The stabilizer is one of the most effective and humane devices of its kind I've ever seen
and congratulations to Buck Wheeler, president and owner of Wheeler Enterprises who has
developed the stabilizer. Buck, before we get into the video, give us some of the
highlights of the stabilizer. Well, as everybody knows, you've all seen around, I mean, the tapes
with the round pins, you've seen all the training tapes and everything, but a lot of those, in a lot,
most cases, those horses are not, they're already trained, they're doing, I mean, they're just doing
it by the numbers. I think where mine is going to be a little bit different and entertaining and
educational is I have never seen those horses, what you, it's a good, bad, and the ugly. I never
saw those horses till they led them into me or I walked up to them. I tell you what, I can vouch
for that because I was on the scene for these tapings and I'd never seen anything quite like
it. It's wonderful. Well, and Hugh, that's what it's all about. That's why we're, Word of Mouth has
traveled worldwide and we're in over 60 countries throughout the world because it works. What you're
going to see next happened at Crescent Farms in Paso Robles, California and Buck, that was some
exciting times. Well, it certainly was, Hugh, because this was the first time that this colt
had ever been bided, saddled, or driven in the round pin and using the stabilizer, we did it all.
As a matter of fact, we laid the boy right up on top of this colt, as you'll see, and it was, it was
very effective. One thing you're going to know for sure by the time you see this, the stabilizer
really works. Never been saddled. He's had several days of lunging one way, back the other way,
and that's about it. And he's never had the stabilizer on before. Never had the stabilizer on before. Okay, what we'll do then,
I want to go through the process so that, so the folks understand again the process of putting it
on and everything. We're going to go ahead and do that. Basically, we're going to start this colt
right from scratch like we normally do to put the stabilizer on, set it up, and then we're going to
go ahead and put his bandages on, the front bandages. We already have the cups on, so if he reaches up,
he doesn't reach up and peel a quarter off his front foot. And we'll go ahead and start from there.
Like I said, this is a green colt, so any time that you can go ahead and keep them from getting
upset or having them start pumping that adrenaline before you need to, that's the time to do it. So
we're just going to go ahead and unsnap this, put it around the colt's neck, snap it back in, and we'll
go right up underneath of that left ear again with the top of the snap. Now, I'm going to go ahead and
turn this colt's head a little bit. As you can see, where the cord hooks to the cable over there on
the right side, right up over here, this fits right in the area where the pressure points are. When you
lay it up underneath this left ear with the top of the snap, everything else falls together. Always make
sure that your button is down here against the handle. Now, this particular one is the, for the
race horses, it's a little shorter handle and everything. If I need to adjust this, I just simply
pull this aluminum ferrule down here. I hold the bottom pulley away from it. If I need to make it
larger, I'll pull the slack away from me. If I need to make it smaller, I'll pull it back towards me
through the aluminum ferrule. Always pull that back up and push it up against the top of that pulley
there, or the bottom of the pulley, I mean, and slide your lip guard back up against that because
that's what protects the top lip. At this point, especially with, I like to do it with all the
horses, they feel that salt off your thumb or your finger. Just go ahead and rub that gum a little
bit and while you're going up underneath of there, then you just reach up and simply make sure you're
not hooked on anything. As you're going up underneath there, you're pulling this down at the
same time. One, two, three, and you're on. Okay, at the next step now, we're not on there tight,
we're just on there snug. And as you can see, I can still pull down, pull and release. Now,
at this point, Otto, I'll just take him and turn him in a circle and I'll say,
come here. I always like to, I do so many of these demonstrations, all different horses,
I like to blow on that nose and rub that forehead a little bit and kind of like to
reintroduce myself, so to speak. Folks, it does work. So, I'm going to go ahead and turn him in a
circle now and I'll say, come here. Come here. When we get done with this colt today, you're
going to be able to see what we've accomplished in a very short time. Now, I'm going to go ahead
and turn him the other way, say the same thing, tell him to come here, come here, come here. Now,
I'm going to go ahead and just shorten this up a little bit more. It's just a little bit high here,
so I'll take and pull that aluminum ferrule down again and take the slack up from the offside.
