Ridecamp: [RC] Miracle Session

<<Anyone on this list have a horse that went through a "miracle" session? 
Report, please>>

Around 10 or 11 years ago I apprenticed with John Lyons...what that meant 
is travel with him for 2 weeks at your own expense.

The weekends were the Symposiums (where he'd start an unbroke horse) & the 
following week would be the clinic.  A person could put their horse in the 
clinic & let an apprentice ride it for a lesser cost & audit at the same 
time.  One of the horses I rode was an Arab gelding that John had started 
in a symposium a year ago.  BTW, John tells (or did at the time) the owner 
of the unbroke horse that the horse is still green after the symposium & to 
continue on with the education as you would any green horse.  Anyway, this 
horse had gone directly to a local trainer & the owner was not happy...so 
she was back at a clinic.  To me, the horse was like any other green horse 
that hasn't been handled consistently, nothing horrid or great.  Seemed to 
remember give to the bit quickly & I enjoyed riding him for the clinic.

The problem I see with these demonstrations, is that the inexperienced 
horse person may come away thinking these horses are ready to go into a 
parade (John used to say he would take the unbroke horse in a parade) and 
they are not.

I will say this, John Lyons is the most focused & determined person I have 
ever met.  I have no doubt HE could take that unbroke horse into the parade 
unsafe as that would be...he is just that way.  The rest of the human 
population can't.

For a while, I thought I could be that kind of horse person & found out I 
can't.

Kinda like that Clinton Anderson guy with his "2 year old gelding Scoota " 
mate ;-P

Lori, Sky & Houston 



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