For the last 2 days I have been participating in a Russell Beatty clinic. Russell Beatty is an endorsed Dennis Reis instructor who has a passion for horses and teaching others how to work with them in a way beneficial to both the horse and the owner. When we first arrived at the clinic which was 2hrs away from home Reece was a bit excited and did not want to pay very good attention to my instruction but in the next 10min. She settled down and began paying acute attention to me and she was very responsive. Russell helped point out some things I was doing that were causing Reece to get confused and may cause problems in the future when I begin to ride her or do more complex or delicate work with her. By the end of the two days Reece was being very respectful of my space and I could sit up on a fence and send her hind quarters around to make her parallel with the fence then back her off all the way to the end of the 14ft lead line. Russell also taught me how to collect have Reece give me lateral and vertical flections from the ground. She also began giving me vertical flections with a left and right shape.
While we were there I kept getting comments like ‘There is no way that is a Mustang!’ and ’Is that really a yearling? She is so well mannered.’ She made me very proud and I am really happy with the work I was able to get done with her.
For anyone in 4-H Russell Beatty is only charging $100 a day instead of $150. I highly recommend him and some of his clinics coming up in this area are:
Roy Wash on Tues, Weds & Thurs Sept 20, 21, & 22
Rainier on Tues, Weds, & Thurs Sept 27, 28, & 29
Renton which is for a weekend on Sat & Sun Oct 22 & 23rd.
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