Photo iJy II~( lAol HONZA & GASTON Honza: Level 3 "Refinement" Graduate (Czech Republic) "/started riding at eight-years­ Gaston [7-year-old Czech Warmblood x Russian Must.angJ old at a riding facility Western riding tour- on the shoulder to get the feed she person there. At this clinic I laid in Cuchoslova/lia. nament. I took my was giving the chickens. He threat­ Gaston down, circled him at liber­ ''V\lhen The Berlin backpack, a sleeping ened my mother at the front door... ty and backed him into a trailer. Wall' came down in bag and food for Everyone was scared of him. One day in class the instructor 1989, the facilities Gaston. The tourna­ "My Director, who is a friend of came to me and said 'Honza, you became privatized ~ ment was 30 miles my Father's, said I could bring are already Level 1. .. and more" and riding became ok- from my house and Gaston to the school because he "After that I started the Parelli too costly. ~ 1had no trailer. After wanted to keep my family alive. Level 2 'Harmony' program, and in "At 16, after four five miles of riding I kept Gaston at the Children's May 2000 [ sent my Level 2 video years away from horses, 1 started in a big shank bit, Gaston did Hippotherapy Facility. Things there tasks to a Parelli Instructor and looking for people who had horses not want to go anymore, so I got did not go well either, until two passed. In August I went to a Parelli but weren't using them. I cleaned off and dragged him the rest of months later when one of Pat Level 3 'Refinement' Camp, and in stalls in exchange for riding. the way. Parelli's instructors presented a March 2001 I passed my Level 3. "I wanted my own horse - any "I arrived late at night, and the Levell 'Partnership Clinic! It said "My goal now is to find four un­ horse - it didn't matter. Finally, at stallion in Gaston came alive. He 'no stallions' so I went alone. started, 3-year-old Arabian geldings 19, I bought my first horse, Gaston, climbed his stall, he wouldn't eat, "The instructor gave a demon­ and take each of them to Level 3!" a three-year-old stallion. His father and he tried to breed other horses stration with his Level 3 horse and (Pat Parelli has invited Honza was a Czech Warmblood, his through the fence. A man who saw right then 1 knew I had to study and Gaston to be pllrt of the "USA mother a Russian Mustang. the problems 1was having said he this system. 1 never knew such Savvy Team" on the 2002 Success had seen Pat Parelli in Holland and things were possible with horses. "It took three of us to push with Horses Tour. Don't miss it!) Gaston into the trailer. And after that 1needed to go learn from Pat. "After gelding Gaston, [ practiced one mile of driving, we stopped to "I then went to work at a hand i- every day what 1 learned at this Many people start Pat Parelli's Savvy look at him. He had climbed under capped children's school for my clinic, as well as some of the things System £0 learn how to overcome a the front bar in the trailer and was Alternative Military Service. I asked 1 had seen the instructor do with problem or resistance, and how £0 stuck. We had to take the trailer my father and sister to ride and his own horse. I saw much progress stay safe around horses. But as they look after Gaston, but it did not go and for the very first time I started apart to release him. learn to solve these resistances, they "I let him stand in the pasture at well. Every week someone ~ll.AL to have fun with Gaston. experience a whole new level of horse­ home for the first two days, then I would fall off. My father i!" "One year later I took manship and find themselves doing put a bridle on him to ride, but 1 broke his arm. One Gaston to a Parelli Levell more with their horses than they could not stop him. So, I pointed morning Gaston reared clinic, thinking 1 was ever dreamed possible. To discover him toward the top of a big hill ­ up and struck my sister going to be the worst your true potential with horses, call even at the top it took some time 1-800-642-3335 or 970-731-9400 before he stopped - but I didn't fall Learn the Secrets to Success with Horses ... (Canada 1-877-PARELLJ) for your off, so that was good. USA. AUSTRALIA· CAN/IDA· rRANCE· GERMANY free Parelli Natural Horse·Man·Ship "One day I wanted to go to a SWITZERI.AND· UNI rED KINGDOM brochure or visitlVww.parelli.colll. .