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00:16:47J'ai fait ça et après quelques jours de être là,
00:16:52tu es prêt à aller à la prochaine.
00:16:58Hey, Mary, c'est juste moi.
00:17:00Bien, qu'est-ce que tu fais ?
00:17:03J'ai fait la clinique ici.
00:17:05Ça ne fait pas personne ne te ment.
00:17:09Je vais parler à toi après.
00:17:11All right, Mary, je m'en ai mis.
00:17:13Je fais ça 40 semaines à l'année.
00:17:16Pour le reste de l'année,
00:17:17tu peux te dire où tu vas être sur ce et ce jour.
00:17:19Et je peux te dire exactement où je vais
00:17:21jusqu'au bout de Thanksgiving.
00:17:23Walkertown, North Carolina.
00:17:26Huntsville, Alabama.
00:17:28Limerick, Maine.
00:17:29Bay Harbor, Michigan.
00:17:31Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
00:17:33Longmont, Colorado.
00:17:35Thermopolis, Wyoming.
00:17:37Bend, Oregon.
00:17:38Bozeman, Montana.
00:17:40Libby, Montana.
00:17:43Yeah, there's some loneliness.
00:17:46You know, it's truck stops
00:17:48and driving late at night.
00:17:50Just trying to get to your next spot
00:17:51and you're alone, you know.
00:17:52That's when you really miss your family
00:17:55and you want to be home
00:17:56and you think of what it would be like
00:17:58just walking barefoot across the living room
00:18:00and going to bed.
00:18:02but there's no way that's ever going to be
00:18:04anything other than what it is.
00:18:12Hey, how are you?
00:18:14Great.
00:18:14Great to find you.
00:18:15Can you go?
00:18:18She's going to make me a Manhattan.
00:18:20And I can make more than one
00:18:22if somebody wants one.
00:18:24Here in the back.
00:18:26Were you at that clinic in Ellensburg
00:18:28when it was so cold when Bob Blackwell?
00:18:30Yeah, that was 17 years ago.
00:18:32That was my first clinic with you.
00:18:33And they brought them in,
00:18:35these horses in, in stock trailers.
00:18:37Literally.
00:18:38Whoa.
00:18:38And opened up the door
00:18:39and they went into the round pen.
00:18:40And there was 15 or 17 colts.
00:18:44And he roped every one of them.
00:18:50A mutual friend invited me.
00:18:52And I was pretty skeptical
00:18:53about the clinic and the approach.
00:18:56And I went pretty convinced
00:18:57that I wasn't going to appreciate
00:18:59anything that I saw.
00:19:02And then he started working
00:19:04with all these babies.
00:19:10And I was blown away.
00:19:13I mean, I couldn't believe what I saw.
00:19:15and the rapport that he had with them.
00:19:25You know, it just kind of stopped me in my tracks.
00:19:30My whole life has been encompassed
00:19:33around Arabian and half Arabian show horses
00:19:34from the time I was a little girl.
00:19:36I was showing horses
00:19:38and thinking that everything was cool,
00:19:40the way I was doing things
00:19:41and the way I saw things being done.
00:19:43And I'm proud of a lot of those prizes that I won.
00:19:47But I'm equally ashamed of a lot of them too.
00:19:50Horses are put into forced positions
00:19:53that they're neither mentally
00:19:54or physically prepared to handle.
00:19:56And these practices aren't used nearly as much now
00:19:59as they were years ago.
00:20:01But the horses would be put into hock cobbles
00:20:04that would go from the hocks up through the snaffle
00:20:07and back down so that every time he took a step with his hocks,
00:20:10you know, it'd take a hold of his face
00:20:13to teach him to stay into that real and fixed position.
00:20:17But there's no connection for the horse.
00:20:19There's no understanding of that, except for it hurts.
00:20:23So they're going to stay away from those pressures
00:20:26and learn to infix themselves into those positions
00:20:30because through intimidation.
00:20:33And I just thought that that's the way you did it.
00:20:34And that's what the horses had to do to be show horses.
00:20:38And you don't realize how unjust it is
00:20:40until someone shows you a different path.
00:20:49Let's say the horse needed you to be firm.
00:20:53There's a difference between firm and hard.
00:20:56Let's say I needed to take a hold of the horse with 20 pounds.
00:20:59The way I go about getting to 20 pounds
00:21:04is going to have a lot to do with whether you're successful or not.
00:21:08Hold on to that.
00:21:09I'm going to pull on you some,
00:21:10so don't let me get it away from you.
00:21:12Okay, so close your hand on that or it's going to come away from you.
00:21:15And don't give to me.
00:21:17Let's say I needed to pull on this horse about that hard.
00:21:22The way I took a hold of you wasn't really offensive,
00:21:26wouldn't make you afraid.
00:21:27But let's say I was abrupt and had hands like a butcher,
00:21:30and I took a hold of the horse like that.
00:21:34Now I'm pulling about like what I said.
00:21:36But it's how I got there.
00:21:38Be ready.
00:21:39That's how I got there that could be rude to the horse.
00:21:43Now watch Robert closely.
00:21:47I'm just riding with bad hands.
00:21:49Oh, you braced.
00:21:51I didn't hit you.
00:21:53Why'd you do that?
00:21:55He's protecting himself.
00:21:58Once I've done this a few times with him,
00:22:00he'll embrace all the time.
00:22:01Like that.
00:22:02See, embrace.
00:22:03You can't help yourself.
00:22:04And I'm even telling you you're going to do it,
00:22:05and you still can't help it.
00:22:07But if I took a hold like this,
00:22:09you might give to me, and then I'd give to you.
00:22:11But it's the way I go about it.
00:22:13And whenever you're ready, maybe you'd give to me.
00:22:16See?
00:22:17Otherwise, I just wait here.
00:22:19Nobody's going to get any lunch today.
00:22:21When you started to soften, so did I.
