I’ve started 3-4 colts a month for 18 years now. I can count on one hand the number of horses that have bucked with me in the saddle. The way you do it will get the job done, but the odds are you will always have to be ready for a rodeo from here on out unless your methods change a little down the line. Good luck to y’all!

In1979 my best friend and I took off to Utah to break wild horses. We made enough money to live and win lots of rodeo tournaments. My friend was better than me. We we're hired to break horses on a farm in Montana that had hundreds of wild horses. After three years I was in charge of getting horses ready to be sold. Unfortunately I broke my hip and didn't tell the owner of this 7600 acre farm. My friend covered for me. Telling the owner I had a sprain knee, and I'd be fine in a couple weeks. We attended a contest in Montana in 1983. We took first place and won 800 bucks. The next week our boss wanted three wild horses ready to be auctioned off in a small town in Montana. One of the stallion's was white and tan, one of a kind but extremely strong and nasty. My friend jumped on but didn't tame him although he did get kicked hard behind his right ear. He was knocked out for several hours. He was riding two days later. Unfortunately the kick did damage that was undetected. After about two months he stole the wild horse from a guy in Utah. The horse was still wild. My friend tamed that horse the next morning in front of several cowboys after 2 minutes of riding. My friend died the next day in a Utah hospital with brain damage from his first ride with the same horse.

Take it from a old man, NO SPURS on colts!!!!!!

That’s right his got spurs on it would have gone a lot easier for him and the horse with no spurs

1:58 haha that was the best line ever, "my grandma could ride that horse while crocheting". The kid did a pretty good job lose the spurs for a while and you did great gave the colt release when he was moving out

Everybody on the fence always knows how to do it better!

Beautiful job guys your son made it look so easy I bought my daughter a young horse when she was 11yrs old I put a saddle on him and it went under his belly I rolled out of the horse pin so fast not to bad for a fat lady 😂then when he took to the saddle my daughter filled this life size ugly plastic doll with sand and we would put the doll on the horse over time and trust my daughter began to ride him and I did too not to bad for us two girls we read books and watch horse videos we had him for 10 years he was the only horse in our town that could be ridden we put a lot of love and time into him not the best way to break a horse we didn't have a cowboy around to help but we did alot of riding with him GOD BLESS COWBOYS THEY ARE SO BRAVE ❤️

I'm no horse trainer, but damn.....every time he bucked was because of those spurs. Then they dug into him.

There are better ways to start them for sure. But that said, this young man has great hands, great body control and amazing balance, not to mention a lot of strength. Very admirable…

i have trained countless horses from the ground up (we raised them and trained them to be barrel horses) yeah horses buck when you ride them the first time but this horse isn't being "sour headed" it's reacting to the spurs, that kid has no idea how to use them correctly and you don't break a horse with spurs! they are an extension of your foot and yes they hurt! and a horse that doesn't know what is going on will buck when they are used on them without knowing what to do. this horse is going to have no sides left on him in 3 months. shame.

Green broke lotsa colts and a few bucked but I never taught one to buck by continued spuring. Most of the time I never wore spurs until I had the ground work the way I wanted. But… to each their own!

I love seeing people who can sit a horse. God Bless you and yours!

Everybody's an expert in the internet I see.

Other then jabbing a unbroken horse with spurs, I thinks he did really well. I like that he was using a hackamore, and also he's a good rider and seemed to know what he was doing👍

Did any one read the description? It's a rodeo bucking horse. They want to use as a working ranch horse. And yes need to loose the spurs.

Incredible seat my dude. Seems he just had some bounces to get out.

hes bucking because the guy is jamming spurs in his side otherwise he would have probably just moved off nicely. yeah they can get lazy

OMG I could not stop laughing loved it u handled it vary well 😀

I like that your starting him in a hackamore. (Leave that mouth alone until he is ready) I tend to get along with em a little better without spurs. We start em snub up out in the desert lead em for a bit, turn em loose and make a circle checking cows.

