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Hahaha, if it's been more than 5 mins it's snack time! Problem is that one he grabbed off the ground that I stole back off him would make him sick, he doesn't descriminate, he just says FOOD! So sometimes I have to be mean Mummy and steal food out of the babes mouth.

Thank you so much, I am glad you liked it :D

@deborahross4868 thank you so much for your lovely comments. We have worked so hard on being a team through many hours and many miles together and I do know he trusts me and that makes me happy. It was why I was so broken hearted when we had our accident, not for the damage to me, but for the fright he got. I do feel confident he will get his courage back as we built such a strong foundation together and he never even flinched when I put the cart back on him. Haters are always gonna hate sadly even when they don't truly understand what they are seeing or misconstrued what they saw.

Thank you for your question. Sometimes it's because we need to evade off lead dogs, sometimes it's to get ahead of vehicles, sometimes it's because we have to remove ourselves from an area for any number of reasons but mostly it's for fun. Usually he takes very little encouragement to hoon but he was more cautious this day because this was retracing our accident trip for the first time so it was more his lack of confidence and normal fitness this day causing his hesitation as we aren't back in full work yet as I am still recovering.

You obviously don't pay attention, if you look properly, I am not "whipping this poor pony", I'm cracking the whip (making noise and encourage) or hitting the ground the vast majority of the time, do you think he'd snuggle and cuddle me and work with me if I was indeed beating my pal or being cruel in any way to him? Perhaps if you wouldn't make an educated snap judgement, and simply be a keyboard warrior if you attempted to educate yourself more as my videos are intended to do. I am sorry you didn't enjoy it unlike others who have followed my videos do and found them either entertaining of a helpful resource, you are welcome to move on. My horse has a mentally, physically and nutritionally balanced life and is happy and healthy 90% of his days, can you say the same?

Oh my god, did you just say that!!!! They love to pull carts. They love to be active. Silly mare. I’m shocked

@lauradorr6558 hopefully he will get more and more confident on each trip. It was such a scary accident it will take a moment. The cart pushes him around as it bounces over the rocks and keeping his footing can be a little challenging especially if we add slippery weed and fast flowing current to the mix so it will take him a minute.

@ahashdahnagila6884 not that huge. It's part of the local reserve, this is Marlborough New Zealand in the South Island, sadly we are over run by vineyards though most won't allow access to them but this one is on publicly owned land.

To be honest, it wasn't a fear for me, it was for him. I am hoping he gets better and better though. We need to do lots more river runs, those are the scary places because the cart bouncing over all the river rocks shoves him around and makes it a little scary for him to get his balance. Problem is, those are those only access to water we have these days.

I appreciate that, thank you.

Thanks, it was nice to get him out again.

Thank you for your kind comment, I'm still healing, he's raring to go for our next adventure.

Yes that's true, like they say, it's not what you can see, it's what you can't see. The steel holding the wheel on had rusted through and so the part of the axle holding the wheel on just snapped off.

Yes, it certainly could have been a lot worse. I'm 100% worse off than he is, he's normal, I'm bruised from my shoulders to my toes.

@makeitdofarm3076 I am hoping my Mr Fixit can indeed fix it. The wheel snapped straight off, the metal it sits on was still inside the wheel so he should be able to punch that out and weld a new heavier piece of steel onto the axle.

Thank you.

@rosie7346 my confidence is OK, it was nobodies fault, the steel snapped, that is hard to foresee. I just felt so awful for poor Danny, he got such a fright and kept trying to run to me to save him before sadly running over me time and time again.

​@DeeinNZ yikes! So hard not to be able to help him! Glad you have your confidence.

@@DeeinNZ Poor Danny! At least for your sake, he's a small horse and not a big one!

Yes indeed, I think if he was a full sized hack and had fallen on me, I wouldn't be here any more.

Oh my. Reading the comments and found out what happened. So glad you both will be ok. So scarey. take your time healing. ❤❤❤

Thank you for your lovely comment and thank you for watching.

