How We Started Young Horses Years Ago

is still the same way that we do today.

The difference is that today I do not have Lido to help any more.

Lido was born with cerebral palsy and had nearly no use of his right arm and his right leg was weak. He worked hard and made the left half of his body stronger than most high school athletes. He understood horses and he understood how to encourage young people and adults to put their fears behind them and mount up.

When he and I picked up up this mare there was a teen age girl older than Lido there who expressed a desire to ride but was afraid to try. There was another horse there that was dead broke. I was not in on the conversation, but I later learned that Lido told her that if she would get on the tame horse he would get on this mare, who had never had a rider.

She got on the tame one and Lido got on this mare, bareback after calming her down.

Don't know when these pictures were taken. Lido was probably about 15. He died in a hunting accident when he was 17 and his legacy continues to encourage people to master their fears and mount up.