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See Kel Jeffrey's Horse Training Method For New Horses Expertly Coached By Des Kirk - One Of Australia's Greatest 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 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. We hope to make one of them available soon.
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':
Initial stages - explaining the Jeffrey method
Catching your horse
Proper use of the rope - letting the horse relax
Handling the Horse - The Jeffrey Lunge
Mounting the horse, including the Stallion grip and the 3 weight stages
Close contact handling
Saddling
Bridling
Mouthing
Riding with reins
Riding in the open paddock
Leading
Further training
In all this is 60 minutes of expertly tutored horse training with every step of the process expertly explained and demonstrated.
Please note that this dvd is made from the original 1984 VHS cassette and that there are some small drop outs (thin lines across the screen) in some parts of the programme. However, this doesn't detract from excellent content and the quality of vision and sound is such that the dvd is still an excellent programme which should be watched by experienced and inexperienced horse lovers alike. All of you will enjoy and learn from this masterful example of horse training using a gentle and very successful approach. Click Here For A Clip to tell you more about this dvd programme:
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