she can be brutally honest. But if you think about what she is saying then she is very loving about it. She was wonderful to me because when she told me something I did not take offense. but one man kept arguing with her about why he needed spurs. If you watch, every time she tells someone something it is so absolutely true. Every time he spurred that horse she would jump out of her skin and he woould say she was "spooky" and Liz would tell him over and over he did not need those spurs and he would just argue with her and it was ridiculous. With me, i was riding traveller and she would scold "why havent you trained that horse! He is too good a horse not to train!" and we had just been ponying him behind Jaspar all his life or anytime we rode he would just follow jaspar, is naturally not spooky and calm, gentle, sweet, so we thought he was trained but he did not even know how to steer or whoa or go. Can you imagine?? She died laughing when she realized he didnt know whoa. but us backyard trainers, we make mistakes and dont even know it... With Trausti, any time he gets upset about anything, if you just say whoa, it puts him in such an automatic response that he will stop dead, and think about things and then is fine. most people train whoa first thing. haha. not me! I had just trained him and stonewall they didnt have to whoa unless they ran into jaspars rear end. thats how we do it here at the FCPA training program. Janice
-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