00:22:25And you both feel together.
00:22:26If you were real sensitive to me,
00:22:28when I feel of you here, you'd already be given.
00:22:31See?
00:22:32That means something to my home.
00:22:34That's what a soft feel,
00:22:35that's what I do to get a soft feel right there.
00:22:38And I want you to get at least a mental picture
00:22:40of what a horse operating on a feel is.
00:22:43Where hopefully it looks good to you,
00:22:46that you'll want that,
00:22:47that you'll strive for that.
00:22:50So this is one example of a feel.
00:22:53See?
00:22:54I could even take on this rope right here like this.
00:22:57See?
00:22:58That's operating on a feel.
00:22:59See?
00:23:00I could do this and say get back.
00:23:02See?
00:23:03And I could do this and say get over.
00:23:05Without touching him.
00:23:06Your energy moves the horse.
00:23:09Most people think of a feel as when you touch something
00:23:12or someone and what it feels like to your fingers,
00:23:15but a feel can have a thousand different definitions.
00:23:20Sometimes feel is a mental thing.
00:23:23Sometimes feel can happen clear across the arena.
00:23:26That's what I'm looking for there.
00:23:27Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.
00:23:34It's not always physical.
00:23:36Sometimes it's mental.
00:23:38When you have the physical working for you when you're younger,
00:23:41you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental.
00:23:48But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical,
00:23:52you'd be better off.
00:23:55I'm looking for the horse to learn how to follow a feel.
00:24:00It's supposed to take that much.
00:24:05A little bit more.
00:24:07There.
00:24:08Left.
00:24:09Right.
00:24:10Left.
00:24:12Right.
00:24:13Left.
00:24:15Right.
00:24:15Right.
00:24:16Everything's a dance.
00:24:18Everything you do with a horse is a dance.
00:24:21Now I'll open it up a little bit here.
00:24:26The problem is when a lot of folks can't get a horse to operate on a field,
00:24:30they'll get a little more brighter, get a little more shank on it,
00:24:33and drive a spur through the horse's shoulder,
00:24:35then tie his head down,
00:24:37then get a bicycle chain over his nose.
00:24:39I mean, it doesn't stop.
00:24:40It becomes medieval.
00:24:43Well, I'm going to tip the life up in him here.
00:24:45We're moving on a field.
00:24:47You know, a horse is pretty sensitive.
00:24:49A horse can feel a mosquito land on their butt in the windstorm.
00:24:52Every movement you make on a horse,
00:24:55there is a perfect position of balance
00:24:57that takes no energy from the horse.
00:25:01He doesn't feel like he's pushing you along with him
00:25:04or dragging you along with him.
00:25:21He's built to fit a horse, you know.
00:25:24God had him in mind when he made a cowboy, you know.
00:25:28I've never actually seen him whispered a horse,
00:25:32but I guess if there's a horse whisperer out there, it's Buck Branham,
00:25:36and I don't know, you know.
00:25:44Originally, I got connected to the horse whisperer through Nick Evans,
00:25:48and he said, I'm researching some characters for my book
00:25:53and trying to find a way to bring this character to life.
00:25:56And I was doing a clinic in California,
00:25:59and kind of a hippie-looking guy came up and he said,
00:26:02I'm a movie producer.
00:26:04He said, I was wondering if you could meet with me and Bob.
00:26:07I said, Bob?
00:26:11In my business, artificiality is part of the business.
00:26:15You look for authentic people.
00:26:17And so when I met Buck,
00:26:19my first thought was, well, what the hell is this?
00:26:22Guy walks into an office in Santa Monica.
00:26:24He's got a big hat on.
00:26:25He's got his vest and so forth.
00:26:27He looks like he's got a costume on.
00:26:29I thought, oh, my God, you know, what's...
00:26:30And his compatriot was with him in the same outfit.
00:26:34And I thought, oh, what have I gotten into here?
00:26:37And then the etiquette, the politeness,
00:26:44the humanity that kind of came off real quick,
00:26:48kind of erased that.
00:26:50And then we sat in the office for about an hour and a half
00:26:52and talked about things that were authentic.
00:26:55And so I realized that I was really dealing with
00:26:58what I would call the real deal.
00:26:59No nonsense guy.
00:27:01No nonsense, you know.
00:27:03Whether with the animal or people.
00:27:06He was an advisor that I brought on
00:27:09that slowly worked his way into the core of the filmmaking
00:27:13because he just knew more.
00:27:16So Buck contributed everything.
00:27:17As a model and also as a player, I used him as a double.
00:27:20So he was a huge part of the fabric of the film.
00:27:23And he was able to do things that the hired trainer could not do.
00:27:27And there was a scene that Scarlett was supposed to go into the stall with the horse.
00:27:36And it was her first time being near the horse since the accident.
00:27:40And the action for the horse was, is he was supposed to sort of paw the ground and show a
00:27:46little aggression.
00:27:48And then come to her and respond to her and more or less put his head in her arms.
00:27:55And it was, oh gee, a real touching scene.
00:28:00And they couldn't get the shot because the horse was a trick horse.
00:28:04And they are trained to not take their eyes off the trainer.
00:28:09The horse nuzzled the wood.
00:28:11The horse nuzzled the frame.
00:28:13The horse nuzzled the boots of the trainer but wouldn't nuzzle Scarlett.
00:28:17And the meter was ticking and you know, time is money and all that stuff.
00:28:20So I was going into a panic.
00:28:22They said, what are we going to do?
00:28:24I said, what do you mean, what are you going to do?
00:28:27He said, well, we never got that shot.
00:28:29I said, yeah, we sure spent a long time at it too.
00:28:32He said, yeah, eight hours.
00:28:33You got any ideas?
00:28:35I said, yeah, why don't we use my horse, Pet.
00:28:38And at first everybody said, well, you know, you don't understand, Buck.
