I have a T.B. mare her name is Melody, her reg. name is Lilly Charge North and shes the great grand daughter of Northern Dancer. Shes a bit crazy but shes my baby. I love her to death! lol My best Friend just got a T.B. last saterday but I havn't met her yet. I was wonderin if any of ya'll do Parelli horse training? I love it, it works really well. That horse one of ya'll were talking about might benifit (SP!!!) from Parelli. I'm training my horse Melody to be a show jumper shes doing great. When I got her shed never jumped before but shes a natural! lol last week I lounged her over 3 feet 6 inches! It was awsome!

-Jessica

sorry so long lol

I honestly don't use Parelli. I may come off the wrong way, but this is just my opinion! The Parelli methods are all built around common sense. I have seem some of his work and although I love watching the videos of the horses that are up to the Level 4 training, but I know that I do not need the "tools", books, or DVDs that he sells to tell me how to communicate with my horse and get them to do what I would like.

I do, however, do a lot of ground work with them. I can lunge my horse around me without having a lunge line attached and have him walk,trot,canter, and half, turn, etc without any tools, but my own hands. (Which I did not learn from Parelli). They all sure know how to respect my space! LOL I do believe that ground work is the building blocks to a great riding partner! Mainly, when you have a fresh-OTTB you sure need to drill all that stuff into them for ground manners where not a top priority on the track! LOL

I also do not practice Parelli; however, as a classical dressage enthusiast, I spend much time on ground work based on classical horsemanship/classical dressage, which has been practised for centuries.

Coolness thats fine its up to u what u use. I just thought I'd say that I don't have any "tools" other than my own two hands . so its not like u have to have them to do parelli horse training. ya so anyway i'm just really happy with how far my horse has come scince I started parelli with her.

I'm in NZ and my partner trains racehorses. We have a couple of our own and one broodmare that we bred from as well.
I've been around racehorses either breeding or racing for 17 odd years now

My sister and I just rescued 2 really nice OTTB's and theyare the most polite 6 year olds I have ever been around. They have been of track for 4 months and I have had them 3 days and have already been riding mine. They are forclosing on the owners property so there are dosens of OTTB's that have been rescued that need homes and are going for 200 bucks...they are beautiful muscular and just a delight to handle since they get them used to saddles and more weight before going to the new home. THey will even take payments. to give you an example of what I bought. My horse has Secratariat in his blood, he was bought for $110,000 for racing, his breeding fee was $30,000, he won 9 races and made $37,000...I paid $200 dollars for a 6 year old Grey Gelding with black mane and tail at 17h. My other was bought for 8g's for racing and won 5 races and pocketed 32,000 we paid $200. if intersted they are in Auburn Washington email dean@tbrescue.com or visit tbresuce.com they have some hores listed that are sweet look for a mare named Arizona or a gelding named Indian summer i met both horses and if no one takes them i am thinking of getting them.. they also have tb who is dressage trained for 200

I used to do some retraining of OTTB's I agree with the OP, there are some that I just didn't want to get on, and others...shes right, they ended up being lazy! lol