A day in the life of Emirati Ali Al Ameri: The man who ‘speaks’ to wild horses

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00:00I love animals, all animals, and especially, of course, horses.

00:06So the horses made who I am.

00:08I hated school when I was a kid.

00:10It was torture for me.

00:13I like freedom.

00:14I like to see the sky.

00:16I hate indoors.

00:17I don't like to see walls.

00:19And even when I was at school, I used to always fight with the kids, other kids always my

00:25chair next to the window so I can't see out.

00:28I call myself a horse student, not horse whisperer or a horse master.

00:34I call myself horse student until today.

00:36I'm still learning from them.

00:38We had the other day, a horse, you cannot touch him, he bites, he kicks, he rears and

00:43stuff, a stallion, and now he's idiot proof, you can put a kid on him, he wouldn't do anything.

00:48I start in the morning at 6 o'clock, I have my coffee and just start working a horse.

00:54I ride usually, or fixing a problem horse.

00:57There is no routine, there is no routine.

00:59Sometimes I've got a problem horse came to be fixed, you know.

01:04Sometimes I have a horse and just train him to do a film work or live show stuff.

01:10I have new horses, sometimes you get them to do jobs, people ask for, you know, there

01:16is no routine basically.

01:18Usually start 6, around 10, 10.30, 11 I finish the morning and we have a break and we start

01:25again 3.30, 4 o'clock to 7.00, 8.00 in the evening and we call it a day.

01:30This is basically the daily routine with the horses.

01:33Every horse has to be checked out and cleaned from everything, make sure he's healthy, that

01:39he has no cuts, no ticks, no, you know.

01:41So that's the daily routine with every horse here.

01:44You see, they shake their feet so there is no dirt in them, there is no stone stuck in

01:50the foot.

01:52This is where all the horses and that's where the accommodations and I put some horses there

01:57sometimes too because I have 20 boxes there and this is 40 so it's totally 60 stables

02:03here for horses.

02:06And it depends on the weather, if the weather is good, they're all out in the paddocks.

02:11If the weather is not good, they're all in air condition in the stables inside.

02:15So they all, you know, they have, I look after the horses more than people because they cannot

02:20look after themselves.

02:21If they can, they can, you know.

02:23So basically the horses are everything to me and they are priority in everything.

02:30That's why you asked the guy earlier in the room, who's the boss, what he said, the horses,

02:34not me.

02:35Boy, Dusty, good boy.

02:38Hey, Dusty.

02:41He born here, Dusty.

02:46Called him Dusty because he born in a sandstorm day, that's why we call him Dusty.

02:51Now we have horses that come to this ranch from around the region to get fixed and we

02:56give them guarantee work and they know that, you know, the horse comes with the big problems

03:01and he lives great and he comes and stays like that.

03:03We give them homework.

03:04After I fix the horse, I give the trainer homework to carry on with the horse so he

03:10doesn't go back to his bad habit.

03:13This is Rahal, named the ranch after him.

03:16This is his reins when he died and this is his shoe and this is his hair from his mane.

03:26We work with them all day, you know, but I think sometimes, you know, they surprise you.

03:29They are healthy and perfect and they just get sick.

03:32They got a colic, you know, or they got temperature and stuff like that.

03:36It's just like human, you know, just suddenly they get sick, especially horses.

03:39They're very sensitive animals because they don't, they're not like other animals.

03:43So they don't, any gas or any, one end only.

03:47So they don't throw up like the other animals.

03:49They don't purp and gas just stays in and their guts goes that way.

03:55So instead of this way, so everything comes from one end only and that's why they, sometimes

04:00they get colic, especially if they don't train, if they don't walk a lot, if they feed them

04:05a lot and they don't walk, so they then get the gas out and that's sometimes they get

04:10colic and we deal with them.

04:12So we don't call the vet much.

04:13We don't use the vet much.

04:15We have our own stuff and we deal with it.

04:18But sometimes, sometimes if it's a big, major job, we have to call the vet.

04:22Sometimes we stay all night with the horse if we have to.

04:24We take shifts.

04:26So because you put the drip on and you have to walk them sometimes with the drip.

04:30So to get the gas out, they have to walk.

04:32So sometimes somebody holding the drip and somebody walking the horse with the drip too.

04:37So yeah, we'll get them through, through that.

04:42Then in the evening, it's over, quick shower, wait for the dinner here, put the fire on

04:49and some friends come, some staff come, come over for dinner as well.

04:53We, you know, it's just a ranch life style.

04:56Just as I said, every day we do this.

04:58It's nothing new, you know.

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