Always take your lip, lift it right up over the plastic tubing, make sure you're up all the way
up over the top of the, or the lips over the top of the plastic tubing. At this point, I've turned
him, I pull it down tight now. It doesn't go anymore. The head sets the pressure. You just
pull it down tight, go back to that pulley the second time, and at this point, it's very critical
for the next 45 seconds to a minute, minute and a half. You'll see this whole colt's head start to
go down. That bottom lip is dropping. It's starting to drop now a little bit. That isle softened up,
but it's very critical that for the next few seconds, a minute, minute and a half, you don't
do anything with this animal because you've got to give it time. We're in the process of doing three
things. Number one, the endorphins are starting to kick in. Number two, he was getting, when I
was turning him, he was getting used to the pressure. And number three, when I said come here, he knew
I was in control. Now, as you can see, that bottom lip is dropped now. This horse, because of the
acupressure, it's non-invasive. It isn't hurting this horse at all. I can go up here. As you can
see with the top lip, there's nothing cutting him whatsoever, but the brain has went ahead and
signaled this horse and started releasing the body's own chemicals called endorphins. Now,
at this point, I can tell I've got both thumbs right down inside this colt's ears. I can go ahead
and turn him. If I were going to clip him, I could go ahead and start clipping at this point. And I
think at this point, Otto will go ahead and start putting those leg wraps on. If you want to assist
me, you can get one side and I'll get one side. For those of you that don't know, this is called
a chaffney bit. About three years ago, I've been in major thoroughbred sales for many years. I've
been watching them handling the colts. When we start training these babies in a round pen,
Otto, you want to hand me the other bridle over there, please? And when you start driving off
them a bit itself, you have a tendency, when you're hooked into that bit, you're actually
pulling that bit and it's oscillating in that horse's mouth. I found out by placing the chaffney
in here, in the way this bit's built, it goes into the mouth and it goes around the jaw. So when I
snap into my driving reins, into the halter, I'm not hooked into the bit itself, even though the
bit's in the halter. So with the pressure of the stabilizer over the top, I really have fingertip
control with it. It just simply snaps right into the halter. The next step, when we're going to go
ahead and start working this, using this on this colt, to take the slack up and so we're not having
anything flop around, just simply roll up the handle here on the stabilizer and stick it right
underneath the keeper here in the halter. In our next step, I'm going to go ahead and snap in my
driving ring and we'll take him one way first and then we'll go the other way. Now I'm going to snap
into the, we're not snapping into the bit here, we're going to snap right into the halter because
as we'll be able to see when we get this colt saddled, when I go ahead and turn this, start pulling
on this horse, because of the pressure on the stabilizer and the way the chaffney bit sits, this
bit isn't going to slide around in his mouth and it's getting the whole bottom part of his jaw, so
he has to come to me and he's not going to get a sore mouth doing it. So if we want to go ahead
and start him to the left first here, Otto. The reason for the round pin, it starts getting the
horses used to their leads. They learn how to go to their left lead, their right lead, but we're
also, when we go ahead and get ready to stop them and we say whoa, they learn to stop and we'll say
come here and bring that horse, just tug on a little bit and he'll come right in to you.
Come here, come here, come here. With very little pressure exerted, the minute you say come here to
that colt, if you notice Otto's rubbing his head, blowing on his nose a little bit, it helps settle
them down, it introduces them who you are and they really get that dependency feeling and really
folks, it's like imprinting this horse because out in the herd there's always the boss mirror,
the boss galloping or the stallion themselves and that's the alpha animal. You become the alpha
person in here with the stabilizer on because you put it on, they're going to have to come back to
you and you're running the show. So if we'll go ahead and we'll snap this on the other side now
and then we'll take him around going the other way. All we use that whip for is just they can
hear it in the air, they can hear it whistle, they can see it. We never have to really put it on the
horse at all, it's just more or less a small intimidating factor so to speak, but it keeps them
moving so once we put them in to start putting them into their paces they know that they don't
stop until we tell them to. We start pulling them down, we'll take up the slack, slowly pull them
in to us and stop them and say come here. So they know it's not going to hurt them, we're going to
be working all over their body with it. We can go ahead, work on their legs, right up through their
legs, all around them. They know it's not going to hurt them. As you can see, look at this colt's
demeanor, his head's dropped, he knows we're back here but we're not having any problem with it.
