Monty Roberts

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410 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Fresh Air · Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’ · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

The falls you've taken over the years, the impact of all the riding and on horses and bulls and

Um, and the doctor told you you'd never ride again.

I think they would have been happier if you walked, but you ended up being able to walk and ride.

However, I'm sure you're much more

um fragile than you were before your back problems.

When you're working with a horse now, are you just a little more self protective?

um of your own body than you were before and and is that affecting your technique with horses?

Yes, I am more protective um now, more careful than I was when I was young.

I think that's a kind of a natural

uh evolution for most people.

But uh for me it's a good deal more serious because I was in a wheelchair

for a while and they didn't know whether I'd get out of that and then I was on crutches for about a year and they didn't know whether I'd ever get off of some support system.

And um I'm just one accident away from

the wheelchair, if you will.

So I'm I'm much more protective now.

And it does affect my work with horses, not all that negatively, because sometimes I just go that bit slower and maybe it's even more effective.

Uh and I'm teaching my young people now to um to go that bit slower and to give the horse a little more opportunity to get ready for things and to

slowly come into things.

I I often say to my students, if you go at something with a horse

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