This came to me in an email.
I think you'll all love this!!!
The horse is like a big, trained doggy....
Loved it!
The Popkum News - A Horse Whisperer...
She can't hear she can't speak.
No bridle, no saddle... all commands are by touch only.
A Horse Whisperer
This girl riding the horse is in her 20's - her father passed away just 24
days before this performance. You can hear her dedication to him just
before her performance so turn up your speakers a bit. Notice that it is
just her and the horse - no bit, no saddle.
She uses signals and touch cues, she's mute.
Oh yeah, this isn't even her horse. She is training it for someone else,
although she obviously has a relationship with this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKK7AXLOUNo&feature=player_embedded
Simply Incredible..... smiley_clapping smiley_clapping smiley_clapping.......Cheyenne
Simply Incredible is right, that young lady actually makes it look much too easy, heck I wish I could make it look like that with my saddle and bridle, definetly an awesome amount of communication between the two!
Holy cow! For a second there I thought that was a video of me and Becky (aka, the fat horse) . :D
You mean that wasn't you Patty? I thought the announcer just had the name wrong. ;D
Amazing performance.
Amazing what some people can do with an animal.
Doug , ya don't need be a horse lover to watch this performance. It just goes right up there with the best in my book. :)
Patty , it's good to have a dream :) :-*
Great!
I told Patty Becky could run circles around that horse, only thing she'd need was a handful of sweet feed.
For some reason she was doubtful. :D
Thanks I enjoyed watching this. I can really appreciate the time and patience required to get a horse to this point. Many people don't realize how when a horse is trained properly it needs to respond to your leg commands, so this video might seem really amazing. The most amazing thing to me is how she can hold on so well particularly with the stops, without a saddle. The primary horse I ride, "wings" has never had a bit in her mouth I went straight to a hackamore and she responds to the lightest touch imaginable.
Couple years ago I attended The Mid-West Horse Fair which is held in Madison WI, and one of the things they had there is the Mustang Challenge, if I remember correctly 90 participants where selected and given at random each a mustang off the range never trained. It was amazing to see how far these people progressed with these animals, some where as well trained as the horse in the video shown, the trainers rode with no bridal. But they had to go through and obstacle course designed to frustrate horses. They fired guns, walked through water, over strange surfaces, backed up through a maze etc.... all this was achieved in 90 days from getting a totally green horse off the range. If you want to see more amazing riding just youtube mustang challenge.
That is awesome.
I wish video cams had been available in the late sixties and early seventies.
My dad had a palomino quarter horse that he trained for cutting and roping.
Streaka Lighting was her name. When cutting critters out of a herd a dad would pick the one he wanted and drop the reins on the horn and then stand in one stirup while streaka headed the critter to the gate. Streaka would do a "wheel turn" on her back legs with dad standing in the inside stirrup. Dad had her trained so that there was one brief second where the motion of the stirrup was pretty much a dead stand still and about 10 inches from the dirt so he could step out to open the gate while Streaka finished the job of taking the critter through the gate. I swear dad could have cut cattle out of a herd from the ground just with voice and hand signals but he always said riding was as much fun as having a horse that could do that.
The one thing I do know is that Streaka loved cutting a lot. We put her in 120 x120 pen once with saddle on for about a half hour while we ate lunch and in about 5 minutes she was cutting out calves just for the fun of it.
Doug, that's a great video, but Stacy is not mute - unless she lost her voice in the last 60 days...
She is a previous winner of the "Road to the Horse" competition, and Laureen and I saw - and heard - her earlier this year in Murfreesboro, TN when she gave a demonstration at the 2011 competition.
She is truly a gifted trainer; thanks for sharing.
Scott
I was wondering about that also, saw her in an interview on one of the trailers to that video. We got that video on email a few months back and I was under the impression the horse was deaf, have no idea though, any way you look at it she and the horse are both remarkable.
Another good video is the final performance of Rugged Lark. It is also amazing.