We're going to go ahead and put the blanket or the saddle towel on him now. Next thing will be the
pad and there again, let him smell it. He knows it's not going to hurt him. Put it up over his
back end a little bit, come back down here. He knows it's not going to frighten him. I don't know
how long the cinch is. Until we get him saddled, just in case I have to reach up and school him a
little bit or whatever we need to do, I'm just going to let that down for a minute. Nice thing
about an exercise saddle, they've got elastic girths on both sides. We want to make sure we
don't overly cinch a colt. So we're going to put it on real loose to start with and then we'll
jip him or go ahead and lounge him both ways again before we hook up our driving reins.
Like to walk him out a little bit before we go ahead and start lunging them. They get used to
the pressure in the saddle. We'll go ahead and lunge them a little bit both ways. We'll take up
some more slack on it and tighten it up a little bit more. They never get into that point where
they feel like they're being bound up. Goes right into a nice easy lope. No bucking, no kicking,
no refusing. We'll go ahead and take up the cinch now a little bit. Reset the saddle back up here
where it belongs. Notice how he just went out on his own. He already knows in this very very short
time what's expected of him. He's had no trauma in the interim doing any part of it whatsoever.
Good boy. Whoa. Well I couldn't be more pleased. He's doing everything we've asked him. The reason
why we're tying these stirrups down as you can well see and we've got a rubber bungee underneath
here is the fact that when we start driving them a lot of times they'll turn around real quick on
you or something like that and the stirrup flips up over their back and then you've got the rope
on both sides. This way it kind of keeps it down where it's supposed to go. As you'll be able to
see when we start turning this colt then because of the pressure the stabilizers right over the top
of the right over the top of the of the halter and everything so we've got all the pressure working
from the stabilizer and everything else. As you can see by this horse's reaction right now he is
totally totally relaxed. Okay I'm gonna go ahead we'll take him both ways again you can see I'm
letting the rope back down here on this colt's hock. There's no kicking there's nothing going
on I'm gonna pull him down and say whoa and I'm gonna turn him in the other way whoa whoa boy whoa
immediately go right back into the right lead going around to the right. He's very receptive
it's almost fingertip control. Now I'm gonna pull him back off the wall a little bit and turn him
the other way and I'll give him a little sound like so he can expect what's gonna happen when
I go ahead and start turning this colt. When we get over here that kind of lets him know I'm gonna
go ahead and switch directions on him and we'll do it again you'll see how smooth what a smooth
transition he makes right into it. See he turned himself that time I never even had to put the
pressure on him. Notice there's no kicking there's absolutely no resentment, resentment, refusal or
anything else whoa whoa boy whoa whoa whoa come here up whoa easy walk good boy whoa whoa
come here to me come here whoa whoa come here good boy
come here good boy I'm gonna go ahead and pull the lip up see there's absolutely nothing there
the most you'll ever get is maybe a little red mark and that's that's it now the very valid
point that I want to make if we had a lip chain or twitch or we were really abusing this horse in
any way whatsoever there's no way I would be able to go right back up underneath of here and put
this back on it and as a horseman you well know right Otto. He had a bath before? Nope.
