This clip is taken at the greate Ellen Ofstads place in Sweden june 08, during a 5 day clinic.
In this clip the students are training Ellen Ofstads whole horse family, the stallion Fabuloso, the mare Lebrera and the sweetes foal Bravo! The students are taking turns on all the horses. In this clip I`m mainly training the foal. (I am the lady in red ;-)
It may look a bit chaotic, but in IRL it was a calm peace and an greate opportunity for learning....both for those with two and four legs!

From the foals point of view he is getting used to a lot of new "things" in a positiv way! Not only does he learn from his own experience regarding the handling, but also being around while the parents are trained!
When handeling the foal it is important to do the training slow and use a lot of positiv reinforcement/rewards, actually he is also being introduced to clicker training!
The best we can do for this little guy is to take advantage of his curiosity and interest in new items and situations shown to him, and to make all his experiences positive!
He is free to leave us at any time if he wants to, and as you se he sometimes also does.
We try to not force him or to use any strenght at all, if he refuses, do not understand or simply wants to do something different, we allow him to.
Give him a breake and gently ask if he wants to do some more later on.
If he does it is greate, if not thats OK to :-)

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Comment by Lauren Cala on February 18, 2010 at 1:52pm
Aww! So cute.
Comment by Ellen Ofstad on February 17, 2010 at 4:33am
Watching this clip sure bring back memories :)
If some of you think you recognise the horses, it's because these are the horses I have shown in several of the clips I have published here; the foal is Bravo that I have shown many foal training clips with, and the mare and the stallion is in the clip where I let them out together soon after Bravo is born. And Fabuloso, the stallion, is also one of the horses in the long reining film. If you would like to see more of them, just check out my videos.
Ellen

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