Bailador Update
Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I wanted to give you all another update on Bailador. Today is the first day in a year and a half where we are able to ride him without lunging first. Look at how relaxed he is as he goes around the ring!
Once again, this is a horse that had a very badly damaged back. We spent a long time rehabbing his back and now he comes out and is perfectly capable of working relaxed. In our earlier videos, you could clearly see how he was breaking in the neck and had been previously overflexed in the neck from draw-reins. Now you can see that the neck is coming down straight and out, rather than curling back. He is now stretching the entire length of his body. Look how even his stride is! This is what we have to get, no matter how long it takes! For example, even if you have a nine year old horse that has been going around hollow it’s whole life, it will still take the same amount of time as a two year old. It takes a horse about two years to really get them working over their backs. We must get this no matter how long it takes, and then from here we build everything else. This is the foundation of correct training, getting the horse to work over it’s back. When you give the horse time to develop correctly, he will come up and you will have a much more uphill looking horse and then you can develop real collection, not the phony collection we so often see.
Once again, this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride with my associate trainer Amber Matusek and we will see you next time!
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Jay Kay says: That’s awesome – thank you for sharing
Barb M says: Can you give more information on how you rehabilitated his back? I have a horse whose neck is thankfully still in tact, but has a very weak back and requires extensive rehab and apart from lungeing, I don’t know what else I should be doing.
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Kali says:
Lunging is all you need! Along with that you can work the horse in hand, see the video on the subject. When the horse can stretch down and swing it’s back with you on it, you are ready to ride. So just keep doing what you’re doing and remember to follow the guidelines that I give you on the video. Bailador, who was and extreme case, took me about a year before he could really do much riding.
That’s awesome – thank you for sharing
Can you give more information on how you rehabilitated his back? I have a horse whose neck is thankfully still in tact, but has a very weak back and requires extensive rehab and apart from lungeing, I don’t know what else I should be doing.
Lunging is all you need! Along with that you can work the horse in hand, see the video on the subject. When the horse can stretch down and swing it’s back with you on it, you are ready to ride. So just keep doing what you’re doing and remember to follow the guidelines that I give you on the video. Bailador, who was and extreme case, took me about a year before he could really do much riding.