I was at the Road to the Horse when the baby horse attacked him, after Clinton harassed him for hours and hours. That baby was done. I have never in my life seen a horse - a baby horse- who had been trying so hard to get along with him and understand him- just get cooked to death in front of my eyes. It was sickening. And I didn’t hear about it on the innernet= I was there. Right there, about 20 rows up.
I saw him at an expo years ago. He fried a horse’s brain there as well. Was not impressed. I would never, ever let him near a horse of mine.
Every picture of every horse he is working with - the horses all look terrified.
I think he skates on damn little talent and sucks people (have ya’ll noticed it’s mostly women?) in with the “cute” Aussie accent and zillion mph delivery.
Run away…run away…
Clueless, cruel, unethical and destructive. Absolutely hate him.
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(I sincerely hope you’re betting against this jerk, OP!)
Clinton Anderson Presents: Star Treatment (search on YouTube).
Unfortunately, he will receive views so I advise you to skip to 9:22 and watch the next minute or so…
You have to wonder why all of his videos have the comments disabled 
Ugh. Hate the sound of his arrogant voice. I think some of his training techniques work fine, although I don’t consider them strictly his techniques. But he executes things with little feel. I saw a video where he loaded a difficult horse by basically harassing it in. It went in to get away from him.
He’s a well-marketed over-hyped mediocre trainer. I’m probably just a trail riding tree hugger to him anyway, so I’m sure he doesn’t care about my opinion, but I won’t spend a dime on his videos or products.
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Clinton Anderson Presents: Star Treatment (search on YouTube).
Unfortunately, he will receive views so I advise you to skip to 9:22 and watch the next minute or so…
You have to wonder why all of his videos have the comments disabled ;)[/QUOTE]
Holy crap. And yet people think that was a GOOD thing to do? What an attitude the man has. Walking life support system for an ego.
He is also drunk a majority of the time. Rum being his drink of choice. Hardcore fans bring him bottles of it to the shows.
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I was at the Road to the Horse when the baby horse attacked him, after Clinton harassed him for hours and hours. That baby was done. I have never in my life seen a horse - a baby horse- who had been trying so hard to get along with him and understand him- just get cooked to death in front of my eyes. It was sickening. And I didn’t hear about it on the innernet= I was there. Right there, about 20 rows up.[/QUOTE]
Not that I agree with Andersen’s methods but iirc, the horses used in the Road to the Horse were either 2 or 3 year olds, not “baby” horses. Young horses to be sure, too young to be worked that hard and in that manner, but hardly babies. A baby horse implies a foal.
Relative to riding, 2 and 3 YOs are babies. I refer to my 6 YO as a baby, since he’s taken so long to finish filling out and looking like a horse, plus he’s pretty low mileage.
I don’t care for the intensity and obedience approach to most of his methods. Too rough for my liking and not how I prefer to start horses.
That being said, I had a rotten little pony yearling. He was truly dangerous and I had tried everything I knew. As a last resort, I sent him to a local trainer that uses CA methods and follows them to a T. That little pony was a perfect gentleman in 2 days time. He never lost his spark or spunk, but he learned boundaries and ended up being an amazing little liberty trick pony!
So while not my preference and not something I subscribe to, I did see some incredible, lasting results in a pony that veterinarians told me to euthanize because he was so violent in a very short period of time.
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Not that I agree with Andersen’s methods but iirc, the horses used in the Road to the Horse were either 2 or 3 year olds, not “baby” horses. Young horses to be sure, too young to be worked that hard and in that manner, but hardly babies. A baby horse implies a foal.[/QUOTE]
That’s a whole 'nother problem in the horse world- 2 and 3 years most definitely are still “babies”
I have friends who went to learn at one of his expos.
They are too hard on untrained horses, but I don’t know if it is my friends or if they learned it from him. I don’t believe in being too tough on untrained horses. Sours them.
a friend was heavy into him years ago, and was so excited to take her horse to TX for a two week course with CA. The horse came home with holes in his sides from being spurred. We’re talking about a huge, athletic, forward appendix QH with zero forward issues. I have no idea what happened, we never talked about it (she knows/knew I loathe that man and frankly, there was no reason to talk about it). But- she did lease him out to a better home, and bought a purpose bred reiner and quit doing the CA garbage. She’s now super happy with a happy horse doing low level reining with a real live in-person trainer. I hate to think how much money she threw away and how hard she beat up on that horse of hers before it all went too far for her. At least it’s over.
He punishes horses for his poor riding.
He is an absolute pillock.
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That’s a whole 'nother problem in the horse world- 2 and 3 years most definitely are still “babies”[/QUOTE]
I agree with you entirely.
