Just come out of our place
if you look behind, we've just come out now. So what we've got is a mare in season
and 2 3yo stallions (colts) on the outside.
What the purpose of this is, is these stallions have got to go out in all company; they're going to be shown maybe
go out on drives
and they want to be kept as entire.
Got to have them so they just go along and not take any notice of her.
See the mare showing a bit now, swishing her old tail about, and we want her
to be like that because this sort of thing is
the sort of thing that happens
when you get out in company and a stallion smells a mare
or she's a bit seasony and you've got trouble. You can see her showing now, look
the mare.
So you can see she's a mare
and he's a stallion
as you can see.
This one's also a stallion
so there we are - 2 stallions either side of a mare.
They're good boys to stand there. He's dropped himself out
this nearside horse, see him
craning his neck, telling her how wonderful he is.
But he's standing quiet. The reason we're doing this is
when you want to take them out in company you want them to behave themselves.
I don't want you phoning me up and saying "Oh I took them out Baz but they played up"
They won't play up if you can drive them and I don't mean that with any disrespect.
If you're a coachman and you can drive them, you'll drive these out with that roof-seated break
and if you've got a mare there that's a bit warm
you know with someone else who's gone out, they should stand no trouble at all.
and if you look down there on her you can see where she's spraying
and shooting there
herself out on the road.
The point being, these are full-up 3yos, and a mare showing in heat like you see when we were
stood up,
people say it can't be done, well it can be done if they're trained right.
These have just been with us a little while
just hit these brakes now and tell them "Whoa" and I want the stallions to stand with the mare swishing her tail
where she's showing a bit. Walk.
And they're all going away at the walk,
walk on.
Jig-jog
Barely faster than a walk,
okay now trot
and then trot on. So you've got your 3 paces there, and all done off of rubber bits.
If you can control two 3yo colts with a mare up the middle that's showing in season
then the rubber bit must do the job mustn't it? Its obvious. I'm controlling them, I'm not pulling
their heads off with great lumps of iron
in their mouths so to me that proves the point.
Nothing wrong with a rubber bit if the horse is broke properly and the person on the reins can drive.
And these are just going along here sweet as a nut and if I wanted to speed them up or slow them down... All going along cantering, 3 abreast.
Bring them back to a halt, all on rubber, 2 stallions and a mare
standing quiet. They're all 3yo, she's just coming into season
she's already showing, you can see her dropping on the road there, spraying.
So she's there, all standing quiet.
Are the stallions taking a blind bit of notice of her? No - because they're broke properly,
educated.
If these horses were afraid of me, you wouldn't stop them. Stop them in rubber bits?
You'd be a long time stopping them
if you had a lump of iron in their mouths. I have to say they've been to another yard
I don't know where
and I don't want to know, its not my business but they had them there 9 weeks
and only got them in single and
didn't take them off the premises - that's what I was told
you know I can only tell you the story I've been told
from the man that owns them.
And the other trainer didn't want to put them together in harness - he said they want castrating,
cutting, well, what do they want that for? They're perfect - look at them standing there quiet as lambs.
With a piece of rubber in their mouth,
with a mare in season between them.
You know whichever way you want to dress it up, that's fact, they're standing there,
its in black and white.
Its in black and white they're just standing there doing the job, piece of rubber.
But its how you break them. They've got to listen to me and
do what I ask them to do, because you might want this horse to come up, come back,
come tighter to the pole, come off the pole for whatever reason.
Well you've got to be able to talk to them through your voice,
which we like to do through the voice mainly because if you try and do it
off two reins, what you've got to do is look at your finger
along here, right? Please do this.
Get a Liverpool, put it on there. Put the curb chain under here
and then just put it gently - it'll make you cry with pain.
Well that's all they've got on their little bars in their mouths.
And surely we don't want to control them with pain do we? So its far better off to have them
broke properly
so they do as they're told. These are 3yo horses
whichever way you do it. I'm just going to do this now - stand still.
So that's the whip, straight over their heads.
The point is I want them to stand still under awkward circumstances, difficult circumstances,
do as they're told
- that's what we're looking for.
Right walk boys come on.
Just go with 2 fingers holding them, not got to hang onto them.
You say "Oh well its Barry Hook he can drive anything and all this silly load of crap they talk about, well there's Melanie driving them,
keeping them all going sweet, and she's no weight at all
and there she is driving them perfectly fine,
one-handed.