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Is she chestnut, too?[/QUOTE]
chestnut appy mini molly mule (say that 3 times fast!)…I think that would be a WMD…
My appy was the most forgiving horse I ever rode… also put up with the least amount of BS. Super respectful horse, just don’t be a moron and he won’t be one back. 
[QUOTE=carolprudm;7751374]
Always good for a monday morning giggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ueprRcH5B4[/QUOTE]
Folks, you have to watch this one all the way to the end…:lol:
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Folks, you have to watch this one all the way to the end…:lol:[/QUOTE]
:applause::winkgrin:
What a performance! At what point did horse training stop being about the horse and start being about how much applause can be drummed up?
Egotistical a$$.
Clever horse!
Wiggle…wiggle…wiggle!
I love all the hugging at the end. Voila!
Oh I love that! Especially the star struck grin on the owner of that smart horse! Too bad we didn’t get to see Pepperoni’s face after the horse unloaded and took off.
He didn’t care at that point, anyway, since he’d done his performance and it wasn’t really about the horse, anyway.
I would guess that Arab had been shown at halter, did you notice when he started using the whip (oh wait carrot stick) the horse was posing?
When I came back to horse riding after 40 years I went to a parelli intro clinic to get back into the groove. I found it was pretty much what I had always done and had no problems with it. At that time I had a standardbred off the track, so I had a nice horse to start off with.
CUT TO: a 4 1/2 yo arabian , unbroken, unhandled. Went to a 3-day breaking clinic with a fellow who had worked with Tom Hunt and Bill Dorrance. Riding over hill country in 3 days, in a halter. Got home and started the Parelli ground work programme, and it was great fun. Pony loved it, and while she was growing we played the 7 games. First endurance outing at 5 1/2, and everyone comments on how well mannered my (now 2) horses are. We have never progressed beyond Parelli Level 1, and I have benefitted from other clinicians, notably Mark Rashid, in the years since.
CARROT STICKS: Parelli coined this name for the 4ft stick with a string and flag after he realised that there are basically two types of horse people - the ones who will use a carrot to bribe the horse, and the ones who will use a stick to beat it . His theory is to use the carrot stick in place of the carrot and the stick, find middle ground if you will. The stick is rigid, unlike a whip, which is flexible and can muddle the message in inexperienced hands. And you can probably guess why it’s orange, right?
Parelli himself has always recommended to start out at accredited Trainer clinics where you can learn the basics, and I have seen many people become confident handlers on the ground, in a controlled environment, after a 3 day course. Unfortunately, the nature of horse ownership these days means that many people with no horse experience are able (and encouraged) to own horses and as OP and others have said, the outcomes of their untutored efforts are laughable.
I am currently reading Bill Dorrance’s famous book “True Horsemanship Through Feel” and you know what? All the Parelli stuff is there, just not written for today’s market. As Parelli has said, there’s nothing new in what he teaches - he learnt it from the old horsemen he worked for in his youth - and there’s a lot of wisdom hidden in the hype.
Cheers, W.
- and one thing I have learnt is that I have one mouth and two ears, so have become a watcher and listener, and never comment unless I have a good word to say. Horses can make an idiot of you in no seconds flat, lol.
[QUOTE=carolprudm;7751374]
Always good for a monday morning giggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ueprRcH5B4[/QUOTE]
Lol!
