Starting untouched stallion naturally: IRL

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hiya ;D A friend of mine in Ireland has started a good few horses naturally this year, but for the past while has been looking for a just about completely untouched horse to work with, to see how a natural starting process would work with such a horse ..................

Two days ago a young piebald stallion, completely unhandled, who had previously lived all his life in a field with his 3yo brother, arrived at the yard....... anyway, long story short, he's going to put up reports of how he's starting him, so I thought it might be interesting to see how he gets on.

Anyway, PM me if you'd like the web address
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hiya ;D A friend of mine in Ireland has started a good few horses naturally this year, but for the past while has been looking for a just about completely untouched horse to work with, to see how a natural starting process would work with such a horse ..................

Two days ago a young piebald stallion, completely unhandled, who had previously lived all his life in a field with his 3yo brother, arrived at the yard....... anyway, long story short, he's going to put up reports of how he's starting him, so I thought it might be interesting to see how he gets on.

Anyway, PM me if you'd like the web address
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There's no such thing as starting a horse naturally as in 'nature' they don't usually get ridden.
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I'm all for unnatural and artificial myself.
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Forgive me but I always smile cynically at posts like yours..
How does "natural" come into it?
To do anything with a horse like that you first have to gain it's trust and persuade it that anything you ask is acceptable such as touching and training.
There is no such thing as "natural" in my experience, merely common sense!
Few people nowadays apart from the travelling community rough handle their horses, the knowledge has improved so much thanks to people like Monty Roberts and a general desire to achieve better communication with horses in general.
I doubt your friend will be doing anything new, just going slowly and sensibly towards making friends with the stallion, though of course I admire that, I do also worry a bit about the way "stallion" is used, they really aren't wild dangerous creatures anymore than a gelding unless the person handling them involves mares, why does it have to be a stallion? Seems rather a strange thing to want to me..
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ok, by natural I mean liberty work, groundwork, then riding. not the trad lunging / longreining approach. Its nothing new
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but I just thought itd be interesting reading. Its only a stallion, cos that what horse happened to be.
 
I see, I assumed it had to be a stallion as that would be more challenging, sorry.
I will look at the link as I am always happy to learn something new, I assume by liberty you mean round pen ? The next bit puzzles me, if you don't do any long reining how does it learn to steer?
We have backed horses within a day or two, mostly by some gentle lungeing, a little long reining then getting straight on and going out with another for a hack..
mostly however we do traditional lungeing and long reining, lead the horse out from another in full tack for hacks then get on and ride it.
They rarely worry doing it this way but I would be interested in how the long reining bit can be missed out?
Thanks, I'll follow the link
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It seems to me that if you're interested, like henryhorn, you'll go and have a look and follow the story.
I know that steering is taught by establishing that the horse can follow a feel on a rein/rope on the ground, then transfering it to ridden work. But that's just a broad answer, I'm looking forward to reading about this one.
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