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SO many riders on green horses, horses never get broken and usually end up as meat...after 5 days driving to Mexico.
There are stables that will let you LEARN to "break" them, which is really to gentle and desensitize them.
I visited a now gone Welsh Mountain Pony farm. I asked them why there were about a dozen yearlings in a paddock with halters and dragging leads. They told me that the ponies teach themselves not to pull back better than a trainer can and assured me that, when finished these ponies tied quiet.
I had 5-7 (at any particular time) stone cold broken horses. I had a year round outside lesson program AND we went to about 8 Civil War Reenactments. The gunfire and cannon fire trained them to not fear loud noises and reverberations. The lessons taught them, more or less, basic Dressage, AND they were handled by EVERYBODY.
Couldn't repilicate this today.
If you ever go horse shopping again, choose somebody's show horse that is well behaved but doesn't place well enough in the show ring.
THAT is the closest you will get to what I had.
There are stables that will let you LEARN to "break" them, which is really to gentle and desensitize them.
I visited a now gone Welsh Mountain Pony farm. I asked them why there were about a dozen yearlings in a paddock with halters and dragging leads. They told me that the ponies teach themselves not to pull back better than a trainer can and assured me that, when finished these ponies tied quiet.
I had 5-7 (at any particular time) stone cold broken horses. I had a year round outside lesson program AND we went to about 8 Civil War Reenactments. The gunfire and cannon fire trained them to not fear loud noises and reverberations. The lessons taught them, more or less, basic Dressage, AND they were handled by EVERYBODY.
Couldn't repilicate this today.
If you ever go horse shopping again, choose somebody's show horse that is well behaved but doesn't place well enough in the show ring.
THAT is the closest you will get to what I had.