P1 - Breaking your own horse to harness - retraining a horse that bolted pulling a tyre.

Learn more about our horse training; subscribe to our Carriage Driving Video Library at DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. We do not advise anyone to do this with their horse - we are experienced horse trainers and have trained Romeo to this standard. Attempting to do this at home could result in injury to your horse, yourself and others. This horse had bolted while pulling a tyre at home with his owners. This film shows he has now got his confidence back and will pull a tyre happily while being driven off a headcollar (bitless driving). We talk about things to consider when breaking your horse to harness. In this case, Romeo is going in a four-in-hand to do driving trials competitions; we needed to show his owner that he no longer had any fear of the tyre. It is necessary to put the horse under pressure in similar circumstances to the one that caused him to runaway in case he ever experiences anything like that in the future. We are using a normal padded headcollar (the horse can u