00:28:43You know, we use Hollywood trick horses for this because they're performers
00:28:47and they can do things on the mark so we can pull a focus on a certain place.
00:28:50And you just don't understand that.
00:28:52We don't, not downplaying your thing, Buck.
00:28:55But it's like, but Pet, he doesn't know how to work on a mark.
00:28:58He's not an actor.
00:29:00I said, no, he's a horse.
00:29:02I said, what do you have to lose?
00:29:05So I dinked around with my horse and got him where I could lead him by a front foot with
00:29:09a rope on him.
00:29:10And I got him where I could jiggle that rope and he'd paw the ground on the mark.
00:29:22So he came up and he just put his head right in her chest and she wrapped her arms around
00:29:26that horse, laid her head on his forehead, and everybody was crying.
00:29:35God, within 15, 20 minutes, it was done.
00:29:39So he, so Buck played a greater role than a lot of people realize.
00:29:42He contributed everything.
00:29:47There was a humanity and a kind of gentleness of spirit that I adopted for that character because of Buck.
00:29:56When I saw the finished product, he looked good.
00:30:00I told him, there is some potential there, Bob, if this movie thing doesn't work out for you.
00:30:05I think I could probably get you to where you can make a living doing this.
00:30:11For this one you want me to take right here?
00:30:13Yeah.
00:30:15Okay, Riatta.
00:30:17I might have you check on Charles and see if he's eaten.
00:30:20Okay.
00:30:22I've been traveling with Dad during the summers, usually from the end of June until the end of August.
00:30:29It's been two months since I've seen my dad.
00:30:32My dad's on the road nine months out of the year and it's tough, but I'm kind of used to
00:30:37it now.
00:30:37I mean, I've been doing it since I was, well, forever, so.
00:30:43We've got a few sacks of feed to schlep across here.
00:30:49Brietta, you and Nevada need to go wrap up all the sound.
00:30:52Brietta, Nevada's going with me.
00:30:54My partner in crime.
00:30:55I just started traveling with them last year.
00:30:57I spent a month with them.
00:30:59I think we're helpful to a point sometimes maybe we're in the way because he has like a way of
00:31:03doing things, you know?
00:31:04What are you doing?
00:31:05Bringing you breakfast.
00:31:06What is it?
00:31:07Sticky buns.
00:31:08I might just have one.
00:31:09I don't want them.
00:31:11That'll do me.
00:31:12Thanks, mate.
00:31:14So I guess you got a lot of songs transferred for me on my iPod.
00:31:17Traveling with Dad, it can get pretty stressful sometimes just because he is like a travel Nazi.
00:31:24Make sure you plug that little deal.
00:31:26Because he has his own way of how he does everything and we kind of mess up the process sometimes.
00:31:31Oh, Brietta.
00:31:32Oh, you put the top on backwards.
00:31:34But then when it comes to like cleaning pens and saddling his horses and stuff like that, I think he
00:31:39kind of appreciates us.
00:31:41How'd we do?
00:31:42Nasty.
00:31:43Hey, Brietta.
00:31:44Yeah.
00:31:44Bring me back a sack for trash after you feed.
00:31:47Sure.
00:31:48I ride every summer.
00:31:49I usually take one of my horses.
00:31:50Then I might just step up in here and get a dally on and stop my horse.
00:31:54I get a lot.
00:31:55I learn a lot on it.
00:31:57Every clinic that we go to during the summer is different.
00:32:01The horses are different.
00:32:02Different people.
00:32:04There.
00:32:04You follow my field.
00:32:06The horse road can be pretty clicky.
00:32:08Well, we don't go for clicks around here.
00:32:12There are probably some people here that it's just pittance, pocket change for them to come.
00:32:18And some of them save all year long just to be able to go to this clinic.
00:32:23Put on my Madonna microphone.
00:32:26How we fixed here, Maggie, you getting his chin down a little bit.
00:32:29You want to release as quick as you can.
00:32:31He's going to give him a second.
00:32:33There.
00:32:33There.
00:32:34Pet him.
00:32:35That's the way.
00:32:36My daughter, she had a hard time releasing.
00:32:38I'd say, Brietta, your arms.
00:32:40And she don't go like that.
00:32:43Spread your hands a little more.
00:32:45Get them a little lower.
00:32:46There you go.
00:32:49Nice.
00:32:49You want that horse to be an extension of you, but then you don't control your legs.
00:32:54You think you're just going to control this part of the body.
00:32:56This is a body.
00:32:57The whole thing is a body.
00:32:58If all of you didn't have a horse here, and I was trying to talk to you, wouldn't that
00:33:02be weird if you said, hey, I don't have control of my legs.
00:33:05All of a sudden, they just tear off, and you're like, oh, geez.
00:33:08Sorry.
00:33:12Waitin' on the coffee.
00:33:13He's gotta have his coffee.
00:33:15Black.
00:33:16I'm sure that comes as a big surprise.
00:33:18You have the coffee, and then he lets down, and it kind of smooths out.
00:33:25Going to Sheridan, Montana.
00:33:26Sheridan, Montana.
00:33:27We're there, and we're up here.
00:33:30Probably seven hours.
00:33:32Not too long.
00:33:40Yeah, it's a great bunch of folks at this clinic.
00:33:43Good to see you.
00:33:44Welcome to Montana.
00:33:46A lot of them I've known since I was a kid.
00:33:48Some of them I went to school with.
00:33:50Some of them I went to school with their parents.
00:33:53It's like, it's coming home for me here.
00:33:56It's gonna be a busy week, because Mom's just gonna be in Sheridan.
00:34:01Hi.
00:34:03How are ya?
00:34:04I'm good.
00:34:05How are ya?
00:34:07I haven't seen Mary for a couple of months.
00:34:09Hi, Dally.
00:34:10Hi, buddy.
00:34:11So, it's been an awful long run.
