The following are pictures taken at the clinic held by Dr. Stan Allen at farm of Rob and Sara Park on the weekend of October 7th.  To those of you who are unfamiliar with Dr. Stan Allen's work, he uses horse training techniques that have been used for several generations of horse trainers in his family.

 

This is Dr. Stan snubbing Sid, Cindy Wood's Connemara/Thorobred 2 year old filly.   Mvc-004s.jpg (37011 bytes)

Cindy is now riding Sid

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This is Giselle in the round pen being snubbed.  Giselle is a 3 year old Dutch Warmblood/Hannoverian Filly that was used as the demonstration horse during the John Lyons Clinic held at Eden, Maryland in November 1999. 

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Sara Park snubbing Sim.  Sim is a yearling paint gelding-thorobred cross.

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The following several photos are a sequence of Bill's Horse being subjected to the double safety, a technique used by Dr. Stan to teach the horse submission.    

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This is Punky learning to be a circus horse.  We all predict that Mary will be riding in the hunt field and ask Punky to run thru his tricks such as telling his age and bowing to the hunt master and climbing up on his soap box

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The following sequence shows Punky learning to climb up on the soap box.

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SUCCESS!!!!!

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MARY RIDING PUNKY  - Was she having fun or what????????

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