This is his first bath? First bath. Good afternoon we're here at Oklahoma City at the Heritage Mix
sale here in Oklahoma City and I have two friends of mine we've known each other for many years two
top quarter horse trainers on my right is Danny Eakins from Cypress California and on my left is
Russell Harris from Bandera Texas. Danny I'll go ahead and start with you what has it been about a
year now since we met Los Alameda's and you've been using the stabilizer? That's right Bucky when
you brought this out to me in California at Los Alameda's racetrack and introduced it to me and
I started using it on my horses at Los Alameda's and we found it to be a tremendous aid in our
training operation. Now we've also used it besides our training we've used it for paddock and horses
and in the paddock we found it to be one of the most successful aids that we've ever had as far
as keeping horses relaxed calm get them to the paddock without any problems so as far as an aid
that will help you in your training that not that will get you to the paddock will keep your horses
relaxed keep them quiet while you're saddling it's one of the most useful things that I've ever had
in my training business. Well that's what seems to be the general consensus even with all the
Thoroughbred trainers and the working horse trainers have been using it also plus the fact
that I think the first night that we used it the paddock judge wanted to see what kind of rigging
you had on the horse right? He thought we were using something that might not have been a little
orthodox there at that time but after we showed it to him and some of the other trainers went to
looking at it it was unbelievable the response we got over this thing and how many people did
want to use it to saddle horses and bring them to the paddock. See at Los Alameda's as you know we
have about an hour to an hour and a half when horses leave our barn till we actually get them
saddling on the racetrack so if you take a horse leaves the racetrack or leaves my barn goes to
the racetrack and they're real nervous they're real anxious to get there and we have a lot of
problems with them they've lost their race before we ever get them on the racetrack so by using this
stabilizer it's helped us win a lot of races at Los Alameda's. Well thank you very much Janney
over here on my left is Russell Harrison and Russell you've seen me do a couple of two or three
of the demonstrations now and the last couple days here at the sale and everything and you've ordered
a bunch of them for all your stables will be shipping into you what is your assessment of what
you can do with the babies and breaking them and everything from there? Well I've been around for
quite a few years and I was really really impressed with how these horses relaxed and how quick they
responded and how they really worked with it I was really really impressed with the way the thing
worked it was he could manage these young horses that had never been handled and clip their ears
and work around them without any kind of problems and it was safe they couldn't get hurt and it was
humane and like I said we've run through four different stables all over the country so we're
gonna try them at each one of them. Well I thank you very much and I know you've got some of the
top quarter horses in the world that you're training would you on a one to nine or one to ten basis
where how would you rate the stabilizer as effectiveness and using it on young horses to
start breaking them with and in your daily course of your duties? Well I don't know how you would
rate it because I haven't seen anything quite like it you know we've had to try to foul a horse before
with either put a lip shank on them or using a twitch or something and you were trying to manhandle
them this here you don't manhandle at all in fact they they act like they halfway enjoy it when they
get through it and they relax and it's not cruel it's not mean and when you get through with them
they're not mad at you and they seem to be a lot more content. Well that's exactly it and that's
because we have been endorsed by some of the top universities and veterinarians in the world
that's what they're seeing also because of the the euphoria that's induced from the endorphin
release on it when you get done and you hit right on the head when you said that they don't get mad
at you but because they're under that that sort of euphoria they're feeling good while you're doing
it so you never quite and we've all been training a lot of years and broken a lot of babies and you
if you start them off right you won't have those problems later on don't you think that's about it?
I think the older you get the more wiser you become by these things and the less that not only you want
the horse to get hurt you want to keep a little bit safer yourself you're not quite as quick as
you were when you were younger and if I can get by them and not hurt them and not get and get your
employees hurt and things it just makes your whole job a lot easier and it really does they respond
real well to it. Well that's entirely correct and I think in 1996 D. Wayne Lucas probably showed the
world exactly how well it worked because not only did he have it on grindstone that won the Kentucky
Derby he had it on all five horses in the Kentucky Derby and three weeks later editors note whom
everybody knows in the racing world anyway he was so ranked that this course everywhere he went it
was kind of like the credit card he took it with him and three weeks later he won the Belmont after
being schooled galloped with it on paddocked with it on cooled out with it on he didn't go anywhere
without it so gentlemen I want to thank you very much this afternoon in Russell it's really been
a pleasure as you haven't seen you in a long time thank you very much Denny same to you
you bet and thank you very much and from Oklahoma City thank you.
