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DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. We do not advise anyone to do this with their horse we are experienced horse trainers and have trained Romeo to this standard. Attempting to do this at home could result in injury to your horse, yourself and others. This horse had bolted while pulling a tyre at home with his owners. This film shows he has now got his confidence back and will pull a tyre happily while being driven off a headcollar (bitless driving). We talk about things to consider when breaking your horse to harness. In this case, Romeo is going in a fourinhand to do driving trials competitions; we needed to show his owner that he no longer had any fear of the tyre. It is necessary to put the horse under pressure in similar circumstances to the one that caused him to runaway in case he ever experiences anything like that in the future. We are using a normal padded headcollar (the horse can use his bodyweight to pull against it should he wish to it is not a rope halter with a thin noseband that prevents him from pulling by causing pain. If he wanted to run away, we could not stop him from doing so). We show that Romeo will not panic even when the traces are round his legs, or when he is asked to pull the tyre backwards. Many accidents occur during the initial stages of breaking such as when pulling a tyre because people do not have the correct knowledge or skills of how to break a horse to harness. What we show here is that the horse can be reintroduced to pulling weight and go on to be a safe, confident horse with the correct training even if he has experienced a mishap. Romeo is fresh out the stable and as it is teatime he has not yet had his afternoon feed. We show that even with this disruption to his routine, and an incentive to get back in the stable, he is still wellbehaved and controllable in this situation. We do not advise anyone to do this with their horse we are experienced horse trainers and have trained Romeo to this standard. Attempting to do this at home could result in injury to your horse, yourself and others. When carriage driving has gone wrong, at whatever level, the horse suffers as a result and we believe breaking should only be undertaken if you have the knowledge to do so properly, to produce a horse that is safe, confident and happy, whatever sphere of harness work you do.
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