I love your view on experience. Anyone doing something for twenty years still has something to learn in their 21st. If they don't know that they aren't going to have the right attitude to learn!

What a lovely trotter happy and confident in your hands

I want my driving experience to make me a better partner for my horse, a better driver, not just a reason to say "I've been doing this for years." I like how this video shows the difference it makes in the horse depending on who is driving and working with the horse.

This video has given me great in sight. I have a lovely four year old friesian that drives lovely but has started spooking and being a handful. Now I realise I need to work on my skills. I'm only a novice driver. Time to get some lessons I think and work on our relationship.

Poor Foggy, no wonder he was confused. There was no communication going on with the owner and Foggy. No wonder he got upset with that last turn - I felt like screaming 'Get off his darn mouth'

Barry, this was like 7 or 8 years ago. Do you remember how things worked out for this horse? I feel so bad for him watching him under his owner's command.

Great common sense advice, as always Barry. Nice pony. I hope he continues to make such positive progress.

I've been around horses all my life and I would dearly love to take lessons with y'all! nobody knows everything and if there were one right way to do things everybody would do it that way.

Having watched the end part now, I'm wondering how the poor pony ended up! The owner didn't appear to have any idea how to drive and wasn't communicating with the pony at all. His reins were like washing lines! To start slapping the pony's rump with them when it was unsure what to do was pure ignorance. An accident waiting to happen, unfortunately. So sad for Foggy. So many decent ponies are ruined by incompetent riders and drivers who think they're horsemen / women :-((

You can sure tell by the horse's ears... when the owner was driving, the birds was constantly flicking his ears back and forth whereas when Barry drove him his ears were pricked forwards mostly. He'd check in with Barry, 'Am I OK Dad?' and the confidence from Barry, 'Yes you are. ' the ears are pricked forwards and he's a happy horse.

This is a perfect example of the type of person who has NO business having a horse. The things both Barry and Melanie repeat over and over in their videos is the fact that it is people who ruin horses. It is unfortunate this man has control over Foggy's life. This man shows the difference between thinking of yourself as an owner (you are my possession like a tractor and I will do what I want with you) versus viewing Foggy as part of a team. This is a great example of being penny wise and pound foolish. If you send a horse to a trainer and at the end of 6 weeks and he says the horse in is not finished, why not stay the extra time. If the trainer says the person who will be driving the horse needs instruction to drive this horse in a way to be confident, safe and happy and that person refuses, shame on this man. How wonderful this is all on video. Perhaps this will shame this man into either doing the right thing or allowing the Hooks to finish Foggy's training and then place him with an experienced driver so he can have a good life. The sad thing is Barry is correct when he says driving and horsemanship standards have slipped and continue to slip. The horse suffers. People want the quick fix, quick training and quick driving/riding lessons to get the ribbon. It also breaks my heart to see it here in the US. It is a fight we will all continue for the horse who has no voice.

foggy was a completely different horse once barry got hold of the reins,nice one barry

I wish you could stop this beautiful pony having to go home with this man. Poor Foggy.

A lesson in humility me thinks! I would love to spend a year learning a fractions of skills you have -

This is EXACTLY why if you're going to do ANYTHING with a horse, whether it's riding, jumping, driving, whatever, learn to do it properly from the start and never assume you "know" what you're doing. A horse that has no confidence and trust in its handler will be skittish, fidgety, and will fight against the reign every single time.

The owner-driver's hands look all over the place....it is inner determination that animals pick up on. Animals will look for the weakness in people and exploit it..and horses are superb at finding out a person's weakness. No shame in having lessons- we never stop learning. Pride is what gets in the way.

The last couple of minutes showed more of the owners inexperience than the horses!

I absolutely love your videos I’ve got to learn how to do this

8:44 I wonder why he starts pulling the right rein suddenly - it looks as though this confuses the pony.

