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What I'm doing,
when I tell them "steady"...
so if I let them go here a bit, look.
And I just tell them now
steady, walk.
Let them go again, trot.
Steady. If you listen to the beat; you can see what I'm doing with my fingers, look.
Ok? Stopping them.
There look, can you see? With pieces of rubber in their mouths.
Walk. And they come back to walk.
Just walk.
Now we're marching on, just coming to a junction, just tell them "steady"
steady
taking them up to the white line.
Because they're not stupid; they know that's a junction.
So when you come up here you'll see we're about,
I think its less than a mile
or about a mile from home. They're not sweating
you know or anything, so they're not sweating,
you can see their breath there, not puffing.
So they're not worn out
in a mile. They've walked, they've trotted,
they'll trot fast, they'll trot slow,
and now they're standing. They're standing on a slack rein.
If
I leave that there, and I just tell them stand still,
they don't move. Can you see? Just standing. And we're going to stand here for a minute
until a car comes.
We're going to stand here for a minute until a car comes. Ooh, we've got a dust cart.
The ideal thing. So he's coming up here, and he's going to be turning by the side of us.
We've got a van coming here
in front of us, and a car.
And they've got to stand there til I tell them different.
Stand still. Alright mate?
So there they are.
Another motor car coming here. So what I'm trying to teach them here is it doesn't matter
just because the motor car
has gone, doesn't give them the right
to walk off. They've got to stand still
when they're told. So they've just got pieces
of rubber in their mouths. That's all they've got.
So what I'm trying to say to you, they are now standing at a junction
with traffic coming around them and they're doing their job.
Now my problem is do you
have the ability to drive these horses?
What I'm trying to say to you
I'm not putting you down, don't think that
I'm trying my best here, my level best, to help you.
So when you come at the weekend and you drive these... now we've got 2
this car here,
see where the reins are? They're slack.
There is no control over these horses at all,
only my voice and what I'm telling them to do.
Another motor coming up here now.
And they're just standing there quite doing their job.
Got 2 nice bikes coming here now,
nice fluorescent jackets; they didn't like them at all.
I don't think they're keen of them now, you can
see the way they're looking.
Another one going straight past in front
of them there. But they're not sweating,
they've not been worked to death
so we've got to go now as we're in the way.
Off they go at the walk, nice and slow.
Going to ask them to hold it back now, whoa babies.
Its a
big heavy vehicle this is,
you know, similar to a wedding carriage weight-wise. I've got no brakes on.
Watch the reins, look. Steady my girls, steady.
See the reins slack? They're holding it back, they are doing their job
because I am telling them to. Because I'm asking them to.
See my hands, slack reins, I'm not holding them back.
The breeching's pushing in their ***, pulling the pole chains on the front. But I'm not pulling them back;
the reins are just loose.
So they've been here a fortnight, or will have been, and they're learning the job.
But am I wasting my time? I've got loads of horses to do;
these horses here,
are just doing their job, they're walking uphill.
Just walk.
I'll bring them right over here as they didn't like dustbins.
That's it, there's good girls. Steady.
But what I don't want to happen is you go and mess all the work up that I've done
because you haven't got the experience.
What I do when I break horses, its a partnership
between you and me.
So what I'm saying is,
I do all the horses, break them, show you they're 100%.
Your input is to be able to drive them.
And there's so many people out there that think they're coachmen, or think
you know, they can do this and that; at the end of the day,
they're not coachmen, they're not horsemen.
They'd like to be, but just because you own a horse doesn't make you a horseman.
Just because you've got a coach, doesn't make you a coachman.
Please believe me.
Just walk.
So see us going along there, now we've got to trot on as we've got a way to go
but I've just shown you there coming from my house
if you look at this great big property here
its 9o'clock in the morning
and when you come over you'll see where that is and how far it is.
You can tell by their coats, they're not sweating.
They're not puffing, not belching steam out their nostrils, they're just doing as they're told nicely.
Right girls trot. Steady trot.
Their heads are not straight yet, that's because they're on the wrong side
and they can't get used to it yet you know?
Like that horse wants to be over there.
I can hold them straight but its keeping them straight on the road that's the problem.
If I just say to them, watch my fingers, no brakes. Steady.
Steady.
Look can you see?
Hear the beat slowing right down?
And that's with my fingers. I had some silly *** ask me,
he'd seen me driving 2-handed, so he said
"Can you drive one-handed?"
I'll drive these 30 miles with one hand, its nothing to do with that.
The reason I drive 2-handed is to feel their mouths, get them right, get them set where I want them to be.
Get them working together as a pair.