00:34:13Mary, she doesn't like to travel as much, but I'd sure like her to go with me a little bit
00:34:18more,
00:34:18and she may go with me a little bit more once Riatta goes off to college.
00:34:22So, this is Twyla.
00:34:23Rudy.
00:34:24This is Dally.
00:34:25Hey, Rudy.
00:34:26Rudy's grown a little bit since I left.
00:34:30I don't know how many dogs you need before you have enough dogs.
00:34:35They work their way up the food chain past me, but my wife loves them and I love my wife,
00:34:42so if it makes her happy, it makes me happy.
00:34:48I actually do like traveling on the road.
00:34:50It's fun.
00:34:51It's really fun.
00:34:52I mean, you get to meet a lot of different people and see a lot of different beautiful
00:34:57places like this place.
00:34:58It's amazing.
00:35:00But, I like staying home too, though.
00:35:02Okay.
00:35:03Are there any of you that have any real problems with them that you'd like to kind of mention
00:35:07that you're...
00:35:07He runs me over.
00:35:08He runs you over?
00:35:10Mm-hmm.
00:35:11Okay, lovely.
00:35:12Well, maybe, like, they're not trying to be pushy.
00:35:15They might be sort of crowding you just a little bit because they still might be scared.
00:35:19You kind of think that maybe if they get real close to you, they'll get some comfort.
00:35:24And the big thing, you guys, is don't be overly critical of them.
00:35:30Because they're just babies.
00:35:32If he feels like you're angry at him at all, he will shut down.
00:35:39I don't know where Buck draws his real personal strength from because he's lived through a lot.
00:35:46I mean, he came out of such dire straits and, you know, was virtually, I think, plucked from his home
00:35:53in the middle of the night sort of a thing.
00:35:55It's a real hard story to tell because, you know, you see him now and, you know, I don't even
00:36:05think about that.
00:36:08The place was real hard on those boys.
00:36:11You knew there was something wrong there maybe, but you weren't for sure what.
00:36:15You know, he kept it hid pretty well, I guess, until the point when Coach Cleverly, you know, I've seen
00:36:30his back.
00:36:37That's a hard story to think about.
00:36:41Bob Cleverly was a typical football coach that you loved but feared too, you know.
00:36:47And he'd actually made Buck shower in P.E.
00:36:52And when he didn't want to shower, you know, and he told him to, you know, get undressed and get
00:36:58in the shower.
00:36:59And, you know, as soon as Buck started taking his shirt off, he's seen the wet marks.
00:37:05And the thing of it is, you know, he just basically told him, he said, your dad will never beat
00:37:13you again.
00:37:13I'll make sure of that, you know.
00:37:16And then that's when Johnny France kind of started the ball rolling to get Buck and Smokey to a safe
00:37:23place.
00:37:24I was present when the boys were forced to disrobe and on their legs and their little buttocks were these
00:37:35big foot marks where their dad had beat them.
00:37:42When I looked at these little boys, I said, no, we'll have none of that.
00:37:50I took them to the Shirley's.
00:37:55They were two frightened little boys, but it wasn't too long before the two boys were just, they just turned
00:38:05into Shirley's.
00:38:07My mom had just died.
00:38:11And she was very loving, wasn't she?
00:38:14She was a very loving lady.
00:38:18So, she became my new mom, and boy, it was something I really needed.
00:38:25Sleep good?
00:38:26I did.
00:38:27They have a wonderful relationship, and she's a guiding force.
00:38:32God bless and watch over you.
00:38:34There's no sense that, okay, you're raised, you're gone.
00:38:37I mean, she's their mother.
00:38:38She's truly their mother.
00:38:39And I think Betsy raised something like 23 foster sons.
00:38:44I mean, all boys.
00:38:45All boys.
00:38:47When our kids were little, it was like a zoo, and it was every man for himself and survival of
00:38:56the fittest.
00:38:58My motto that's stood me in good stead is, blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out
00:39:07of sheep.
00:39:17My foster dad taught me how to shoe horses.
00:39:20I was 12 years old.
00:39:22When I first went to live with him, he told me, kid, you might not ever amount to much, but
00:39:31you better learn how to ride a colt and shoe a horse.
00:39:34And then you'll always be able to eat, even if you can't get much of a job, you'll always be
00:39:39able to eat.
00:39:41So he taught me how to shoe a horse over a period of time.
00:39:48There were so many things that I learned while I was with my foster parents.
00:39:54When I first got dropped off at the Shirley Ranch, I was so terrified of men.
00:40:00And my foster dad-to-be, he pulled in in the truck, and, gee, he was tall, 6'4", just
00:40:06looked like he was made out of rawhide and barbed wire.
00:40:09And he walked right up to me, and he said, you must be Buck.
00:40:12And I shook his hand, but I couldn't even speak.
00:40:16It's real. You can be so scared that you can't say anything. No words come out.
00:40:20I just sat there.
00:40:22And my little knees were just about knocking together.
00:40:25The guy's a little guy.
00:40:28And then he spun around, walked back to the truck, and opened the door.
00:40:33And my heart just stopped.
00:40:35Because it's almost like a cult that's had some trouble.
00:40:41You don't have to do too much to make them suspicious.
00:40:45Just even move in a little bit of a way that they don't understand or can't comprehend.
00:40:51And that quick, they think they need to save themselves.
00:40:57So when he went back to that truck and opened the door, I didn't know what to do.
00:41:03and scared me to death.
00:41:07He came back and he threw me a pair of buckskin gloves.
00:41:12And he said, here, you're going to need them.
00:41:18And gee, they were just beautiful, and they fit me perfect.
00:41:23I was so proud of them.
00:41:28And he looked over at the ranch truck and he said, get in.
00:41:34So we got in and he always had fencing tools in the truck.
00:41:39So we took off and we built fence all afternoon.
00:41:42Pounding steel posts in the rocks and pulling wire.
