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[intro music]
>> Brad Anderson: There is something about working with a horse that literally has been
wild since the day it was born. I mean not exposed to human hands at all, or evan been
around humans. There is something about working with them and developing the trust and leadership
that once you win that over and it can be done it can be done highly successfully. Something
about it they have sense of loyalty to you thats unequalled in any other breed. First
getting them started in the spring I give them a little bit of leeway because they're
kind of hard wired when you think about it when a rider or a saddle is on their back
its specifically in the wild where a cougar would land and so they're kind of hard wired
to kind of get that off. Thats just part of something they just need to work through,
we certainly don't let those habits build up but we give them a little bit a chance
to kind of shake it off and work through it. Ok lets try this.
[horse running]
>> Brad Anderson: There was a school of training at one time that fear, pain, intimidation
were used to just beat a horse into submission. I don't think the really wise trainers ever
went that way. What I get joy of showing is actually like our little palomino Tamber we
just put a little hay string around her nose. Once you can make it kind of a game and fun
for them subtlety and real soft moves can get horse to do all sorts of exciting things.
The Bureau of Land Management and the Mustang Heritage Foundation is putting together and
auction adoption. To entice both horse lovers and full time trainers like myself there is
a prize as high as two hundred thousand dollars for the winner. We get to get these horses
as gentle and as skilled as possible and we meet for what kinda would be considered the
Olympics or the Super Bowl of the mustang world in Fort Worth Texas about the middle
of September, and we have a showdown and just introduce this amazing breed and what they
can do to the American public.
>> Aubrey Anderson: So this is my horse Sundance, he is my baby. He likes it when I blow in
his nose. When I first met Sundance he was really scraggly and dirty and you couldn't
get near him he was scary your couldn't feed him you couldn't water him you couldn't go
in the stall with him because he would freak out and try and kick. And so my father-in-law
Brad started to work with Sundance and I came and visited and watched him and he was wrapping
ropes around his leg and Sundance was freaking out and I was petrified. It was just completely
different the experience than what I was expecting. I was dying to get a horse, I wanted a horse
since I was little so he gave me Sundance as a gift. And at first I was a little worried
and hesitant and he started to show me how to build a relationship with Sundance and
how to get him to trust me and how our relationship was based in trust and he became the sweetest
most mild tempered dream come true for me and I will always be great full to my father-in-law
for that for giving me my dream.
>> Brad Anderson: From day one when we arrive at the adoption site, that horse that we kinda
look in the eye and looks back at us and says yah I'm the one. From the first few weeks
that are gonna be kind of wild and woolly to the time when we win the trust over and
then we start teaching this horse skills, we are gonna be inviting the people that want
to be part of watching this documentary to go along every step of the way. And the exciting
part is we are all arriving in Texas from the entire county and we are gonna be competing
with one another. It's putting showmanship and entertainment all together and bringing
this highly motivated highly trained horse and making him just excite the crowd and everybody
else watching. To do this we have been able to put together a highly creative talented
professional team and they are gonna see to it that this is gonna be rare treat in entertainment.
>> Jackson Rayne: And then maybe the music picks up and boom it just starts going and
then he just takes of with the horse and then the curtains raised as he is over here then
he takes off with the horse. Building suspense here takes off with the horse as the music
goes then boom there is a quick change at the end and it would just build suspense and
it would be really powerful final change personally.
>> Jared Dalley: And that sounds like where you win the crowd over you know that gets
the audience to respond vissirely and then it's just quickly done. Again we were kind
of shooting for the moon and then figuring out afterwords how to make it work.
>> Brad Anderson: It's my job to get this horse willing to put up with the exciting
things we are gonna ask him to do and it's the creative team to make it just something
that the audience is gonna just be thrilled to watch. Anyone who decides to be a part
of this is in for an amazing journey.
[outro music]