Missed your ground work

My grandma could ride that horse' while crocheting!

Top em excelente animal

That is a beautiful horse

I died when he said "my grandma could ride that horse

The kid said "he's gonna buck" and he did.

Training a horse and breaking a horse is two different things

Are those stirrups made to look like chain links?

My grandma could ride that horse while crocheting. loll. I miss my dad.

I thought the young un did a durn good job. Most would have bailed off after the 1st crow hop. Don't give him too hard of a time about your gradma ridin that pony. A least he's got a pair, which most of today's don't. He needs to be in some in some ranch rodeos.

Damn I wish I was a colt breakin fool like everybody commenting

Those that say this is a young horse need to either read or reread the description. This was a horse bought a Rodeo Stock Contractor. he is probably a 4 to 6 yr old, and probably quit bucking good enough to be on the road. Different mentality then a young starter colt. Ground work on that horse still wouldn't get the initial buck out of him, just hours of riding and gaining trust. Way this video looks, he is liable be in the pasture in no time. That young man is just 15, he'll learn and develop knowledge as he grows older so no reason to be hard on him at all.

Young man did a great job, and that’s a good looking horse

🤣🤣🤣 "while crocheting" 🤣🤣

Was he posting in a western sattle

hes a good little rider that boy ....sweet job son .......

You can either break easy or break hard mustang 😈🤠

That young man sticks on tighter than a tick ! Good job !

Any reason y'all keep raking him? Cuz that doesn't exactly look like it's helping.

Nothing wrong with spurs. One of the best training tools for a horse. Most dangerous thing when breaking colts is one that won’t move forward. Bet that colt is one cool sucker once that young man got him going.

I grew up rodeo and the old break em’ style cowboys. I think the men like to have them buck. It’s just cruel to jab spurs in their side really. It’ll be good when this mentality no longer exists.

Spurring the horse confused him. Try groundwork.

My gosh kicking him and jabbing him with spurs will not make him learn what he is trying to be taught.

Didn’t realize there were this many horse trainers 😂😂😂

This guys a beast

Spurs are a tool not a weapon that was what was making him buck

“my grandma could drive tht horse”

Wow it is a really good horse

He did SO goood !!!! Like dude I could not have ridden that lol

Everybody is all of a sudden an authority on breaking horses. I wish this kid lived close to me. I'd hire him.

Do you ever think how it would feel if you got stabbed in the sides constantly I don't have any thing against them but think about that

I love horses

Handled that horse like a pro.

If you are trying educate this horse, where is the ground work and why the spurs? They are meant to be used as an aid not a goad. You want him to jump up and root around then keep digging him with the hooks. Would have thought what you really wanted was for him to trust you and to be relaxed, giving you the easiest path to train him. People can say what they like in the comments about armchair experts, but some of us actually do have a fair bit of knowledge. You "break" him how you want to, but guarantee you'll get a more harmonious outcome if he trusts you and you arent taking him up the ribs everytime he looks like dropping his head.

Muito bom !!

Awesome vid. Why everyone needs a round pen before an arena

My boss would yank me off a horse if he saw me do this 😂 I guess some people just don’t like gentle horses

we're the spurs necessary?

Take off the spurs!

Can’t think of a worse way to start a horse out. But shit let them have at it lol

Spurs aren't not the problem. Spurs are only as severe as the cowboy wearing them. However, this is breaking, it's not training. A horse will only finish as well as you start them. You are better off never letting them buck. This horse is obviously not a good natural bucker, but if you keep doing what your doing, he may learn how, and he may learn to get good at it. You never want to climb on board until you've done the ground work and if you have done that well, by the time you climb on, you will have all the control you need to keep them from ever learning to be a good bronc. You got a round corral, use it. do your ground work.....if you want to be a bronc rider, pay your fees and enter up. If you want a cow horse, quit teaching them to be broncs.

Everyone has their opinion on the right & wrong way to break colts. when I was this young man's age, I listened and did what dad said to do. and that's what he is doing. so there's nothing wrong with listening to your old man.

