Colt Starting
Delve into the subcategory of "Colt Starting" and learn how to lay a strong foundation for your roping prospects. Our videos, guided by top ropers, offer step-by-step guidance on starting young horses, instilling essential skills, and nurturing their potential for future success in team roping. With the Relentless Remuda’s Miles Baker to A&C Racing and Roping’s Trinity Haggard, there’s nowhere better to learn to start rope horses from the ground up.
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Colt-Starting Series: Cutting Out the Nonsense
Do all the good ones have quirks? They don't really HAVE to if you try implementing these fundaments from Miles Baker at an early age.
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Colt-Starting Series: Starting a Head Horse Prospect Out of the Box
Miles Baker is already winning on Blade—a son of Show Me The Buckles—but Roping.com was there when Baker started this colt out of the box. This is the same colt Baker started under saddle for our cameras in 2021. His full series is now available as a playlist on Roping.com.
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Colt-Starting Series: Teaching a Colt Forward Motion
How much forward motion should you put into a colt without discouraging a stop?
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Staying Safe on Day 1 with a Fractious 2-year-old
Professional horse trainer Justin Briggs demos his ground work process for the first saddling of an energetic 2-year-old.
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What You Should Expect From A Colt Starter
What do Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker want colt starters to do with young horses? How much time should a colt starter spend on a young horse? And what basic skills does a colt need?
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Using the Halter and Snaffle Together
Professional trainer Justin Briggs explains his progression of halter to snaffle and how he uses them in tandem to achieve a better feel on his colts.
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Colt-Starting Series: Explaining the First Rides
Using an unbroke 3-year-old Show Me The Buckles colt, Miles Baker explains his early colt-starting program.
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Colt-Starting Series: Hand Use Dos and Don'ts
The way you use your hands in the earliest stages of the training process can make or break your rope horse's responsiveness down he line. In this video from the Relentless Remuda, Miles Baker demonstrates how he uses his hands on a colt that's ready to start out of the box.
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Colt-Starting Series: Saddling Safety
Here's what you need to know about saddling a colt safely.
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Colt-Starting Series: Pen Roping at 120 Days
Pen roping is a critical step in Miles Baker and Trevor Brazile's Relentless Remuda. In this video, Baker explains how he uses pen roping to get a horse broke by giving him a job early on.
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Using Your Hands and Feet Correctly When Riding Colts
Professional horseman Justin Briggs demonstrates the degree to which he uses his hands, feet and spurs in coordination to achieve a broke, balanced horse that responds well to his cues.
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Colt-Starting Series: Shoulder Control
The ability to control a horse's shoulders is critical in any discipline, but it's especially important in head and heel horses who need to react to the cow athletically. In this video, Baker demonstrates the kind of shoulder control he reinforces in his colts and explains how that carries over f...
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Colt-Starting Series: Early Saddling Fundamentals
Relentless Remuda colt starter Miles Baker explains the dos and don'ts of saddling a horse for the first time.
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Colt-Starting Series: Moving a Horse's Hips with a Halter
You can teach a colt to move his hips without ever being in the saddle. Miles Baker shows how he uses a halter and lead rope to move a young horse's feet.
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Colt-Starting Series: Outside Riding 101
How do you control a situation in the pasture on a young horse? And what control should you have before you ever head out of the arena? Miles Baker breaks down how he makes sure to keep his horses in positive situations in the pasture.
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Develop a Relationship with Your Colt
Professional trainer Justin Briggs answers the question of what type of personality he looks for in a prospect and how personality is molded by a thoughtful training approach.
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Colt-Starting Series: Teaching a Colt to Follow Its Nose
How do you teach a colt to follow his nose the right way? Miles Baker talks about setting one up for success.
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Colt-Starting Series: Groundwork in a Sidepull
Miles Baker starts the Relentless Remuda colts in a sidepull rather than a snaffle. Here are the fundamentals of using a sidepull and how it should be adjusted.
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Seventh Ride on a Green 3-year-old
Justin Briggs works a 3-year-old Goodbye Lane with just six rides and shows how switching directions and keeping his colt's attention with the lead rope in his ground work transitions well to these early rides.
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Colt-Starting Series: Progression into the Stop
Miles Baker wants a colt to be "good in the face" before he starts to really ask for a stop. In this video, he demonstrates how he achieves that and how he asks for a whoa in a colt with 45-60 rides.
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Colt-Starting Series: Softness in a Sidepull
What should you expect in the early rides on a colt? Miles Baker explains how he rides in a sidepull and introduces fundamentals in the first few rides.
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Colt-Starting Series: Hand-Use Fundamentals on a Colt
How exactly should you use your hands and feet on a 2-year-old in the early rides? Miles Baker explains how he develops the feel he and Trevor Brazile look for in the Relentless Remuda.
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Building the Foundation for Turns and Stops
Justin Briggs demonstrates how he is building the foundation for turns and stops as he teaches his c