00:41:46But I wouldn't wear those gloves.
00:41:49There was just that token act of kindness just giving me something like that.
00:41:56Oh gee, it meant so much.
00:41:57I didn't want to get them all tore up.
00:42:00So I kept them in my pocket and I just worked through the barbed wire with my bare hands.
00:42:05And he realized that I didn't need someone to just pity me for what I'd been through.
00:42:10He knew I just needed something to do.
00:42:12I needed a job to do.
00:42:14And that's when things started to head in the right direction for me.
00:42:19So I learned that about the horses years later.
00:42:21I thought, oh yeah.
00:42:25That's kind of what Forrest did with me, come to think of it.
00:42:35Do you see the expression on that horse?
00:42:39It moves but it's crabby, flagging the tail.
00:42:42It's annoyed.
00:42:44It's like asking your kid to go take the garbage out.
00:42:47They take the garbage out but they flip me the bird on the way out of the room.
00:42:51It's without respect.
00:42:53And respect isn't fear.
00:42:55No.
00:42:56It's acceptance.
00:42:57He bucks whenever I saddle him.
00:43:00Not when I saddle him but when I get him to go through transitions.
00:43:03I've never started a cold ever in my life.
00:43:06I've always been around really well broke ones.
00:43:08So this is my first shot at it.
00:43:12And he's got a little bit of buck in him.
00:43:14So you must be Bill.
00:43:16That's why I asked Bill Seaton to ride him.
00:43:19Because Chief needs a confident rider for that first ride.
00:43:23I bought Chief about a year and a half ago.
00:43:25He was one.
00:43:26He had never had any human contact.
00:43:28Born out in the field.
00:43:30Wasn't touched.
00:43:31Handled nothing.
00:43:34It's just a rodeo and disaster waiting to happen.
00:43:39It's not his fault.
00:43:40He's like a kid that just didn't have any good parenting.
00:43:43He just doesn't know what's to be expected of him.
00:43:45I want to check your horse out.
00:43:47If you're going to do anything shocking, I'd rather you did the shocking stuff right here than when you're on
00:43:51their back.
00:43:55Right here, step over.
00:43:57He said, well I prefer you beg me.
00:44:01Not a chance.
00:44:03There's the good deal offered.
00:44:05There's not so good a deal.
00:44:08That's the thing with a horse.
00:44:10You can't just love on him and buy lots of carrots.
00:44:13Bribery doesn't work with horses.
00:44:15No different than trying to bribe a kid.
00:44:18And all it does is make a contemptuous, spoiled horse.
00:44:22But you know, I'm afraid of you.
00:44:26You can be strict, but you don't need to be unfair.
00:44:29And like I say, it's not personal.
00:44:30I don't feel any different about him than I do my own horse I just stepped off.
00:44:35We're not mad at you.
00:44:37One of the biggest challenges of a horseman is to be able to control your emotions.
00:44:42Because a person might be quick to get all mad.
00:44:45There you go.
00:44:46That's better.
00:44:47Let's go this way.
00:44:49I said that way.
00:44:51You allow a horse to make mistakes.
00:44:53The horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human.
00:44:56But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he
00:45:01does.
00:45:01Sometimes I'll just move this flag around, and I don't want him to be afraid of it.
00:45:07I'm saying, just live with that.
00:45:11See?
00:45:11Now we'll start again.
00:45:16There's a change.
00:45:21Attaboy.
00:45:28Buck says when you start handling horses, your own personal issues start coming out.
00:45:34And I was so anxious to see the saddle on chief.
00:45:36I rushed him to it.
00:45:37And now I've built, I feel like I've built this fear and this insecurity in him.
00:45:43But see, I'm an insecure person.
00:45:45And so, they, horses, they mirror you.
00:45:48They can't lie.
00:45:49There.
00:45:50Good boy.
00:45:52Horsemanship, fine horsemanship, becomes a way of life.
00:45:55It's not about controlling the horses.
00:45:57It becomes how you treat your spouse.
00:46:02How you treat strangers.
00:46:05Will you give people a chance?
00:46:07Just like you give the horses a chance?
00:46:09It becomes how you discipline your children.
00:46:11You know, you can discipline and discourage.
00:46:14Or you can discipline and encourage.
00:46:16You can say, I see you tried that.
00:46:18What, what do you think you should try instead?
00:46:20Tentative, but he tried.
00:46:23And I'd pet him with this.
00:46:25You can just leave him be for a little while.
00:46:27Just kind of hang with him and let that soak in.
00:46:29That's a more building sort of approach.
00:46:32Than, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong.
00:46:34All right, it's time.
00:46:36Go on out that end.
00:46:37Go into the ground trail.
00:46:38We're going to go for a little ride here.
00:46:43How you getting along, Bill?
00:46:45Great.
00:46:46Pretty good.
00:46:48Sure does, doesn't it?
00:46:50See if he can get on low.
00:46:53Good.
00:46:54Well done.
00:46:55Coming through.
00:46:56There you go.
00:46:58Way to go.
00:46:59That should have felt pretty good to you, Bill.
00:47:01It did.
00:47:02That kind of where you end up your riding on the horse
00:47:05is so important, you guys.
00:47:06It's a little bit like when you guys were younger
00:47:09and you were dating.
00:47:10That last two minutes of the date
00:47:12can be a real deal breaker.
00:47:14But for these horses, it's the same thing.
00:47:16You know, you've got to quit on a good note.
00:47:19That was a good day.
00:47:21All right, I'll see you guys tomorrow.
00:47:22All right.
00:47:25Good for you, Mary.
00:47:27And peach cobbler.
00:47:28Which could you like?
00:47:28I'm calling for a raspberry now.
00:47:30Oh, that one.
00:47:32Hey, Buck, why don't you do some rope tricks?
00:47:48This is kind of a tricky one here.
