Backstage Pass with Monty Roberts

Monty Roberts goes on tour to help difficult horses over come their fears.

Backstage Pass with Monty Roberts

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Backstage Pass with Monty Roberts Season 11

Backstage Pass with Monty Roberts Season 12

Backstage Pass with Monty Roberts Season 14

On tour in Poland, Monty employs a home-made dummy rider in starting a gelding named Good Luck under saddle. (S11, Ep 6/12).
At Flag Is Up Farms, Monty begins to rehabilitate a young racehorse who has learned bad habits such as rearing with a rider. (S11, Ep 7/12).
Monty continues to rehabilitate a fractious racehorse and achieves his stated goals of having her back into the starting gate and break from it with a gallop.(S11, Ep 8/12).
Smokey is a Quarter Horse colt bred to work cattle, and accepts his first saddle and rider without resistance to fear.(S11, Ep 9/12).
Monty enters the Gentling Pen to Join-Up with and befriend Cinder, a horse who was untouched until he was brought to Flag Is Up Farms to participate in the Gentling Wild Horses class (S11, Ep 10/12).
Jim is an elegant Friesian stallion who has had some foot issues and has learned to kick at farriers. Monty work with Jim to teach him the benefits of holding still . (S11, Ep 11/12).
Apple is a 3 year old American Saddlebred filly who came to Monty to learn some basic skills and raise her likelihood of finding a permanent, loving home. (S11, Ep 12/12).
Marley is a wild mare learning to be tame in Monty�s Gentling Wild Horses Course. (S12 Ep 1/12).
Monty shows step by step how to make a mannequin rider from easily available materials to take the risks on fractious horses before the human rider mounts. (S14 Ep 1/12)
Monty tries out the mannequin rider on his horse Chrome. Finding it useful but overly floppy Monty adds internal structure to his dummy rider and puts it to the test again with excellent results.(S14 Ep 2/12)
Raylan is a 4 year old Connemara - Dutch Warmblood cross who came to Monty for his first training experience. Preparing for his first human rider the athletic colt goes from Join-Up to a mannequin rider. (S14 Ep 3/12)
Raylan returns to be started under saddle, with Monty mentoring advanced student Jonathan Boswell. The newly built mannequin rider, with 5 plastic bags attached to him, rides Raylan first. (S14, Ep 4/12)
Lucca is a 18:2 hand warmblood who has never learned how to cooperate with his handlers. It falls to Monty to connect with this larger than life and utterly striking horse. (S14 Ep 5/12)
In his second session with Lucca Monty uses turning patterns to soften and supple Lucca's way of going on the long lines (S14 Ep 6/12)
After Lucca learns in record time to come to the mounting block and stand patiently for his rider Monty remarks that Lucca's brain not just his body is big. (S14 Ep 7/12)
Bonita is a big beautiful thoroughbred who was discarded as a polo horse due to her highly sensitive nature. Bonita manifests her desperation in the round pen as Monty begins his process of rebuilding her trust and cooperation.(S14 Ep 8/12)
Responding to Monty’s gentle prompts, Bonita emerges from her defensive panic and finds comfort and safety in partnership. (S14, Ep 9/12)
Fabuloso is a big horse with a timid heart who cannot be approached with clippers in hand. After a Join-Up Monty uses an electric toothbrush to incrementally habituate the gelding to the feared sound of clippers. (S14 Ep 10/12)
One of 3 mustang herd mates brought to Monty for gentling Casey is frightened of the sights and sounds of the human world. Monty uses his "Lake and Stream" method to help Casey get over his fear of plastic tarpaulins. (S14 Ep 11/12)
Monty guides Casey, a wild mustang, through an incremental process of habituation. As Monty causes Casey no pain, he is able to win the horse’s complete trust. (S14, Ep 12/12)

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