Australian Outback Spectacular trainers offer a behind the scenes look at Equitana

Take a sneak peek into the world of the Australian Outback Spectacular as trainers showcase their craft at Equitana.

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00:00An outback we take as long as it needs, so it may be some horses may make it in a few months,

00:06some horses may take a few years and that totally depends on the individual.

00:10However, our horses only obviously depending on the breed but physically mature at around

00:15three or four years old. So we want to make sure that we don't put too much undue pressure on them

00:19and we want to make sure that they are mentally capable. So building up that horse's confidence

00:25and I always say the same thing is so much easier than breaking it and having to rebuild it because

00:30it takes so much longer to rebuild a horse's confidence than it does to incrementally build

00:36it up. If you reach that threshold of that horse's capability and you push past it,

00:41it's going to take a hell of a lot more time to be able to bring it back to that point

00:46than if you never push past that capability point.

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