I trained so many horses without spurs haha

Honestly I'm no horse trainer, but its common sense to know that you dont ram him with spurs and try to control his head. You should always ride them bareback for the first time in a rope halter and let them move where they want. That way they're not AFRAID.

Old video I know, but just wanted to point out one thing to folks who may do this. If a horse bucks, the one thing you don’t do (which this kid did great at!) is don’t grab the horn! Yes, there are better ways nowadays to break a horse, but back in the day, this is all a lot of us knew.

Why on earth wear spurs for the first ride!?!?!? Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against them, but, the horse was a bronc first, and cowboys used spurs on him, and the horse looked like he didn't really want to buck, every time he would quit bucking, he was being constantly jabbed in the sides until he was bucking again. That is not how you break a horse!! When he stops bucking, he needs to be rewarded!! NOT jabbed constantly in the sides!!!!

Oh my god people. It’s called riding the buck out of one. That’s why he keeps kicking him. It teaches them that buckings not okay. Wait. I forgot. Everyone here’s a world known horse trainer🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

OMG THE HAT FELL OFF ITS THE END OF THE WOOORRRLLLLD!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Great job .

As you can see by the comments everybody is a horse trainer LOL

Man I wish that when I break colts they bucked like that.... but no they got to try and kiss the moon when they buck.

You all are just excellent trainers. You are doing wonderful things for these horses wow youmight want to start a go fund me or maybe a rescue because youguys just are amazing with your horses.

Can we see grandma ride?❤

Togli SPERONI!!!!! Errato fare guerra con cavallo!!!

How dare you how would you feel being the horse hmmm?

The hat “whatrrrra do

Good riding cowboy

those spurs are to strong so when you keep kickin him with them of coarse he wants to buck you off

i don't think you need to be using spurs and keep hitting him like that, just ride the buck out...

where is at

Well done sitting on that horse ! I wonder how they do today

Yeah I'd be pretty pissed too if I kept getting stuck with spurs

the horse bucked because you stab him all the time! This poor horse looks for release of pressure and you don't give him any direction or release! Learn how horses sees your actions before trying anything! Look at the horses head when he don't bucks, always looking outside the pen, because he wants to go away from this place that he associated with pain and pressure! And I'm pretty sure that horse got a strong bit before this bosal, because when he bucks his mouth is wide open like a horse that tries to avoid the pain caused by the bit.

Why were his feet so far in on the stirrups

Expecting to much on first ride take what u get first ride then praise him for doing good if he does then slowly expect more and add Spurs if needed

The spurring isn't that bad I have seen far worse in the past including spurring with sharp cutting spurs that draw blood everyone is different everyone has a view

leave the spurs in the house until you can learn to work with the horse not against them. it might take a little longer bit you'll have a better horse in the end

Good job

Your pullin on his nose, and spurrin em!? Genius. Where else he gonna go, but up.

O and a another thing to almost every one on here has the more negativity then ever I'm just saying I'm 14 and I love to ride and that may be your opinion but there is no need for this if he wants to ware spurs than let him there are so much people that ware them and if u don't want to or u don't like them then fine I'll admit it I'm not a big fan of spurs but maybe next time keep that to your self and try to complement more then adding negativity

That horse was pretty good until ya JABBED HIM WITH SPURS

Good job young man...it’s hard to find a real old school horse breaker nowadays...that’s why we have so many silly acting unsafe horses nowadays

I Like that horse

I feel really bad for this horse. This shouldn't be allowed

No buck in that horse just a few crow hops nothing serious. he will make a good horse. I never saw a good horse that wont buck a little. ride him with spurs every day. He never raked him nothing wrong with the kids riding or spurring him. enough with the round pen now go to pasture and start on job training for cow work.

Good job.

I like the way that kid rides a colt

Dont force the horse to buck

He is pulling the horses head to much when the horse put its head down

this guy is breaking him the right way! wheather people like it or not

very nice Young man