Bud Lyon: The First Ride on a Ranch Prospect
The Bud Lyon Method: Building Horses with a Plan
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Bud Lyon breaks down how he evaluates and transitions a young horse into the ranch classes, using a three-year-old filly that landed in his barn just days earlier.
She comes from a reining background. Her owner wanted to find out if she'd make a better ranch prospect than a reining one, and Lyon uses this literal first ride to walk through his process out loud. What he feels, what he's looking for, and how it all pertains to her future in the ranch pen.
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