This time the scene is an outdoor round pen in Oklahoma and we have lots of variety on this one
but I understand a quarter horse and a paint colt what happened? Well Dave Martinez there he'd
raised this quarter horse colt and there again the same kind of scenario as in California this colt
had never been bided clipped driven or saddled before we do it all within about eight to ten
minutes and then and the real great one is this paint colt dragging Dave across that round pen
he's got both heels dug in we've all been there and he's plowing that Oklahoma red. You have to
see it to believe it so let's take a look. Well good afternoon Dave. Good afternoon. Dave you want
to introduce yourself and tell us what we have here please. Well my name is Dave Martinez and I've got
a two-year-old colt here that's hadn't been handled that much he's we've probably brought him up every
two or three months and trimmed his feet and that's about all handling he's had he's never been
saddled or bridled or roached or anything like that. So he's never had a clipper on him or
bided or anything else? That's right. Okay Dave well I really want to thank you for the opportunity
to be able to show you how the stabilizer will work and also that the time that can be saved
and not only that but when we get done with this colt he's going to really like us today and he's
not going to be getting a sore mouth out of it he's going to learn his retentive rate you're going
to be amazed at what this colt will learn in the next few minutes and I thank you very much and
we'll go ahead and get started with it. When we were talking about our acupuncture points
and pressure points are right in this area from right in over the pole and right up through here
in other words it works connected from the cage cord to the cable if it comes down here
on this facial bone you need to go to the next size smaller. Now at this next step I'm going to
go ahead and turn this colt see we're loose I'm going to pull like I said previously I'm going
to go ahead and pull and release pull and release I'll say come here to this colt at this point
I'm going to circle him to the right first come here come here and then to the left
pull and release pull and release
now the very next step I'm going to pull this down snug snug folks it won't go any further the
headsets of pressure and I'll go take depress the spring load here and go all the way to the top
pulley now the very next step is absolutely nothing you always want to wait the full period of time
until you get them into that position as you can see it's starting a little quicker right now we're
only at about we're not even to a minute yet and but you want to give it plenty of time before you
start any of the operations that you're going or procedures that you're going to do now because
this colt has never been saddled or anything before I'm going to do a few of the other things
with him to make sure that he's relaxed while we're going into the before we start the
before we start the saddling procedure and everything else the other point is because this
was really designed for that one person working alone and the American Horse Council when they
took their last survey 86 percent of the people working with these horses are women so in a lot
of cases they're always working alone and they don't have that help so it's very critical that
you don't have to have somebody up here on the other end of the the old twitch so to speak and
everything else to be able to do this now the point I'm going to make here when I let this leg down
you watch it go down it's going to go down
very easily very relaxed because with the endorphin release it's been going through already
that's what's happened this colt has never been clipped before right right okay ladies and
gentlemen I'm only going to do the outside of this colts it's winter time here in Oklahoma
and I'm only going to do I'm just going to square the ears up but I'm going to go ahead and turn
them for you and I'll show you what you're able to do what you've been able to what we'll be able
to do with the stabilizer already in this quick at the time move over here to the other ear
now just in case that we're getting this horse ready for a show or sale or something else we
could go ahead and get the whole nose done go right inside of the nostrils with this clipper
and do everything else and we're not going to do that at this session however finish up all
the facial hairs get underneath of the eyes do everything else that we needed to do now this
colts never had a clipper on before we could go ahead and and also get the bridle path and everything
else done and snaps right into the halter here now we're going to get ready to start driving this colt
he'll lick on this a little bit because he's never been driven or or never had anything in his mouth
before so he'll lick on that a little bit now to go ahead and because the stabilizer is designed
so you can you can drive in it you can work in it you can ride in it uh editors note that won the
Belmont stakes in 1996 and made three close to three million dollars he galloped every day on
the racetrack with it because they couldn't control his horse he was running off and he
was running off and when you pull back on this mouthpiece the you've got total control because
you're hitting those acupressure points here and behind the ears again it goes right over the top