00:48:01This is the move I used to always do for Mary
00:48:03when I was trying to trap her.
00:48:20He was just a very ordinary boy.
00:48:24Didn't show signs of early genius.
00:48:28Thanks, Mom.
00:48:32There was one point he thought maybe his trick roping
00:48:36would be his avenue to success.
00:48:39But when he first saw Ray Hunt doing his thing,
00:48:44he was so fascinated.
00:48:46He focused on that.
00:48:59Pretty much anybody that's been involved in the horse world
00:49:02knows Ray Hunt.
00:49:04And Ray brought this style of horsemanship to the world.
00:49:07And Tom Dorrance is sort of the godfather of all of this.
00:49:11Tom Dorrance taught Ray Hunt.
00:49:13Ray Hunt taught Buck Braneman.
00:49:15That's kind of the lineage, as it were.
00:49:18I met Ray right after I got out of high school.
00:49:21One of my teachers told me about this guy
00:49:23that could start a horse and get on him in just a few minutes
00:49:26and ride him around with an old bridle on.
00:49:29And I thought, right.
00:49:31I'd grown up on a ranch.
00:49:32I was pretty punchy.
00:49:34Rode a lot of colts.
00:49:36Pretty fair bronc rider for a kid.
00:49:38I thought, yeah, another song and dance man,
00:49:41some horse show dude.
00:49:43I had an opportunity to go get this cowboy job
00:49:46at a place called Madison River Cattle Company.
00:49:48They said, well, in order for you to get hired,
00:49:51you're going to have to go talk to the manager,
00:49:52and he's at a Ray Hunt clinic.
00:49:53And I thought, oh, great.
00:49:55Here's this Ray Hunt guy again.
00:49:57So I go into the fairgrounds.
00:50:00Sat about as far away as I could
00:50:01so that I could show that I was not interested in this.
00:50:05Then in come Ray Hunt.
00:50:07I saw him do more things with a horse in a couple of minutes
00:50:10than I'd ever figured anybody could do with a horse.
00:50:15He worked with a colt that was pretty touchy,
00:50:19and I'd been around enough to know what a touchy horse looked like.
00:50:33You could tell the horse truly understood what he was expecting of her.
00:50:38He could take those feet anywhere he wanted.
00:50:40They were his feet.
00:50:42It was just an extension of him.
00:50:46It was like a beautiful dance.
00:50:49I took right to it as soon as I saw it.
00:50:51I thought, I don't even know what it is,
00:50:53but whatever it is, I need this.
00:51:00So that was the beginning for me.
00:51:01I went to Ray's clinics, if not every week, every other week.
00:51:05For the next four or five years,
00:51:07I was right down in the arena hanging over the round crowd
00:51:10watching this guy.
00:51:11He'd lift a rein or move a foot.
00:51:13I might not have known all what he was doing,
00:51:15but I was seeing it.
00:51:17We got to be very close,
00:51:19and even though he said it wasn't that important
00:51:23that I pleased him or that people pleased him,
00:51:31I looked for his approval,
00:51:33you know, the same way you would a father figure.
00:51:37And later on, when Ray passed away,
00:51:41I shed way more tears for him than I ever did my dad.
00:51:45Now, you guys don't have a ride like Ray Hunt or Tom Doris,
00:51:48but that's a choice I made.
00:51:50The first clinic I ever did,
00:51:52probably wasn't a real effective teacher.
00:51:54I was a pretty decent hand by then.
00:51:56I could get a little bit of stuff done with a horse.
00:52:00But I'm sure I just sounded like I was parroting Ray Hunt.
00:52:03and I didn't have anything original of my own to really talk about.
00:52:09And I was so introverted at the time, and I felt so uncomfortable.
00:52:14I committed right then that I was going to do enough little local clinics to conquer that.
00:52:20Buck has worked so hard to overcome his shyness.
00:52:24The clinics were so small when he first started,
00:52:26he would offer to haul the horses for free just to get them to go to his clinic.
00:52:30And he couldn't have eye contact with you.
00:52:33I mean, he was very shy.
00:52:35And to see him work that hard to overcome that,
00:52:39and I think it amazes him to this day that people want to even listen to what he has to
00:52:43say.
00:52:44Ray used to say that he thought horsemen were boring.
00:52:49But an average person can be extraordinary at this.
00:52:52But if you don't have any guts, if you don't have any try,
00:52:58you'd be damn lucky to be ordinary.
00:53:11You're going to find out what it's like to actually use a horse,
00:53:15and how nice they can be when they get used.
00:53:18To work a horse properly on a cow, that's the coolest feeling there is.
00:53:25Let the games begin.
00:53:31I want you to be able to learn things and do things in real life if you were on a
00:53:36ranch,
00:53:36where you had a job to do.
00:53:41And it's one turn and then a race.
00:53:44One turn and then a race.
00:53:46Give him a job.
00:53:47Figure out how to build on the horse's pride.
00:53:50Make him feel good about himself.
00:53:52And I wasn't just talking about the horse.
00:54:15There's nothing more fun than chasing cows at top speed and just trying to react.
00:54:20That's crazy fun.
00:54:21But that's not really what you're supposed to do.
00:54:23So it's this constant battle to bring it back to some place that's controlled.
00:54:28Stop.
00:54:29So you turn without stopping.
00:54:31You know, that's the other half of why this is a really interesting thing.
00:54:34Because it carries over into every other aspect of your life.
00:54:37And I think it's made me a more resourceful and balanced human being.
00:54:42On top of just less likely to get killed on a horse.
00:54:46I love working cattle with my dressage horses.
00:54:50I think it's fabulous for them because dressage is a sport where there are really fine ballet-type movements that
00:54:58you're asking the horse to do.
00:55:00It gives meaning and purpose to the dressage work.
00:55:03And then when you take that purpose back into the dressage ring, the horse says, I'm practicing working cows.
00:55:11And it makes sense to the horse.
