Martin Black and his guest Doug Jordan discussed “Starting from where the horse is…”

Doug Jordan and I met in the late 90s while I was starting colts in California and he was visiting Tom Dorrance. Being a open finalist several times in the NCHA Futurity Doug was well known in the cutting horse circles.At that first meeting Doug asked me if I would come to Texas to start colts and with that my contract colt starting career and a long friendship began. He was interested in my colt starting but I was very interested in his subtle way of communicating with his cutting horses. Not only did Doug have a successful record in the show pen but what impressed me was his ability to apply Tom’s principles to his cutting horses.

Of all the people I know and have worked around, and including myself, Doug Jordan has a better understanding of applying Tom Dorrance’s principles to a working horse more than anyone.

“The industry just does things over and over again hoping the horse will remember what it is they are showing them.  And they don’t realize that a horse is capable of thinking, felling, and making decisions.” ~ Doug Jordan

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