2 of my horses are green. No training, nothing. Watching your videos gives me Hope that I'll be okay. ❤

I really love the patience you show with this horse. You are on the right path for sure.

I love love that your calm with her even when she spooked.

I have to differ on one point, if she had been well broke sitting idle for months or years shouldn't make any difference. A horse that has to be worked regularly to be usable isn't really trained. also the stilted way she moves makes me wonder what other issue there might be

You are so patient! Great lessons to learn from you!

This is a really pretty horse. I don’t have the pleasure of having a horse anymore & I sure do miss having one. Wish I would have had this instruction and expertise when I had my horse! Way back in 1974/75

Really appreciate you showing us working with a truly difficult horse, and looking forward to your progress.

Thank you for making this video. knowing a horses movements learning their body language is very important with horses and any animal. You are very good at what you do sir.

That is exactly what my 23 yrs. old TW gelding does at the mounting block. Keeps moving his butt over when I try to get my foot in the stirrup. He KNOWS how to stand at the block! So I have to get down, make him lunge around me, change directions for a couple minutes, line him up again and sometimes he's good and other times I have to do this 3 times! I have had him almost 10 yrs. and he still does this! Once in a while, he'll stand perfect and when I mount up, I always make him stand for about 5 mins. before walking off. I don't lose my temper, but it sure is frustrating!!

Just bought boat bumpers cause of your training. I’ve started using it on my youngest to get him prepared to be under saddle. Very useful!

Love your videos Tim. I hope your wife is improving. I set a prayer for her. The rider has to insist that the horse do what is expected in order to establish leadership & for the horse to feel safe. Whatever it takes to establish leadership.

I have worked with one just like this had so much work thrown at him . PSSM all over it . Stay safe , hope she doesn’t hurt someone .

So patient well done

Mare with some sas... really like her quality. A thinker and trier. Great the owners have asked for pro to restart. Or the problems will escalate. And fact you have respect for work previously done. Love the matter of fact way you go about. You work with where the horse at not a set "today must do this and achieve" THANK YOU

Wow she is a tough one ! She is not afraid of some confrontation (holding her ground despite the whip).

Good video. Thank you for showing viewers how you handle a problem like this, starting from really bad to so much improved, just within minutes.

Thabk you for explaining that changing gaits and disengaging the hindquarters can set the horse up for failure if it hasnt developed the muscle or skill. I had tried to explain that so many time but it was never as clear as yours

I agree. Not a free mover. Unnaturally stiff.

Thank you for all your videos ! They have helped me learn tot be a better horsewoman ! I appreciate your patience with the horses because few people realize how important that is in doing it right.

I love the boat bumpers stimulating legs very cool idea

Excellent approach and skills. Thank you ❤

Princess obviously enjoyed being a pasture ornament and never missed a meal judging by the size of her. Once they get a break like that they object to being told what to do and when to do it.

Enjoyed watching this so much brings back memories from my youth thank you.

I appreciate that you cinch up the girth in stages which I am sure the animal appreciates, as well.

Good and sympathetic training.

Fighting with a horse over a spoiled or misunderstood action does more damage. You cannot win. They remember.....Very nice mare that has acquired some bad habits! She just plants her feet......at the mounting block she decided she does not want to be ridden! She is definitely putting herself in charge! She is gonna be nice after she learns that is not acceptable! Horses learn bad behavior soooo quickly.....and a lot of work to get them to think differently! She is a challenge!

I know you say beauty can be a detriment but whooo is she sweet! She's worth all the time in the world to get her right. NICE JOB!

Wow! Great work Watching with great interest! Looks like she needed a kind but firm attitude adjustment.

What an amazing arena… lovely mare

Love your patience

Fascinating training and much patience.

Can't wait to see her progress. I hope she didn't injure herself out in pasture. She's way too unfocused for me. Odd for such a well broke horse.

Cool mare! You'll get her right in no time!

I sure wish I could afford to pay someone to come work with my horses to get them back into riding shape! I’ve got one mare in particular that made me nervous charging at me with her crazy blue eye and I can’t quite shake that anxiety😢

No way to force a horse to do anything. Working her down until she decides that it's best to stand quietly, it's best to just go past scary objects, etc..appears indicated here. She's clearly been treating her current owner like a substitute teacher-no respect, just standing there ignoring him. Owners are likely not experienced enough, they inadvertently let her get away with things, she scared them by behaving in ways that felt unsafe to them, and they turned her out. She has many sweaty miles ahead of her before this is straightened out. Hats off to you, sir, for agreeing to tackle this big, bossy, spoiled mare. She'll need a new owner who won't undo all that you'll have to do to get her straight. She's dangerous at this point.