00:55:13And then he will do it with a greater joy.
00:55:15Because it has meaning to him.
00:55:17It's not simply an exercise.
00:55:18And I think the dressage work gives the cow horse skills that even cowboys could use.
00:55:27There you go.
00:55:28Horses get discouraged by riders who shut the doors.
00:55:31And Buck's really good at opening doors.
00:55:33And you get to artwork or anything else that you do, you start to look at it for the open
00:55:38doors.
00:55:39And then you learn how to walk through those.
00:55:41You guys want to throw a few heel shots?
00:55:57I knew that Buck was really a special guy.
00:56:00And because of his background, which I learned about, and the abuse that he had suffered as a kid,
00:56:06it was even more impressive that he could come through that abuse and rather than repeating it,
00:56:10that he went the other way and decided, I'm not going to have that in my life.
00:56:14Bill, I'll start with you first. What's your stage name?
00:56:17Smokey Branham.
00:56:17Smokey Branham.
00:56:19And how about you, Dan? What's your stage name?
00:56:21They call me Buckshot, and I'm seven years old.
00:56:24Well, who taught you to perform?
00:56:25Our father did.
00:56:27And that's Ace Branham.
00:56:28Yes.
00:56:29Did he ever do this type of thing?
00:56:30Was he, did he ever do this type of thing?
00:56:32The way my dad treated me when I was little, the way he approached us as kids.
00:56:38We've arranged a short demonstration.
00:56:40Right, fellas?
00:56:40I wouldn't attribute any of my positive virtues to my dad in any way whatsoever.
00:56:48I know you're not supposed to hate anybody, but the hurt that he caused me, I never really got over
00:56:53it.
00:56:56So, I live in the moment. I like to live in the moment. You worry about yesterday or last week
00:57:03or 20 years ago, it's not going to work out too good for you.
00:57:08You can't live in two places at once.
00:57:11I mean, you never forget, but you don't have to keep living in the past.
00:57:15I mean, there's a whole bunch of things I learned from all the dark stuff that happened to me.
00:57:20There's a hell of a lot of things I learned.
00:57:21I mean, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anybody, but it made me what I am.
00:57:30That got a little warm there for a while today, didn't it?
00:57:33Thank goodness my daughter, she's never gone through anything like that.
00:57:37And now she's almost grown up, so you can just saddle them inside the round crow.
00:57:47I think if a kid is living in an environment like I was when I was little, sometimes the way
00:57:52you protect yourself is you just really don't communicate with anybody and you try your best not to be noticed.
00:57:58And you just sort of withdraw, and you'll see a horse sometimes that they've been mashed on by somebody into
00:58:05where you just look in their eyes and they look like they're dead.
00:58:09Yet that's the time when you try to encourage your kid to be outgoing and gregarious and be able to
00:58:15talk to not only other kids, but adults.
00:58:17And just see if you can loaf him right out of his tracks.
00:58:19Because that's what you might have to do if you're going to jump out of your tracks on a cow
00:58:24or something.
00:58:24You know what I mean?
00:58:26There.
00:58:29He got it.
00:58:30He kind of got it done in spite of you, didn't he?
00:58:33Oh, dang it.
00:58:36Make a cowgirl out of you?
00:58:38Yeah.
00:58:38You're only doing this so you can laugh.
00:58:42Riata and I are an awful lot alike.
00:58:45Thank goodness she kind of has her mother's looks.
00:58:48Mentally, she's a lot like I am.
00:58:50You know, Mary will say, sometimes in frustration, she's just like you.
00:58:56And I think, what's the downside to that?
00:59:02But she may not be seeing it just that way at the time.
00:59:06And I look at her, the way she's developed, and I think, I probably could have been that way when
00:59:12I was her age.
00:59:13That was in there all the while.
00:59:15Do it again.
00:59:16There.
00:59:17That was a little better.
00:59:19Yeah, I could feel it.
00:59:20Even I would think it was in there.
00:59:35Either before you get settled, or when you get settled.
00:59:38You signed these books last year and I need a translation in Spanish or Latin.
00:59:43Latin.
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01:04:39C'est bon, c'est bon, c'est bon.
01:05:09Il faut qu'il ne soit pas de bonhomme.
01:05:10Il faut qu'il ne soit pas de bonhomme.
01:05:12C'est le plus grand chose.
01:05:15Il a mis à la même chose que quelqu'un a été déroulé.
01:05:18Il a mis à la place de l'horsion
01:05:19parce que si quelqu'un s'est passé,
01:05:21il aurait été déroulé.
01:05:24Une fois, des gens ont été déroulés.
01:05:26Et je suis venu à l'intérieur de 12 mètres
01:05:28dans ce carton,
01:05:29pensant que ça va faire de l'horsion.
01:05:31Il a mis à la fin,
01:05:33il a mis à l'horsion,
01:05:34a mis à l'horsion,
01:05:34et il a mis à l'horsion et donc
01:05:35il a mis à l'horsion et puis
01:05:38lui il a mis à l'horsion.
01:05:41Pellé de me05ni !
01:05:42Je suis venu au sein d'horsion
01:05:43et le mèche.
01:05:44Je vais faire un peu de voyage avec toi.
01:05:52Nous allons le stopper.
01:05:55Leヤis.
01:05:57Il est une bonne fille.
01:05:59Il est très y discipline.
01:06:00Il faut en lui.
01:06:00Une saison d'un.
01:06:00Il est bon, il faut qu'il y ait de l'air comme il est grand-mau-sauce.
01:06:08Je vais prendre le rope pour que ce n'est pas agréable.
01:06:11Vous pouvez l'air si vous voulez, à l'aise.
01:06:14Petit.
01:06:15Il faut qu'il y ait de l'air comme vous êtes totalement en l'amour.
01:06:20Il y a une.
01:06:22Ok, on va encore.
