Gawani pony boys "Of > Horses and Women" book with all those sickeningly smarmy photos of him > trying to look sensitive and romantic with his long hair and tight > jeans. Then I saw him in person and he knocked my socks off.
Yet a wonderful gaiting trainer friend said that he saw Phoneyboy and saw him do a lot of pointless rope swinging, didn't like what he was doing w/ the horses and felt like he wasn't any better than the next run-of-the-mill NH trainer. . Same with parelli. I like Parellit--I just don't care for his program--too expensive, too much my-way-or-the-highway attitude. > Liz Graves is the best clinician on the planet today. bar none. Yet I know someone into Icelandics who warned me that Liz Graves "encourages piggy-pace." So I guess it is really "to each his own"--whatever a speicific person can relate best to. Robyn