I wonder if she went back to her first trainer she would say - oh yea I remember because she remembered the trainer. Fabulous to watch you even though I don’t ride or own horses

She’s a gorgeous horse🤩

That is a clever idea with the boat bumpers.

Damn good lookin horse! She’s in good hands with Tim tho.

Pause the video at 29:06 and tell me that the white down her face doesn't look like a white saber tooth tiger or just a white female lion or cat even , the whole body an tail wrapped around the nose so cool !

I love how the other horses stand outside the arena to watch! The observers.

The background in that barn is beautiful. Looks like a curtain.

Tim, is this mare muscle bound? She doesn’t look like she’s over weight but she is looking like a horse that has been physically prepared for the halter class. I know some of the halter bred horses can be naturally over muscled so is that the case? If she is being prepared for halter classes then how are they putting the muscle on if she can’t be ridden or lunged?

Is it because she is beefy and not moved much in pasture she looks stiff in her back legs?

That is a nice qh. Great job, most trainers use other methods, that's excellent training.,better than most.

I am always terrified to get on a horse I don't know so kudos to you.

Some say that to start a horse; the lunging should be first performed without the saddle. Once the horse is paying attention to the trainer; it is then to add the blanket; lunge, then add the saddle. Therefore I have a question. Why did you make the decision to place the saddle on the horse first, then perform the lunges? Does either method make any difference (one better than the other or training time, etc.) in the horse’s performance that a person is attempting to a a achieve?

Havent read all the comments, whats going on with her hind end?

I can't believe you didn't do more groundwork and desensitization before attempting to mount the horse. Clearly an accident waiting to happen! Set her up to do the right thing and reward her for doing it rather than letting her do the wrong thing and punishing her. Good luck; stay safe!

I’m an owner who created a horse just like this. Looking back it was the little things that I either didn’t notice or let slide. Eventually I had horse that would kick out, buck, and spin the second I sat in the saddle. Her whole body tensed up such that I felt as though it was sitting on a ticking time bomb. On the lunge, like this mare, she was obstinate when asked to change reins. Defiant is the word that comes to mind. When I’d insist, she’d turn around and barrel kick. It was awful. Deep down, as terrifying as it was, I knew that since I was the one who messed it up, I had to be the one to fix it. I started with ground work (without the bumpers (love this idea)) similar to this, among other exercises I had in my tool box but never had any real (life threatening!) reason to use. I eventually moved on to getting on her back with a helper from the ground. The first few times felt slightly better than it had been in the past. Her biggest threats came from her not wanting me to touch her with my legs. Keeping the leg on regardless of her behavior (really scary at times ) and releasing when she walked forward was key. I had a helper on the ground with a lung whip to assist when she really planted her feet. Fortunately all of this is behind me now. What I see in this mare in the video is a really sweet horse. I’m looking forward to watching how she comes along. I have a feeling there’s going to be a happy ending!

Anyone else think she takes small hind quarter steps?

Just wondering.. has anyone checked to see if she is sound and doesn’t have any health issues? She seems to be short stepping in the back like her stifles could be bothering her ? Her back ?

Strange reaction, is that fight or freeze the standing still?

WOW...That mare looks just like my mare. I wonder what her breeding is. My mare has C.L. Buckley breeding. Tim, are you familiar with C.L. Buckley?

She reacts like a horse that hasn't been started. Do you think they missed out some steps in her 1st start?

Bit of a hard headed spoilt mare... well done.

Ooh, she's my kinda QH!!

Jan. 24, 2024 This is the first time I've seen one of your videos. I'm very concerned about your health and your being out of breath. I am hoping you are getting medical care from a pulmonologist. I admire your patience with the horse.

what are the bags your using on her sides

Lots of resistance and lots of deliberate inattention on her part!

Issues and rebellious.

We often attribute lack of training for problems, when the horse is actually telling us something hurts. This horse reacts as if she felt pain when full weight torqued the saddle during mounting. Her withers may be out of alignment, or the saddle doesn’t fit her correctly.

