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Buck Brannaman

(1962) Horse Trainer

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Buck Brannaman is a horse trainer.

Quick Facts About Buck Brannaman

Born: January 29, 1962
Profession: Horse Trainer
Notable works: The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen

About Buck Brannaman

Dan M. "Buck" Brannaman is an American horse trainer and a leading clinician with a philosophy of handling horses based on classical concepts from the vaquero tradition; working with the horse's nature, using an understanding of how horses think and communicate to train the horse to accept humans and work confidently and responsively with them.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Buck Brannaman

You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know…

Children

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In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you.…

Bad thing

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All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.

Contentment

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Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance. That's not to say it's always going to be easy…

Best way

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Everything you do with a horse is a dance,

Dance

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Once I get the horse where he’s responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good…

Attitude

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By the time you’ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves…

Aggression

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Horses are consistent and logical. The horse will do what is easiest for him. If you make it easy for him to…

Accurate

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I’m not trying to turn you into cowboys, I’m just trying to get you better coordinated, get your horse used to things,…

Comfortable

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Theoretically, the human is supposed to be the smart one. Well, if we are, then we need to be able to adjust…

Able

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It's a process and it's a matter of understanding the horse and through any of these little projects you have a beginning,…

Bits

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Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

Firm

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I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in…

Clinic

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Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses…

Desirable

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I often tell people that I truly want the horse to be my feet and legs. I want to be an extension…

Always working

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A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the…

Be a slave

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When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature…

Ask yourself

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Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or…

Approach

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I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does.…

Doe

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You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in…

Baggage

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I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we…

Contentment

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On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn’t feel like he’s pushing you along with him or…

Balance

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The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be…

Able

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When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still…

Asks

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A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what…

Behavior

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Buck Brannaman by topic

Horse (89) Ifs (27) People (22) Humans (19) Life (16) Thinking (15) Way (13) Time (13) Inspirational (13) Littles (11) Wells (10) Needs (10) Might (10) Want (9) Trying (9)