Re-train an Ex-race horse

DaQalai'e, my horse is actually was a racer. he retired at the age of 7...quite long time he had in racing field because most of the race horses start their career at 3 years old and get deleted by the age 4 or 5 if they didn't performed well, injured etc..

he had not been much an easy-going horse since he arrived and he is well-known at the club by nickname such as " kuda gila", "kuda samseng" etc because of his refusal to many things we ask him to do. those stable boys found it hard to work with him, because, there was a time both of us(me & hubby) couldn't ride him because we're focusing more on Sylva, and we pay the boys to ride & train him. but, from one to two, two to three stable boys we hired, all of them can't disciplined DaQalai'e and end up laid on the ground thrown by him... ;P

actually, he had been ridden by 7 person so far, me & hubby, 4 stable boys and 1 friend. 6 person end up "makan pasir" with him. the only person who never fall is his friend, who like to work with ex-racer and owned few at home, and one of his ex-racer won a race organized by locals. see the entry here. but, apparently that is not something good, though. those who rode him & fell mostly because we fought the horse, but this one person, never fought the horse's demand. he just follow all the decision that horse made. if right, he goes right, if left, he goes left, if the horse rushed to the gate & stable ; he ride far in the field, keeping distance from the gate.

I so much feels like, there is no use letting a person who couldn't discipline a horse to ride our horse. wasting time. and to be the climax of that person's "trying to be a trainer", DaQalai'e had a back pain & wounded on the right side of his mouth. Ever since then, I urged my hubby to focus more on DaQalai'e himself. and after gathering his old equipments, we finally managed to get a complete set for lunging. includes of a lunging whip, cavesson, & a lunging rein.

31st Jan is the 1st day we started working with him...and thank GOD, he is so amazing to work with. it makes me cry and keep apologizing for the past 5-6 months that we had ignore his talent.

at the first 10 minutes, he actually bolted a little bit..but that is normal...he is freaking out to see the long whip, and moreover, we don't have proper lunging ring there...so we just lunge him in a square paddock, so he quite wanted to draw his own line apart from obeying his trainer's circle.

he is rushing to the gate...look at the trainer's hand, both is holding him back into the circle

see the stress on the rein...and the cavesson is pulled to his right

SEE THE VIDEO HERE

after 15 minutes......

he lowered his head, which is a good sign of acceptation..can see loop of the rein

Finally....obeying orders quietly, no more refusal, and managed to keep his legs on the track all the time. and quite exhausted.

DaQalai'e maybe saying "no body ever make me work this much. i'll throw them away first before the could make me work my ass this long.(40 minutes). but this man...pheww! he made me work without bothering to be on me, and held a long whip in his hand! OMG!!"