of the bridle or the halter or whatever type of equipment you may have on
so
one other thing ladies and gentlemen gentlemen that i neglected to do when i started
i like to introduce myself to the horses i'll go ahead and rub on that forehead a little bit
blow on that nose and it always seems to give them a little sense of uh a little better sense
of trusting me and uh because before this is over we're going to be readily become fast friends
now we're going to go back to the left
so
as you can see
when i reach up and grab this pole i've got fingertip control come here come here come here
whoa we've got the cold up this far everything's going along great we're going to go ahead and
start saddling him now dave if you'll please hand me the saddle please and we'll go ahead and
start getting the job done
always move everything slow as you're doing it do not you know never try and
frighten your animal or everything put your cinch up
what i like to do just let everything kind of sit there and i'll go around to the off side
put my cinch and stirrup down
so
very easily bring that cinch back up underneath the belly and i like using this exercise or a flat
saddle because we have elastic we have elastic on both sides of the cinch so we don't have to
since she's too colts too tight to start with
now i like to everybody does it different i like to do what's worked for me and i kind of like to
tie my stirrups down so they don't flop around once i get the ropes through them i've got the
other stirrup tied down over there now at this point i'm going to go ahead and walk this colout
a little bit so he can start getting used to this pressure because he's never had the stirrup or the
cinch on before everything's going along fine i'll put it into this side here
and david if you do me a pleasure or favor and put that through the stirrup for me please over there
okay now at this point we're ready to start out now the first thing i'm going to i'm going to go
ahead and put this rope from my offside over this colts rump and i'm going to turn him away from me
because i want to start driving him to the right first
easy easy
easy
as you can see
we've got the bit on the colt it's not sliding around in his mouth the pressure's coming off
from the stabilizer he isn't i'm going to go ahead and turn him now we'll go back to the left
there's no kicking there's no bucking
now i'm going to whoa whoa whoa boy whoa whoa whoa whoa now drop my off rope and say come here
come here now just reel him right into me whoa good boy whoa
i think for the first go around you absolutely couldn't ask to be any better
what the stabilizer is able to do ladies and gentlemen you're going to take 90 of that buck
and kick and everything else out of these colts everything i've just taught this baby in the last
few minutes he will remember for life and there has not absolutely been nothing caustic about it
nothing invasive there's nothing hurting him and uh he's absolutely going to remember what's going
on now i'm going to just give him a walk him up a little bit come here
whoa
oh i'll pick up my rope and we'll start him back the other way
okay you can turn him loose dave i got him if he backs up away from me i've got him oh boy
oh now i'll get the button all the way back up to the top pulley
as you can see this hasn't been 30 seconds his bottom lip has already dropped
the head's starting to come down
and i'd say within 20-30 seconds uh we're going to be doing some serious training here
i'll put the pressure on the stabilizer and the butt rope at the same time come here come here
you can see how easily this colt's coming with me absolutely no resistance whatsoever come here
now i'm going to release this leg and watch it go down
now i'm going to go ahead and start clipping this colt sears
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in the last year improved technology has made horses in training easier to manage
drew deiner tells us tonight about the impact of a product called the stabilizer
in succession as cigar assumes the crown of immortality horse racing's biggest star
the belmont winner
and the kentucky derby winner what do all these horses have in common a device called the stabilizer
it's just been a culmination of many things in many years of putting this together the idea isn't
new but the way it's set up is and the way it's set up is this like any training device pressure
is put under the lip and behind the ear which causes the release of endorphins that calm the
animal it's been around for a long time but like i said earlier bucks taken really developed it
into a nice piece of equipment where it's easy to use and it's controllable you know at least you
can control a patient the old ones used to be where you had to tie them with a tie a knot and
it was tough to get them to release buck could use the device on his own for several years but his
big break came in january when he approached d wayne lucas with his product and i just told him
i said wayne i built the better mouse trap and it works and uh i showed it to him and he acknowledged
that he'd use something like it with a lip cord training quarter horses and uh he said well buck
leave it with me and if it works we'll put it in all our divisions lucas like other trainers uses
the stabilizer in the paddock before a race when a horse is likely to become antsy local farms like
