HOTTEST NEW HORSE TRAINING AID! Made in the U.S.A.

When you are training your colt are you concerned about your own safety and the effectiveness of your training program for your colt?

Are you unsure about the level of training of your unbroke colt or your “green broke” colt?

Don’t risk injury because your unbroke colt or “green broke” colt can buck you off! Hitting the ground after being bucked off can cause serious injury, broken bones and teeth!

Now you can use Sandman-Up before you ever put a foot in a stirrup or throw a leg up over the saddle for the first time!

Test your level of prior preparation of your colt by using Sandman-Up to determine IF your colt is READY to have a rider on his back!

A great advantage of Sandman-Up is to have your colt learn to balance himself with added weight on his back while he is moving and doing ground work!

Add this vitally important step to any training program and it will help keep you safe by preparing the colt to feel more comfortable, better balanced, calm, and better prepared mentally and physically to ride or drive.

Sandman-Up is a unique training aid because it better prepares the colt and helps eliminate you having to summon up the courage to “cowboy up” and hope for the best!

Why is Sandman-Up such an important training aid? Because hospital and doctor bills are expensive! Because pain, suffering, injury, broken bones and teeth are no fun!

Consider the value of Sandman-Up in your training program because we never want to teach the colt to buck with the saddle on his back! Not even once!

The colt’s basic training should be calm and thorough. If you have done a good job of the basic training then Sandman-Up will help complete that training and further prepare the colt to have a rider on his back or to drive.

After the colt is saddled up, tighten your cinch in at least two or three stages over a few minutes time as you move him around doing ground work.

Sandman-Up is easy to use by just placing the saddle seat section on the saddle (courteously!), securing the straps in place, and then snapping the quick snap buckles. You then place the thigh and boot sections as directed.

Check your saddle cinch! Make sure the saddle cinch is tight to riding level tightness and you are ready to begin your day’s training session with your colt.

Next rub and praise the colt for being calm and standing still at this time.

Now your colt will focus on adjusting his balance as he moves with added weight, the weight is approaching the weight of a rider on his back. This is a new sensation for the colt and he will over time learn to adjust, develop, and become more confident in his movements as a result of this new experience, while you do your ground exercises with him.

This teaching technique is NOT a technique where you sack the colt out in the morning and then ride him in the afternoon! BEWARE of quick fixes and rapid training techniques with horses! Remember: You are responsible for your own safety when you are working with or when you are around horses. If your colt is not calm and not standing still then he is not ready for you to use Sandman-Up!

This also means that the colt is not ready for riding!

Do more ground work or get competent help before you proceed!

Another great advantage of using Sandman-Up is to provide the colt with the sensation of having added weight on his back, but without him experiencing the shifting weight of a rider, especially if the rider does not have an independent seat.

Compare the great advantages of Sandman-Up versus a rider. The rider often shifts his weight, often dramatically shifts his weight, which can produce bad results especially on young colts or “green broke” colts! An example of this would be when a rider leans over to pick up the off side stirrup, immediately after the rider mounts. The rider also tries to “control” the colt or “green broke” colt with the reins and bit. The rider can give too many confusing voice commands to the colt – just listen to most riders. The rider can kick the colt’s sides in the seriously mis-guided attempts to get the colt to move his feet! The rider will convey his tense emotions to the colt through all of his actions because the rider is unsure about his own abilities.

The net result of all this activity will be emotional overload on the part of the colt and the colt will explode!

With Sandman-Up the colt will focus calmly on his ground training exercises while he is also developing and improving his balance in preparation for riding (or driving). The colt will also be developing his muscles in preparing for the weight of the rider in the near future.

When a rider first mounts the unbroke colt, the colt experiences a huge overload of weight on the forehand. This new experience causes the colt to make many, often negative posture adjustments of varying degrees. Using Sandman-Up and practicing your ground work exercises, before riding, enables the trainer to teach the colt to shift his weight to the rear, lighten the forehand, and work off his hindquarters.

Sandman-Up provides the colt with physical and emotional advancements in the colt’s training program over a period of time, and that time frame varies with the characteristics of the individual animal, and the ability of the trainer.

An important concept about horse training will be for the trainer to think long term. Some horses get a bad reputation because people want to hurry the training process. There are no bad horses only not so good horse trainers! The colt doesn’t care about your schedule or your budget! The colt does care about how you treat him! If you develop a friendly relationship with him, he will give you his best performance and behavior. Back off on your use of gadgets, chain shank over the nose, severe bits, cables and any harsh and inhumane devices! All those devices are designed to be quick fixes as a substitute for proper training. The use of those harsh devices only manifests a lack of horsemanship on the part of the user. Learn to train colts a better way or seek help. The answer is to teach the horse, allowing him to make mistakes the same way you do, that is the key to success in colt training. The colt has to “blossom, bear fruit, and then ripen” and all that takes time. Maybe two growing seasons instead of one growing season will be required in this case! Many variables will determine your eventual success.

The secret is training in a humane, logical, organized, safe, and patient way.

Remember that 30, 60, 90, 120 days is a very brief time frame in the life of a horse. Keep your expectations realistic and advance the training only at the pace that your horse is able to understand what you are asking him to do. You may also have to advance your knowledge, understanding and sensitivity.

Sandman-Up your natural friend.

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