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@gnostic268 thank you for your kind words. It will take a little time to heel.

Thank you for your comment, you are welcome for the sharing. I find your comment 'most equines in harness aren't intended to gallop' interesting ...1-he's not galloping, he's cantering, 2-why not? Do you not see horses in marathon classes and scurry classes going at speed? We don't show, we don't compete, we do this for fun, going fast IS FUN, he loves it and so do I. Yes I watch lots of other drivers, I have some favourites and it's always interesting to see what others do. When it comes to horses, we all do things differently, nobody is necessarily right or wrong, we are different and celebrating differences is a grand thing, life would be boring of we were all the same. Do you mean the reins are disturbing because I refuse to have hold of his mouth unnecessarily or because we use them as an encouragement at times? If it's the use of them instead of the whip, that's the way he was trained, and he responds to cajoling more than insistance via a whip, he can flat out ignore the whip if that's his mindset at the time.

We do have some nice pathways in our local reserves, I wish we had forests as it would be much nicer under foot and the shade and shelter would be most welcome.

you would be most welcome.

You are very welcome, he makes me smile so it's nice that our adventures do the same for others. We are in Spring so summer is coming, we will have the scorching hot days and brown grass very soon.

Yes, it was arranged to go out with them. He loves company but most are too scared to go out with us because they all think their horses will be scared. The Gypsy is young and inexperienced and in less than 5 mins he went from 'what the heck is that?' to 'ok, I need to play with that, it looks like fun' to 'get out of my way'. It's never the horses who are scared, it's always the people who create the fear.

@@DeeinNZ I love those words, wise wise words! I am so guilty of creating fear, too.

Your welcome :D Lots of rain causes lots of big puddles to play in

Thanks so much for your lovely comments. It was a little hairy in the beginning but I knew he needed the experiences, challenges and opportunities for us to build trust, learn more about each other and figure out what worked for us, now he's awesome but the beginning sure was challenging, he's the toughest pony I've ever had and he was sure hard work in the beginning but totally worth it. It's why we did 19 months of long reining before we put a cart anywhere near him, he had so much energy and attitude to burn haha.

Hahaha which one the large one or the small one?

@@DeeinNZ The smalller darker one

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@@TraumhausRommelsried ah, no she's just young and in training, this was only her 2nd outing with a group. She's doing amazing. It's all experience and confidence building at this stage, I offered her the chance to see if she'd brave going over first, knowing she might say no, that's ok, she will get braver every time, it was a steep exit too.

Me too, company always makes things more fun, I adore Danny but he can't hold a conversation to save himself and I talk way to much! Hahahaha.

Awww thank you :D We did, and best of all, we got another outing the next day.

It was a lot of fun :D

I know doesn't he look awesome clipped? He's so much more comfortable clipped at this time of the year.

There aren't any on this video except yours as far as I know.

@@DeeinNZ I saw one earlier talking about the dogs. You Tube is really deleting a lot of comments lately. It makes no sense why they are doing it.

@@shakeyj4523 oh wow, ok, I never even saw it.

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Thank you for your lovely comments, yes though sadly it means it will get cold quick, we all love the inbetween seasons, not to hot, not to cold ... though if you notice he's getting super fluffy now, I gave his tail a winter chop last night, he will be clipped soon and feel better, if I don't clip him out for winter he overheats far too much. No he is used to everything flying around, the Taylor River is right beside Omaka airport where they teach pilots to fly so when we travel up and down it there are always planes practicing take offs and landings so a lot of them come pretty low over us, every now and then the shaddow will give him a bigger fright than the actual plane. He LOVES the river, Marlborough has such hard stoney grounds I think the water is soothing on his feet. I love the rivers too which is why when I go places I try really hard to get access to one as I know he appreciates the drink, especially if we are out for 3 hours or when it's warm out.

Thank you for your lovely comments. Yes, it's hard when you don't have company, we love it and they love it, my biggest issue is people think their horses will be scared of the cart but the reality is, it's the people who are scared, very quickly the horses don't even care.

