1939-1944

Stunt double for Mickey Rooney, Roddy McDowall, Charleton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet and others 

1948

Tracked wild mustangs and learned “the silent language of Equus”

1950–1969

• NIRA Western Region All Around Championship
• 11 National Championships in Show Ring
• NIRA National Champion Bulldogger
• NIRA National Team Roping Championship

1954

1955

1955-1959

Worked with James Dean on East of Eden

Graduated Hartnell College first in class

1966

Founded Flag Is Up Farms

1966–2004

Started and trained hundreds of race horses; produced champions including:

• Cathy Honey, An Act, Aladancer, Walk in the Sun, Tobin Bronze (United States)
• Alleged, Horse of the World twice (Germany)
• Lomitas and Dajur, European Champions
• Quebrada, Risen Raven, Macanal, Lavirco, Silvano, and Sabiango (Germany)
• Sharivari and Bahroona (New Zealand)

1973–1986

Leading consignor to Hollywood Park/Two-Year-Old Thoroughbreds In Training sale

1985

Gold Card Lifetime Member, PRCA, Professional Rodeo Cowboy’s Association

1986

First public demonstration of Join-Up® in Vancouver, BC, Canada

1988

Named “Stock Horse Man of the Year” by National Reined Cow Horse Association

1989

Queen Elizabeth II invites Monty to Windsor Castle to demonstrate Join-Up® and train her staff.

1996

The Man Who Listens to Horses is published.

1997

1997

1997

Book remains on New York Times best-seller list for 58 weeks

Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) awards Roberts their Equitarian Award at their Washington, DC International Horse Show

National Horse Show Association’s Award of Merit

1998

BBC/PBS documentary Monty Roberts: The Real Horse Whisperer airs.

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

First Join-Up® demonstration tour visits more than 40 states in the United States.

ASPCA honors Roberts with their “Founders” award

Roberts creates the Western Equitarian Awards Banquet held annually for trainers in the Western riding disciplines who choose to train horses in the absence of violence or pain

The British Horse Society bestows their Appreciation Award

Santa Barbara Wildlife Care award for “Lifetime of Dedication”

1999

Monty’s book, Shy Boy: The Horse That Came in from the Wild is released and hits the best-seller lists

1999

Documentary Shy Boy: The Horse That Came in from the Wild airs.

2000

MSPCA bestows the George T. Angell Humanitarian Award

2001

2001

Monty’s book, Horse Sense for People is published.

A special named award “Gentleness is the True Strength” from Kingshurst Junior School Birmingham, England 

2002

Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in Behavioral Sciences

2002

Monty’s fourth book, From My Hands to Yours, is published

2002

Monty demonstrates Join-Up® as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee at Windsor Castle.

2002–2003

Monty, Pat, and Shy Boy ride in Tournament of Roses parades.

2004

The Girls Scouts commission a special Join-Up® badge and training program in honor of Monty’s pioneering work.

2004

Monty’s German bred Sabiango wins the Grade 1 $350,000 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap at the Hollywood Park Racetrack in California, followed shortly thereafter by the $200,000 Kentucky Cup Turf

2004

Monty’s fifth book, Horses in My Life is published in Great Britain, Germany, and Australia.

2005

Awarded second honorary doctorate from the University of Parma for his work in Behavioral Sciences

2005

2005

2006

2006

Monty’s Horses in My Life is additionally published in the United States and in many other languages.

Roberts awarded the Silbernes Pferd (Silver Horse) Award in Germany for lifetime achievement for outstanding contributions to promoting the love of horses. He is the first foreign-born and first American to receive this award.

Documentary completed about Monty’s work with the wild horses and the  aboriginal youth of Palm Island, Australia

Monty’s DVD Series A Backstage Pass! is completed with 17 episodes filmed in ten countries

Global Dressage Forum: Monty Roberts fascinated an audience of international dressage riders, trainers, owners, and journalists with the most elaborate demonstrations of the event.

Monty hosts his first ever Corporate Training Course to license facilitators as well as his Certified Instructors in order to add the Join-Up Corporate Course to their list of courses offered. Fourteen countries are represented.