Salty tracks your horse ten times a second and answers like a cow — drifting, running, stopping, turning back. Nobody driving a remote. Nothing to feed.
Bought high, fed daily, hauled twice, and sour in weeks — a training string ties up serious money to give you a handful of honest works. Salty costs once, never sours, never bloats, and is fresh at six in the morning.
Every flag machine before this one needed a second person driving it — and the flag only ever did what they did. Salty senses where your horse is and answers on its own. If you board your horse and ride alone, you can finally work cattle-style. Alone.
The three things every performance horse is judged on, and every green one has to learn. Position-reactive drills for reined cow horses, reiners, barrel horses, ranch versatility — and a moving, unpredictable target for desensitizing the hot ones.
No cameras. No rails. No second person. Three small boxes on your posts, a puck on your saddle horn, and a machine that always knows where your horse is — in dust, rain, glare, or pitch dark.
A small puck sits on your saddle horn and tells Salty where your horse is, every step. Battery lasts the session, swaps in seconds.
Clamp three small boxes to your posts and press one button. They figure out where they are on their own — no tape measure, no aiming.
Reads your speed and line of approach, applies real cattle pressure logic, and decides — hold, run, or turn back.
Accelerates, rates, stops square, and snaps back on a cable span — up to 45 km/h, quicker than the real thing.
Classic fence work. The flag holds, drifts, runs and turns back off your horse's position — a fresh one, every single run.
Randomized stop timing builds a horse that waits on you — not one that memorizes the pattern.
The flag reverses the instant your horse commits. Clean turns both directions, and nothing for the horse to anticipate.
The flag holds a set offset off your speed. Teach rate and position without borrowing a lead horse.
Salty logs position, speed, and reaction from every run. Replay a session, watch the approach line, and put a number on the progress you can already feel. Show an owner exactly what their money bought this month.
| How it sees | Radio positioning, not cameras — works in dust, rain, glare and pitch dark. It always knows where your horse is. |
| How it reacts | Quicker than a real cow — and it can be dialed back to feel exactly like one. |
| Flag speed | Up to 28 mph, with a snap-back turn a fresh one would be proud of. |
| Span | 50–80 ft, cut the line to fit your pen — not the other way around. |
| Setup | Under 15 minutes, one person. Clamp the anchors, press one button, ride. |
| Power | Battery — a full training day per charge. Plug it in overnight like your phone. |
| Horn tag | Sits on your saddle horn. Battery lasts the session, spare included, swaps in seconds. |
| Modes | Cow work · Sprint–stop · Rollback · Rate — each with Fresh / Honest / Dull personality. |
| Safety | Big red stop button, rider breakaway lanyard, and it halts itself if your horse gets too close to the line. See below. |
| Weather | Built to live at the arena, not in your tack room. |
Designed by people who build safety systems for heavy machinery for a living. Every layer fails toward stopped, and nothing below a layer can override it.
A physical mushroom at the post cuts motor power at the battery. No software in the path. Overrides everything.
A watercraft-style breakaway lanyard from your belt to a saddle transmitter. Come off, the pin pulls, the machine stops. Transmitter dies or leaves range — machine stops. It can't fail on.
Salty knows where your horse is — that's the whole product. Cross the standoff line toward the cable and the flag halts before you get there.
The manual remote and the touchscreen sit below every kill in the chain. Convenience never outranks a stop.
Salty comes out of 26 years of building automation for heavy industry, pointed at a 20-year itch: cattle-quality training without cattle. Designed, built, and proven on real horses outside Edmonton — by people who ride.
EDMONTON, ALBERTAField trials are running now. Reserve a demo slot, get build updates, and lock first-run pricing before the trade-show crowd hears about it.