Training Gold Dollar

Trained a one-year-old colt named Gold Dollar...Stubborn horse, full of life, and loves to run. Beautiful yellow color with white stripe on his face and good conformations, but Gold Dollar is not a yellow dun. When he was born, we thought he was a red dun. However, we sent samples off just to find out that he was just a dun.
To start...I got familiar with Gold Dollar by grooming him. First by giving him a bath which was hard because he likes lying down in the mud. After he was dry I brushed him down, which he loves. I fed him snacks such as apples and sugar cubes to make him like me and to keep his interest. But most of all, I exchanged breathe so he will be familiar with my scent. This is very important to calm the horse.
Training Gold Dollar was hard work, but it was worth it. My grandfather, who owns and operates a farm, started Gold Dollar"s haltering training. Gold Dollar would just lie down and refused to move. So we tied him to a blue ford tractor. He can no longer refuse to move. Lol.
Haltering training is about controlling your horse to follow where you lead him to go. You know when the training is complete when he does not pull or fight back. The purpose for controlling him is when take him out around other horse or loading in the trailer. This took several weeks with Gold Dollar.
I used a round pen made up of six foot gates with a foot of sand on the ground to bog down the horse as it runs. In the round pin, he would just jump the six-foot fence. It was amazing to see him jump the fence but was a journey to run him down. After returning him to the round pin and tying a rope to him,
We started running him around the pin. Several rounds of ten laps one direction and then ten laps the other until he tired. I know he was tired when he submitted. When a young horse submits, he will gum you. Gumming is what a young horse does to a older horse to show submission. This is known as breaking the horse.
I tied the rope to different parts of his body, his legs, his waist, and his neck so he would get used to being tangled such as with barbwire. Also to get them used to the rope because you have to catch them. This older trainer once said "Them cowboys in Oklahoma said they had to catch their horses every morning." He said "I do too." He held his rope up and the horse came and put his head in the loop.
Then tied a bag to a stick and rub it all over his body to teach him not to spook easily. Leaving him tied up to a pole in the middle of pin, we would lift his legs to get him use to cleaning his hooves.
I know his training was done when I walk to one side and then to the other. If he follows when I walk away the training is complete.



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