Aww thank you for your nice comment. I have a bit of a conflicting feeling about the vineyards, very few of them allow access to their headlands which is the best surface and the safest place for us to be. Where you see me go through vineyards is usually only because those parts are on public land and they have no choice but to allow us access. It's rather heartbreaking because so much land has been turned into vineyards there are becoming fewer and fewer places to ride and roads are scary these days, especially when your only little so we pick and choose, depending on the day or the week, the time of the day and even the time of the year where we can go.

Oh? What part disgusted you, the stunning scenery, the beautiful autumn day, the river, the teamwork, the conversation, the laughter, or the horses joy and exuberance living his best life enjoying exercise and scenery instead of being confined to a paddock?

Hi and thank you for your input. I did do all of that (except the treat, I had none) I think I figured out what happened. A few weeks ago on another drive, he slipped going over an arch bridge, I think it's thrown him because he'd been over that particular bridge a heap of times with no issue but because it's another arch bridge, I think he was worried he was going to slip again so considering that, I think I might need to lead him over arch bridges for awhile till he gets his confidence back.

@@DeeinNZ Yes, that would do it. Leading is a good idea too. Mine slipped on some paint, and it took her a couple of weeks to be comfortable again. She got mad though. She wants to stomp it every time we go over painted markings on the road. They are such interesting creatures.

Thank you so much for your lovely comments. We got out as often as weather and my health allow, sadly I have health challenges meaning I don't get to do it as much as I'd like but I aim for 3 times a week, sometimes we hit the target, sometimes it's a couple of weeks because we go out. I have numbered every single drive in the video description and dated every one in the title which tells you how many we have done in total and generally how often because I did think that would indeed be a question. I first started putting them up because I could find very little about harness training a mini specifically and then I decided it was a good thing to share because he can be such a challenging pony and I know there were times I felt like a failure so I hoped there would be others out there who might find inspiration to keep going when things aren't going according to plan in whatever their passion is, then I thought it would be neat to document our progress and finally I thought it might be nice for my friends who don't live near me and other people to see some of my local scenery and the places we go so I am very happy to hear you are enjoying our videos and I value your comments, thank you.

Oh and finally, I thought if I could get enough subscribers, maybe it could help contribute to a some treats for Danny because my budget is always so stretched with the fuel required to get us to places.

Awww that is so lovely to hear. I am glad you enjoyed it. Must have been a lovely childhood.

@@DeeinNZ yes it was

Absolutely, he did not do well with them on, he is too nosy, he wants to see all so he would twist himself around trying to see around them, made me think what was the point? So I took them off. Like everything with horses they are not a one size fits all, they will always try and show you what they need.

Aww thank you so much. We have our challenges but I would like to think we have indeed built a bond and he knows i have his back, he's got very good now at standing still knowing I'll protect him from dogs and I would hope that would carry over to trusting me on other things but thank you for your lovely comment.

Because we did 19 months of long reining even after doing a good 6 months of getting to know each other before we even attached a cart I got to know him and his reactions pretty well. I know that he likes to buck and I know when he gets super frustrated he rears but thankfully between the 2 of us we know not to push it far enough that he would flip over backwards (I hope) I don't usally get scared persay but the backing up and the spitting of his bit trying to evade me when things are going really wrong I would say unsettles me more than scares me, simply because by him doing so we have completely lost our form of communication and have effectively stopped 'talking' to each other, those times I am sad his reactions have taken over the power from our teamwork so I just work at trying to get him back. I have had one instance where he nearly sent us backward over a bank into a ditch which was scary but I don't hesitate to jump out and grab him (as you saw) if things go into the too hard basket but only for a reset as the fix has to be from driving, leading him through a situation is not a success, it's a fail in my mind. It's one of the biggest challenge in harness and where it differs the most from riding, you MUST have the ability to reassure, reinforce and engage from behind without patting them. It's why harness horses have to be braver out front on their own but still take direction instead of someone clamping legs on and stroking a neck. Thank you for watching and I appreciate your question.

Thank you. I do love his pretty dapples.