Saturday, October 20, 2007

Jack Brainard Clinic


Last weekend I attended a 4 day clinic with an 86 year old legend in horsemanship, Jack Brainard. He still rides and trains young horses. He has had 7 world champions in 3 different fields, and bred many more. He is famous for helping people learn flying lead changes. That has been something that I've been trying to do all my riding career.... well, this past weekend, I got my first flying lead changes!! : ) YEA!!!! At the end of the 4 days, there was a little fun competition. There were 3 different sections; pleasure, reining, and obstacle course. I'm so happy to announce that after placing 5th in pleasure, 2nd in reining, and 2nd in obstacle, Buzz and I were named All Around Champions of the 12 participants!!!! That was so cool; especially since there were 2 parelli instructors and a number of very talented horsemen in the class!!! Buzz is still the wonder horse!! Now in WESTERN too!!!

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