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Watch Monty's horse training videos to learn how he demonstrates communication through horse training techniques that the amateur and professional alike consider to be the trainable skills of a horse whisperer yet Monty calls it horse gentling.
Monty's horse training techniques are non violent with intelligent natural horsemanship. In addition to video instructions, Monty has written many books related to natural horsemanship. Monty trains safe horses for nervous riders called Willing Partners. Monty trains world class race horses for sale.
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“I communicate with a horse in what I call the Language of Equus; a silent language of gestures that is discernible, predictable and effective. Now you can learn from my videos, audio and notes to help you understand the horse as I do. This language is really quite simple, but simplicity becomes its greatest strength.” ~ Monty
Monty Roberts is a renowned horse trainer known as the man who listens to horses and the original horse whisperer. Monty's horse training instructions are accepted worldwide.
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Join-Up methods help horse and trainer to establish a bond of communication and trust. “You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.” ~ Monty
Monty says, “We hear that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but generally we do not live by it too successfully.” Now Monty has taught thousands of people worldwide how to build trust in animals through our actions and body language.
Monty’s principles really amount to common sense and immense patience. He believes that children and horses have the same behavioral patterns. They are both naturally “flight” animals. "If you frighten them and resort to confrontation, you’ll lose their trust." ~ Monty
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ex racehorses

By:

Paige&Nero

Date:

2009-Dec-03 at 07:25PM

I would love to see a video of how to retrain a racehorse as mine gets very confused when I long lined him, panicked and galloped off and that is how he reacts when I try to teach him something new as he is smart and wants to please but gets claustrophobic when confused or when I confuse him would be more accurate. so just a video on what might be done differently and what sections to work more on ect.
Thanks, paige.

jo_jim 2016-May-24 at 03:40PM

agreed! also have an exracehorse who panics if he doesn't know what is happening.

bahila73 2016-May-25 at 11:55PM

Hello and welcome, with most ex-racehorses, most of their training has been about one thing RUNNING that is keyed by BOLTING out of the staring gate, while being stuffed with high energy grains to keep their systems operating on nutrient overload. `Not a good scenario for a pleasurable trail ride. Most of these horses have to be restarted with basics as you would a young horse that has never been backed. As new owners, insist on a slow, methodical system of training because you have to change how the horse thinks when it comes to being ridden. For your pleasure, you must be able to bring about a softness to the manner by which your horse is handled along with a consistency that the horse can count on. These horses can be a handful for an experienced trainer and overwhelming for the new trainers.
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.You mentioned long lining. I would suspect that the horse has probably never been long lined before. Race horses are just trained differently. People buy or acquire racehorses usually because they have been ridden before with the misconception that they can be ridden with not very much training. This has always been a problem as there are many horses being retired from the track every day.
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.My suggestion would be to find a trainer with the experience to restart the process and take the time necessary to build a connection with the horse.
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.I hope this helps, Bud

vicci - UK (North Wales) 2016-May-26 at 04:24PM