gains way were impressed with the device right away the day that buck come to demonstrate we had a
filly that we couldn't clip you know up around her ears and uh she was a pretty much of a rogue
and took her out put the lip cord on her he sacked her out you know sack underneath her legs and over
back and everything then we took her in the barn and clipped her and she didn't do a thing
so that's a that's pretty convincing if you handle horses for a living you've probably heard about
all sorts of crazy new inventions ones that are supposed to make your life easier but many of them
fall short well one man has invented a device that has the horse world sitting up and taking notice
kurt jefferson reports from keeneland well this goes over the top of the head behind the ears
over the pole and this goes underneath the top lip veteran horse breeder and trainer buck wheeler
shows off his invention that's selling by the thousands from kentucky to new zealand it's called
the stabilizer and horses all over the world are feeling the impact there's that old expression
create a better mousetrap in the world is going to be the path to your door and i think this is for
horses a better mousetrap a better mousetrap that's used to calm unruly horses here's how it works the
restraint system fits over the horse's head and under the upper lip within 45 seconds the horse's
brain begins releasing chemicals called endorphins and the unruly horse becomes relaxed buck who grew
up on a north dakota indian reservation says he got the idea from a similar bridle designed by
native americans the stabilizer is now on the fast track as more and more top horses like belmont
stakes winner editors note wear the device the top trainers in the world are using this
so it makes me very pleased as a horseman and they're coming back up and congratulating me for
for uh coming up with it i guess for now buck his wife and three sons are manufacturing the
stabilizer in their minnesota home but with deals pending in spain saudi arabia canada and even more
distant places they'll have to hire more help in lexington kurt jefferson 18 action news buck
wheeler is demonstrating the stabilizer at the september yearling sale out at keenland
horse experts we spoke to claim it does work as demonstrated i have some very special guests with
us this afternoon this is dr julie wilson from university of minnesota and julie and you want
to tell them a little bit about the first horse that we did the surgical application we had a
little quarter horse gelding that had very bad sinusitis on one side of his face this horse
resisted a lot of things we asked him to do such as going into the stocks he had to be
drugged in order to get him into the stocks and he very much resented the medical treatment of
flushing his sinuses which is what he needed in order to get better so we were very anxious to
see if the stabilizer would work on him well and i think uh the rest is kind of history that's why
we're standing here today and it was um not only did uh did it work you know to be able to flush
him and i think they used about 500 ccs that we ran through there uh but also the horse learned in
a very very short time less than two minutes of how to load into those stocks correct yep it was
very very effective on him and the best part yet was we were able to have the owner be part of the
demonstration she saw the affected hat on her horse and she's been able to continue to use it
to treat him at home and he is improving so we're very very pleased buck wheeler and i were at the
jim simon arena in cannon falls minnesota and believe me there was a lot of action after the
auction especially with couples like this trying to load their purchases into the trailer for the
first time this particular couple had been trying for 45 minutes here's how buck wheeler came to the
rescue well this particular colt was a third bread colt these people had just purchased down there
at simon's arena and we'd watched them for quite a while and they weren't getting this colt in
so i went down and offered uh introduced myself and offered our services um as you can see this
colt just wasn't going to go load in that trailer form and by this time they'd already worked on
him for a half an hour or more um i circled him a couple times i put the stabilizer on set it up
like we've been doing through the show i went ahead and applied my butt rope this was really
a hard case at this point we put him up there i had the fella straighten him up he's straightening
him up into the trailer right now and uh this horse had been used to loading in a wide angle
trailer in the back or a wide door trailer and uh so i just have him kind of get him lined up here
then i had him go around and uh go ahead and put his right foot in he's getting awful close to
going in right now and uh i'm inside of the trailer and uh putting the pressure pulling
and releasing pulling and releasing and uh i tell the fellow just to go ahead and pick up that right
leg it kind of gets him started in there and he puts his weight up and i put a little pressure
on him here um i have him move that foot just a little bit further forward and um and then i just
tell him to kind of step back out of the way and i'm in there talking to the horse i pet him on the
forehead blew on his nose a little bit and just told him come on in and there we go we got him