Im starting my cob driving and have never driven in my life , hope I dont ever become ingorant and do silly things. Im only up to walking on the roads in his harness I have a cart but it will be some time before I even think of putting it to him as im a novice at driving im taking things very slow and patient with him. I will give him a good few weeks to look the cart over and all its movements and sounds an smells. I have messaged you and am waiting for a reply but love the way you go about training as I belive punishing a horse is unacceptable and you will lose all the time, let a horse think what you want be clear in what you want and praise for the things you want but praise in a way the horse understands. What you do in months will prob take me a year but im in no rush and want him happy.

I know people who "have been riding horses for years". Four of them - FOUR! - couldn't work out that the pony one of them was leading was bucking under the child on his back because he was an older pony, he was stiff, he wasn't given a chance to stretch out and warm up, and was uncomfortable. Me being a lot younger didn't have the pluck at the time to say anything. Two of those ladies regularly had a school master horse taking the mick with them too. It's easy to see how people ruin good horses.

I want lessons...

Pretty horse. It seems like the horse is not sure with the owner. Muxed signals. I think the owner is wanting to do better or he would not have come to Barry. He had a bad experience with another horse. This one seems to want to please or know what to do. I think the owner and Foggy will work more with Barry now or soon. What happens? Such a strong, beautiful horse.

it always looks so windy and cold out there, you guys must draw the bad luck card for weather where you live. XD horses don't seem to mind though

I got a question. have you orsome one you know ever driven amish teams?

4:20 !!! It is EVERYWHERE with dogs with cats with riding with driving just everywhere. People think just because they did something for years that make it right, but it is not!

Amazing how you can undo 6 weeks hard work in a matter of hour/s think you need to open a b&b and have the owns spend the last few weeks in training aswell why do some people treat the rains like it a skipping rope......... good job you only use rubber bit how they stick to that

No wonder that poor horse was messed up. How to totally confuse a horse in one easy lesson. Do you know what happened to him?

Wow, another hour of that and that horse could be totally confused! Sad.

Lol he showed the guy he didnt know how to drive his own horse even though he'd been "driving for years" lol.

Mmm! I'm no expert but I can see quite a nasty accident happening before too long and the pony could end up getting the blame. A real shame. Hope the owner takes note of what you tell him.

It’s a pity that falla doesn’t now how to drive that horse

I hope the owner took your advice and came to you for lessons. That horse would be ruin in one drive at home. What a shame.

Sad. The horse felt uncertain.

I noticed that this pony tends to nod his head when he is standing for the young lady. Is this because this pony is still a bit fidgety and is trying to get the rains pulled out of her hands or is this something else?

That's why I never let anyone else drive my horse my horse knows who has the rains and I don't want someone else to I doing something wrong and we have to retrain him again people like to ask to borrow my horse and wagon and I always have to tell him no I just don't trust anyone for drive- my animal you heard no saying he's a one dog person oh my horse is that one horse person

All horses are different ,they have different personalities it’s whether you can train one that’s skittish or bad tempered to get it to a drivable standard safely..and if Barry can’t then nobody can .

Ugh....foot on brake...while asking horse to walk. Poor horse. Get off his mouth!!

Just for the algorithms

What a terrible, terrible owner/ driver.He has absolutely no contact with and feeling for his horse through the reigns, just a pair of very stiff hands not following the horses movements at all. "Dancing" reigns like this and held in this way are a clear sign of having absolutely no basic driving skills. Am I rude when I advice him only to drive a car in the future?

Oh my god this guy needs to do his homework he don't understand the horse at all sorry it's true

the owner is to much of a novice for a nice pony like that;

It's a shame that novices aren't prepared to listen to someone with more experience, everything has to be done in a rush. 9 minutes in just made me upset. He'll take him home and what might have been a nice driving pony, will be ruined and fit for nothing.

I've been around horses all my life and I would dearly love to take lessons with y'all! nobody knows everything and if there were one right way to do things everybody would do it that way.