Bud Lyon: Testing the Flying Lead Change
The Bud Lyon Method: Building Horses with a Plan
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Bud Lyon test drives the flying lead change on the three-year-old reining filly to see what he's working with, since he'd rather save the simple change for emergencies. What he finds surprises him: the right-to-left change is the sticky one, where she wants to cheat through her body instead of lifting and changing underneath him, even though her side pass suggested the opposite. It's one more piece of the baseline as he figures out how much work lies ahead.
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