Reining & Ranch Riding: Can you do both?
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Bud Lyon
Bud Lyon began his life with horses in the California 4-H and Open show circuits. He followed the college path at CalPoly University and upon graduation went to work for Randy Paul to see if he could make a career out of training horses.
Now, multiple AQHA World Championships later, you might get him to admit that he makes a pretty decent horse trainer. In addition to his World Championships, Bud has earned spots in the Level 4 finals of all major NRHA events and won the Level 2 at the NRBC.
He and his wife, Kim, live in Whitesboro, TX, where he trains reining and ranch horses and teaches amateurs and Non Pros how to excel in either or both disciplines.
Bud shares his viewpoint on being successful in multiple disciples and how branching out can benefit you and your horse.
- Improve your horsemanship
- Develop better feel and timing
- Get comfortable with speed
- Let your horse decompress
- Keep your reiner from anticipating
- Increase showing longevity
He also addresses several common misconceptions.
- Teaching your reiner to trot will cause more breaks of gait in reining
- You have to take sliders off to do the ranch riding
- Ranch riding isn’t as challenging as reining
- Your horse can’t learn to do both because event styles differ too much
The fundamentals needed to perform well are the same: collection, softness, forward movement. “A well broke horse is a well broke horse.”
THE INTERVIEW
YOUR REINERSTOP TV HOSTS
SHELEY BRIEN
ReinerStop Founder, boutique reining breeder, 2020 Non Pro top 20 Competitor, Mom, Wife, Sales Professional
CHELSEA DYGERT SUTTON
ReinerStop partner, CEO of ConsultMent Marketing Agency, NRHA Announcer