01:06:26Oui, c'est bon, on va, on va.
01:06:30C'est parti !
01:06:58At this point, Dan is the only one permitted to lead this horse anywhere.
01:07:03And then, later on, maybe a little short evening session,
01:07:08you can work him on the end of your lead rope in here,
01:07:10but it's just you and him by yourself.
01:07:15I was really embarrassed because he said nobody should have a stud horse,
01:07:19and I'm thinking, God, if he only knew I had a whole pasture full at home that I have,
01:07:23and then he said not letting him get his head over so he can bite.
01:07:28Well, it's healed up pretty well, but I'm going to have that the rest of my life.
01:07:31Yeah.
01:07:39You know, I have thousands of horses under my belt and lots of experience.
01:07:43No, no.
01:07:44And hell, the safest place around this son of a bitch is on him.
01:07:48Right.
01:07:48You felt fine when you were on him.
01:07:55But around him on the ground, he's treacherous because of what he's, you know, gotten to be.
01:08:03And he could hurt Dan or me or you or anybody else just in being spoiled,
01:08:08and he doesn't want to be that way.
01:08:12But he doesn't know any other way to be.
01:08:16He's as close to having been turned into a predator as you're going to find.
01:08:24Because he's, he's been wrecked.
01:08:29I'd want to give the older horses a chance to get him some manners.
01:08:32He's run with some studs, and they take him.
01:08:35You're nuts for having that many studs running together, lady.
01:08:38I'm telling you that.
01:08:38Most people don't need studs, and for God's sake, they don't need 18 of them.
01:08:43I don't know what you're trying to prove.
01:08:44And if you've got a lot going on in your life,
01:08:46probably a lot of it's a lot bigger story than this horse.
01:08:52You ought to be a SEAL team member or something, as much risk as you like to take.
01:08:57Why don't you learn how to enjoy your life?
01:09:00Life's too damn short.
01:09:02This horse tells me quite a bit about you.
01:09:04So, this is just an amplified situation of what is.
01:09:10Maybe there's, maybe there's some things for you to learn about you.
01:09:14That maybe the horses is going to be the only damn way you're going to learn it.
01:09:18Because you might not listen to somebody else.
01:09:20Well, that's all right.
01:09:22Sometimes I don't either, and I should.
01:09:24Ask my wife.
01:09:27I love the horses, but I have a responsibility to my fellow human, too.
01:09:31You know, if I think maybe you might do something to get yourself hurt,
01:09:34and you don't even see it coming.
01:09:36If I see it coming, I, you know, I have a moral obligation to say,
01:09:40you're in big trouble here.
01:09:42Yeah.
01:09:44Sound fair?
01:09:46Okay.
01:09:48He's right.
01:09:48I mean, he's right.
01:09:51I, you know, he's right.
01:09:55And I'm not, it's not just the worst.
01:09:57He's right about my life.
01:10:09So, Dan, if you feel safer, just rope him.
01:10:12You rope him.
01:10:13You need to get my horse kind of warmed up a little bit.
01:10:18I'm not.
01:10:20I'm not.
01:10:21I'm not.
01:10:22I'm not.
01:10:24I'm not.
01:10:24I'm not.
01:10:26I'm not.
01:10:27I'm not.
01:10:28I'm not.
01:10:28I'm not.
01:10:29I'm not.
01:10:37C'est parti.
01:11:02C'est parti.
01:11:29C'est parti.
01:11:30I'm sorry.
01:11:31C'est parti.
01:11:33He needs sutures.
01:11:34It's a huge hole.
01:11:35That's pretty bad and you always carry something with you just in case.
01:11:39I'm gonna have to put him down.
01:11:44Non, non.
01:11:45Non, non.
01:11:46Non, non, non.
01:11:47Oh, regarde ce qu'il fait dans ma tête.
01:11:49Oh, il a dit tu.
01:11:51Il a dit tu.
01:11:52Il a dit tu ?
01:11:53Il a dit tu.
01:11:55Ok, tu as-tu dans ma mère.
01:11:58C'est parce que je suis en train de vous pour faire des stitches.
01:12:00C'est deep.
01:12:01Il a fait des fesses.
01:12:03Il a fait des fesses.
01:12:05Mr. Branaman, vous avez besoin de parler un peu de sens à Dan.
01:12:08Et je pensez que vous êtes le même qui peut faire des fesses.
01:12:10C'est le dernier moment que je suis venu de voir ça.
01:12:13C'est le dernier moment que je suis venu à l'intérieur de la salle.
01:12:14Je ne vois pas que il me défilé.
01:12:17Il a fait des fesses et me défilé.
01:12:18Il a fait des fesses.
01:12:19C'est quoi que cette fois-ci ?
01:12:26Je ne vais pas faire de ça.
01:12:29Je ne vais pas faire de ça.
01:12:31Je ne lui ai pas à quelqu'un qui va à un peu et pour les deux et quatre.
01:12:33C'est pas une chose que tu faites.
01:12:34Il est dangereux.
01:12:35Je vais faire de ça.
01:12:36et c'est le plus humain pour faire pour lui.
01:12:39D'ailleurs, je vais vous faire de là.
01:12:46Je vais vous faire de là.
01:12:46Dan !
01:12:49Dan, Dan, Dan !
01:12:51Non ne se passe pas à lui.
01:12:52Il est de l'autre côté de lui.
01:12:54Il est de l'autre côté de lui.
01:12:55Il est de l'autre côté de lui.
01:13:06Sous-titres par Jérémy Camille.
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01:13:16C'est parti.
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01:13:38C'mon Cal, c'mon, hup, just sit still, just wait, c'mon Cal, c'mon Cal, c'mon, hup, sit still, just sit still,
01:13:56just sit still, just sit still, just don't do anything.
01:14:06In the middle, c'mon, hup, sit still, just sit still, just sit still.
01:14:33I'll check it out, alright.
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