loaded and you know buck it really works we raised babies yearlings and work with two-year-olds
and i couldn't do it because i do a lot of things by myself and i couldn't do it alone without my
stabilizer now i use it all the time my biggest thing that i had a problem with to start with
was i never gave it time to work i would put it on and tighten it up and i wanted to go right
to it right now you do have to just give it a little bit of time and it'll do everything you
want them to we can clip ears we do muzzles we do feet when you're showing time is an element
exactly what about have you pulled blood with it yet you know for the for doing your registrations
or when you start getting ready to trim or their first first baths all this really comes in you
know yes it does we used to have some real catastrophes at our house and now thanks to
the stabilizer everybody is nice and calm when we work with them well i really appreciate that
sandy and and we're getting i mean uh endorsements in an email and uh our website and everything else
but it's it's that's what everybody's talking about and you know that's what it was really
designed for people like yourselves and myself where you got to work a lot alone all the time
and by golly and because you can't even compare this to a lip or chain or twitch right and uh
doesn't hurt the horse and and it's humane and tell the folks uh what happens after you've used
it more than once on them instead of being head shy people say well does it make them head shy or
all this it's just a actually opposite isn't it yes yes they're very calm when you put it on you
don't have any problem with them and they'll each time it's easier and easier until you don't need
it thank you very much sandy for stopping by and you know that's happened to us all over the country
whether we're in kentucky horse park or equitana usa people after they've used it they bought in
it and we've been on it you know about two years now they'll come by and say buy it it really works
and uh so that that can be our biggest endorsement in the world but it's by word of mouth because it
really works thank you again you're welcome well ladies and gentlemen i really want to thank you
for being with us this afternoon and um and doing that throughout the video there are just a few
tips i want to cover in using your stabilizer after you purchase it and some of these are very
vital so please pay attention to what what we're going on remember if you have a very fractious
or a green colt that you need to get it on it's designed so just simply unsnap it go around the
horse's neck pop it in and then slide it the top snap goes right underneath that hole in the left
ear it goes over the top of the pole and up underneath the top lip as you're pulling up the
slack underneath the top lip you just simply switch hands take your right hand and depress
the spring loaded button you go up to the top pulley at this point always remember the very
next step you do take and lift your lip to make sure you're up over the the whole lip guard here
so you're not pinching anything now because these are set up on jigs in there even though it's a
medium size a particular particular one is yellow we have five sizes as you well know it goes all
the way from miniature clean to draft so sometimes you there is a necessity to be able to you have to
shorten the head stall up this is only if you need to do that you just simply pick up that bottom
pulley and put it between your right index finger and thumb with your left hand pull down that
little aluminum ferrule at this point if i want to shorten it up i'll pull that slack through that
little barrel keeper there away from the off side or your right side that'll shorten it now if i
want to lengthen it i pull it back away from there again and simply pull it the other way where the
mouth guard is on there away from me and that'll lengthen it in all cases remember always take and
slide that back up there the aluminum ferrule up against the top pulley so it's tight because
that keeps it from slipping and always put your mouth guard back up against it because that's
what protects your your membrane underneath of the top lip now if you're going to be on there for a
extended period of time all you have to do is remember that if your body clipping or or you're
going to be a long time shoeing or whatever remember all you have to do is just simply
release this spring-loaded little button there your red button a half an inch or so and that
release releases a top end pressure if the horse starts acting up all you have to do is go back
go back up there and take up the slack again and uh you tighten it back up on him and remember
never ever take the handle and tie it up to anything it wasn't made for that it's just to
adjust the stabilizers so please don't do not tie your animal up to every anything never leave him
alone unattended and if you have any questions whatsoever always consult your veterinarian
because they're our first line of defense and i do it many times believe me uh the other thing i
want to thank you very much for joining us this afternoon uh i've had a lot of fun making this
tape i hope i've saved you a lot of time and you're going to save your horses a lot of headaches
and yourself too thank you very much for joining us
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