Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here with a new horse that has come in for training for about two weeks. I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to see what kind of changes we can make over that kind of time.

This is Bailador who belongs to a woman from Los Angeles. He is a ten year old and a registered Oldenburg and interestingly enough he is actually the son of the stallion we have here named Contigo. As you can see he has a rather long back and is a very large horse and has had quite a few back problems and soreness. His back is looking pretty good today when a week ago he would flinch away from your hand. I have already worked him for a total of five days, three days in LA and two down here. I wanted to point out his back to you so you can see this dip here (as shown in the video). Do you see it? This was caused by a poor fitting saddle cutting off the circulation, which prevented him from developing muscles there resulting in this hole.

If we take a look at his neck, you can see that he is very developed underneath due to going around with his head straight up in the air. People had tried using all kinds of neck stretchers on him and then he was trained in draw reins and was over-bent  So we are trying to correct all those problems. As you can see in the video, he has a very long weak bridge along here. He is going to be something spectacular though once he is corrected because he is really a good mover. By looking at his back and how dipped it is, you can see that he has been going around basically on his forehand his whole life. We are going to change that over the next two weeks and see what kinds of improvements we can make in him.

Once again this is Bailador, Leslie Johnson’s horse from Los Angele,s and we will take a look at him over the next ten days and I will try to film every day so we can see his progression. Thank you very much!

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