Bill Training notes Number 2:
Teaching a rescue horse (or any horse!) to find his confidence and trust again. FILMING WEEK After I had Bill in training for 10 weeks, we filmed one of his lessons with Manolo at La Mancha for a DVD project. To set the scene… Here is Bill, a young, green, timid, gentle giant in an arena that is normally very quiet with just Bill and I working together... But on this day there was a giant camera and tripod, a camera crew, bright spot lights, a handful of people watching and o
Teaching a rescue horse to find his confidence and trust again
Meet Bill. Bill was one of the most beautiful horses I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He was a 7 year old, 16.3 hand Percheron cross, a great big gentle giant. 6 months before Bill’s owners sent him to me for training they had rescued Bill from the sale yard and a precarious future where the specter of the knackery loomed strong. Bill's history is unknown. At some point he was obviously broken in but as his owners discovered, he didn’t like wearing a saddle and s