She is a beauty and spoiled

have you worked with a very pushy bossy Belgium??

If her initial training was solid, kinda makes you wonder what happened with her owners and why she was put out to pasture for 2 years

I read the comments why cant people . Horse people leave this man alone and not criticize ,just dont watch. Look at yourself.

Dangerous, those horse with long pasture breaks.

She looks a bit chonky, is she a halter horse? She has a lot of width in her chest, unlike Hank or Bob. She is built alot like the quarter horses i was around 4-5 decades ago.

Do you teach horse there name so you can use that to get there attenion?

She's distracted by the other horses and wants to be outside the arena with them. Honestly after 2 years in pasture she's not too bad

what are the bags you use on her sides?

It may seem like just semantics but I don't like a trainer to describe a trained horse as "broke." That terms dates back to the days when cowboys used force to subdue a horse and often wound up either breaking the horse's spirit or else antagonizing the horse to the point where fighting back was a more common response than cooperating. I don't think this trainer employs that sort of approach but I'd still feel better if instead of calling a trained horse as being "broke" he described the horse as being in need of some "fixing."

You are rough with the horse who is scared or feels threatened. Try 4 BP method. It is gentle, fast, the horse is not broken but dignified and yet understands what is being asked if it. They do it without all the pulling and tugging on bits and ropes. lol for yourself!!!

She's a good looking gal.

Her hind legs are so stiff. Is she sound?

Hancock bloodline in this mare? She is beautiful!

My horse was treated and recovered from ulcers is still very reactive to the saddle cinching process. How to determine if I am dealing with his anxiety to the past pain or an attitude avoid the work. Once saddled (very carefully ) He is a nice riding horse. Ive owned and ridden him for 10 years..I really need to get past this problem..

Shes a stinker! She seems to know what your asking of her, but is being argumentative. Am i correct in that assumption? At any rate, I enjoy your videos very much. 🐎

Purdy thing though

If that's a Skipper W mare, you need to treat them differently. I know, worked with a lot of them including rescuing the abused mare I'm sitting on. Turned her into a 4 time state champion

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I don’t think she is comfortable with you yet needs more time to trust you!

What I see is a very stiff moving mare. I suspect this is pain related refusal.

What size boat bumper did you use?

Something is going on with the right back leg.

She's training him. If she moves away from the block, he gets down off the block.

I've watched a few of your videos & have enjoyed them up to this point. I'm not one for using and/or agreeing with the necessity of gimmicks (yes, using boat bumpers are gimmick tool & people use all kinds of bizzare things to tie onto a saddle in place of their own butts). And obviously, I understand that you don't want to risk getting hurt with climbing into the saddle when that mare was not ready for you to be there. She just simply needed more hands on ground work. Sometimes, fear makes us do funny things.

Coda is cute

Unfortunately in the real world, this time is not taken probably because too many don’t even contemplate the part the horse plays physically and mentally.

For a horse thats been out for that time, you nee to condition the back and body to carrying weight. This horse had already done enough work before attempting mounting. Horse was giving plenty of signals that not comfortable. Most of the time theres no guidence or connection going on. To use your term your not being a leader and gicing clear communication.

Gorgeously put together girl. I do wish Qtr Hrs breeders would get away from that teeny head, though.

Beautiful horse. I noticed she is very thick in the rear end. Is that the breed characteristics?

I think you need to forget talking to camera. Talk to her and encourage her! She needs to get more love and listening to before enforcing with a whipp!

Watched this video twice....this horse is not overly comfortable in her body, and she seems to respond to the trainer out of fear, rather than a genuine connection with him. Wish the equine world could start evolving our training methods more towards patience and connecting, and away from punishment and an idea of 'respect' . I feel like horses are so smart and sensitive, but most people just really struggle to understand their needs and end up breaking their spirit.

She has been quite..... ah..... I just don't want to and if you test me.... you might just have a fight.!! there is a point to being forgiving and understanding. Scared .... uh No. stubborn...pfffff yup.

This nice mare

Tim you are tackling a lot of issues with this horse in one session. I think by comparison with the Steve Young videos he would spend the entire session on getting attention, obedience, and directing the feet, and would be recommending doing the same thing every day for a month before messing with saddles etc. I realize that you are a professional and time is money but i am hesitant about others trying to copy this demo, Steve Young's would be better as there are simpler principles in play given that both handler and horse are learning.