60 Minutes Of Expert Horse Training That You Should Not Miss!!
See Kel Jeffrey's Legendary Australian Horse Training Method For New Horses Expertly Coached By Des Kirk - One Of Australia's Greatest Ever Horse Trainers
This is probably the gentlest horse training method you'll ever see - expertly explained so that you can understand and use it straight away!!
Kel Jeffrey was Australia's greatest horse trainer and his art has only ever been approached by the great Australian trainer, J. D. Wilton. The Jeffrey method is the gentlest of methods of horse starting and training developed anywhere and despite the more recent (and some would say, more crowd pleasing methods), has stood the test of time to be recognised as the method by which the results of many others should be judged.
Kel Jeffrey died in the 1954 but always maintained his simple philosophy - 'I talk to the horse and play with it gently. After a while it realises I'm not such a bad guy, and I can do anything with it'.
Kel Jeffrey like a lot of city boys, went to college. In fact he was training to be a lawyer when he was struck down by an illness - and remember in those days antibiotics were a thing of the future! Just like many before him, Kel was sent out to the country air to convalesce and ended up on a property in the outback at Chandlers Peak. Every day Kel watched as the wranglers went out on their daily routine rounding up cattle and every day Kel noticed that one particular horse was always left behind. Curious about this, he eventually asked why and was told that the horse was 'untrainable'.
Kel set out to make friends with this horse and using his own but as yet undeveloped horse sense, a 22 foot long braided rope and working in a small round yard he amazed the wranglers on their return by riding the mare comfortably with no saddle or bridle. Kel was a 'natural' and from then on dropped his ambition for the law and became one of Australia's greatest horse trainers.
His methods are used today by such successful horsemen as Clinton Anderson who freely admits to using some of Kel's methods on every horse he trains!
Des Kirk was a Jeffrey 'disciple' who spent 40 years teaching the Jeffrey method to countless horse lovers around Australia. Des always said that if horse lovers used the Jeffrey method properly then they would never have to resort to hiring breakers or trainers. It could all be done by them alone and after watching this programme you have to admit that he was probably right!! Des died in 1999 but left a legacy of great horse training in this tape and the two books he authored.
This programme covers all these topics in detail using a trainee and an completely unbroken horse under Des's expert direction. It is set on an outback property in Australia and was videotaped 'live': |