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00:00I love animals, all animals, and especially, of course, horses.
00:06So the horses made who I am.
00:08I hated school when I was a kid.
00:10It was torture for me.
00:13I like freedom.
00:14I like to see the sky.
00:16I hate indoors.
00:17I don't like to see walls.
00:19And even when I was at school, I used to always fight with the kids, other kids always my
00:25chair next to the window so I can't see out.
00:28I call myself a horse student, not horse whisperer or a horse master.
00:34I call myself horse student until today.
00:36I'm still learning from them.
00:38We had the other day, a horse, you cannot touch him, he bites, he kicks, he rears and
00:43stuff, a stallion, and now he's idiot proof, you can put a kid on him, he wouldn't do anything.
00:48I start in the morning at 6 o'clock, I have my coffee and just start working a horse.
00:54I ride usually, or fixing a problem horse.
00:57There is no routine, there is no routine.
00:59Sometimes I've got a problem horse came to be fixed, you know.
01:04Sometimes I have a horse and just train him to do a film work or live show stuff.
01:10I have new horses, sometimes you get them to do jobs, people ask for, you know, there
01:16is no routine basically.
01:18Usually start 6, around 10, 10.30, 11 I finish the morning and we have a break and we start
01:25again 3.30, 4 o'clock to 7.00, 8.00 in the evening and we call it a day.
01:30This is basically the daily routine with the horses.
01:33Every horse has to be checked out and cleaned from everything, make sure he's healthy, that
01:39he has no cuts, no ticks, no, you know.
01:41So that's the daily routine with every horse here.
01:44You see, they shake their feet so there is no dirt in them, there is no stone stuck in
01:50the foot.
01:52This is where all the horses and that's where the accommodations and I put some horses there
01:57sometimes too because I have 20 boxes there and this is 40 so it's totally 60 stables
02:03here for horses.
02:06And it depends on the weather, if the weather is good, they're all out in the paddocks.
02:11If the weather is not good, they're all in air condition in the stables inside.
02:15So they all, you know, they have, I look after the horses more than people because they cannot
02:20look after themselves.
02:21If they can, they can, you know.
02:23So basically the horses are everything to me and they are priority in everything.
02:30That's why you asked the guy earlier in the room, who's the boss, what he said, the horses,
02:34not me.
02:35Boy, Dusty, good boy.
02:38Hey, Dusty.
02:41He born here, Dusty.
02:46Called him Dusty because he born in a sandstorm day, that's why we call him Dusty.
02:51Now we have horses that come to this ranch from around the region to get fixed and we
02:56give them guarantee work and they know that, you know, the horse comes with the big problems
03:01and he lives great and he comes and stays like that.
03:03We give them homework.
03:04After I fix the horse, I give the trainer homework to carry on with the horse so he
03:10doesn't go back to his bad habit.
03:13This is Rahal, named the ranch after him.
03:16This is his reins when he died and this is his shoe and this is his hair from his mane.
03:26We work with them all day, you know, but I think sometimes, you know, they surprise you.
03:29They are healthy and perfect and they just get sick.
03:32They got a colic, you know, or they got temperature and stuff like that.
03:36It's just like human, you know, just suddenly they get sick, especially horses.
03:39They're very sensitive animals because they don't, they're not like other animals.
03:43So they don't, any gas or any, one end only.
03:47So they don't throw up like the other animals.
03:49They don't purp and gas just stays in and their guts goes that way.
03:55So instead of this way, so everything comes from one end only and that's why they, sometimes
04:00they get colic, especially if they don't train, if they don't walk a lot, if they feed them
04:05a lot and they don't walk, so they then get the gas out and that's sometimes they get
04:10colic and we deal with them.
04:12So we don't call the vet much.
04:13We don't use the vet much.
04:15We have our own stuff and we deal with it.
04:18But sometimes, sometimes if it's a big, major job, we have to call the vet.
04:22Sometimes we stay all night with the horse if we have to.
04:24We take shifts.
04:26So because you put the drip on and you have to walk them sometimes with the drip.
04:30So to get the gas out, they have to walk.
04:32So sometimes somebody holding the drip and somebody walking the horse with the drip too.
04:37So yeah, we'll get them through, through that.
04:42Then in the evening, it's over, quick shower, wait for the dinner here, put the fire on
04:49and some friends come, some staff come, come over for dinner as well.
04:53We, you know, it's just a ranch life style.
04:56Just as I said, every day we do this.
04:58It's nothing new, you know.