Problem Horse: He Flips Over

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I owned a beautiful palomino named Misty. I owned her from age 6 until her passing at age 21. She flipped over backwards on me 12 times until I finally figured her out. Vets checked out everything they found nothing. I simply changed her bit to a bit less bridle/ hackamore. She stopped flipping. Her mouth was just extra sensitive. Her whole being was sensitive. We road hundreds of miles together, trails and shows. She and I became inseparable. I could ride her anywhere with a thought alone eventually. When she passed I lost my best friend. ❤️

Good for this lady to check for pain first to the point she even rode bitless. Most people don't even think pain first. She a good owner.

When I was 11 or 12 years old, I used to ride horses at a friend's farm. They bought a beautiful bay gelding, that was a dream to ride and work. Part of the deal was a buckskin gelding with behavior problems came with the other horse. They were bonded friends. The buckskin had been abused badly, you could feel old scars from spurs and whips under his coat. His mouth had been damaged and he had a serious mistrust of men. Something about him lured me in and I begged to be given a chance to work with him. Gaining his trust and getting to a point where he would give me what I asked of him, took several months. Most of that time wasn't in the saddle. It was working around him, working other horses and bringing him along on rides. Showing him that humans weren't all abusive. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. He taught me so much! Watching your video was terrific. You truly have a gift. It was lovely to watch that gelding begin to focus on you and to give you what you were asking for. This was the first video, of yours, I have watched, but it will not be the last. Thank you very much!

My gosh this woman is brave! Congrats to her for working through his issues and not just dumping him somewhere.

I am more impressed with this trainer than I expected to be. This is a very sensitive horse (some call this reactive) and in my experience there are a lot of 'cowboy trainers' who don't know how to deal with this type of horse. Well done Mr. Rose.

Lucky horse to finally find a trainer who is trying to understand and connect with him. He looks very standoffisch and tight lipped with his head being high up in the air! It's great to see how his defensive behaviour disappeared when he came in lowering his head, chewing and even taking a deep breath. He looks like a worried horse that doesn't trust people too much. I hope you get to work him some more and he can learn to understand to get soft and forward. Thank you for sharing!

This connection this horse has with this guy almost immediately is AMAZING!

I loved that you clued in to his being an introvert! Just like humans, not all horses are the same. Learning to understand them and work with them, as you said "where they are" is so necessary, for ALL species of creatures.

Finally someone who trains by calmly communicating with a horse instead of using excessive force! He seems extremely willing to work with you and wants to understand what you're asking from him :)

I must say, I was truly touched by the way you got into this horse's head, making a connection with him, and seeing his response. I could see the light of interest go on in him. Just wonderful.

Interesting case. This horse not only held his head high, he also seemed determined to look outward at everything except the human in the ring with him, right up until his attention was required. He'd focus on Ryan but as soon as he moved out, his head was pointed outward--he rotated his ears like he was listening, but continued to focus outside the ring. It will be interesting to see part 2. Hope you can help this horse--I had a well-trained horse flip over on me when I was in my teens, and am now profoundly disabled due to old injuries. It's really easy to get badly hurt working around horses. On to part 2...

We love ya, man! "Why is this horse so troubled?" This is why we love you, RR. You have such empathy with your equine AND human students. My patreon follow with your account is the best money I have ever spent on my horses. You rock, Dude.

My horse growing up was a 'flipper.' I was the only one that could really ride him. 18.1hh warmblood. Grew up in an area where ground work wasn't really a thing that was done - it was all hop on and hope for the best. The horse was extremely introverted, actually seemed quite shut down when I first started riding him (no personality, no reaction to anything aside from rearing/flipping over from pressure when he was unsure or nervous of something). Took several months for him to come out of his shell. Slow and easy with pressure won the race. Even after 2 years I'd still have some days where I'd get on and would spend 40 min just trying to get him to walk on a loose rein without rearing. Loved to see the groundwork side of this! If only more people took the time to understand the horses they were working with, as you do.

These are some of my favorite videos Ryan does. I love watching him work with horses he’s never met.

Love how the horse is paying more and more attention. He seems so train-able. Good on the lady to ask for professional help and advice! Hoping she can pick-up some communication-skills, together with her good-boy 🐴❤️ Now, we can all learn from this. Thank you!! 😄🥳 So much good-will 😊🕊 wishing ya'll the best! 🙏

Kudos to her for continuing trying to get to the bottom of his issue. Many would just pawn a problem horse of this magnitude off on someone else. This is true love of the horse!❤

I really enjoyed watching this horse size you up Ryan. I feel like in that short session he decided you are an interesting and okay (perhaps different?) human. At the end, he was much more focused on you! Very nice.

He’s so happy that you the trainer “gets” his VERY sensitive nature. He would be a fantastic partner for you! He’s gorgeous.

Ryan, I'm not a horse person and I'm not sure how this video found it's way into my YouTube list, but I found it fascinating. Awesome how you look at the psychology of the problem. I'll have to watch some more of your videos now.