John Lyons
John Lyons is one of the most respected trainers around the world. He is known as “America’s Most Trusted Horseman” and he has earned that title through almost 29 years of dedication to horses and horse owners. His ideas and concepts in horse training have influenced every level of performance, every style of riding and every breed of horse throughout the world. His ideas and work have directly changed thousands of lives. John’s sincere regard for people and the horses they love has remained unchanged throughout his career.

John has been honored by many facets of the horse industry including universities, breed associations, horse clubs, magazines, cities and states for his contributions and dedication to the horse and the industry. John reaches out to people through The John Lyons’ Perfect Horse Magazine and has touched the lives of millions of people throughout the years.

John continues to be one of the most sought after trainers, speakers, demonstrators and clinicians in the United States and abroad. There is hardly an expo in the country or around the world where you will not find John, his children Josh and Brandi or one of their certified trainers as a guest clinician.

Thirteen years ago John developed his certified trainer program that has graduated almost 300 trainers. This program had grown to be one of the top programs in the country for producing great clinicians, trainers and teachers. Today, this training program is taught by one of the top trainers in the world, John’s son, Josh Lyons.
One of the sweetest girls in the world (according to John) and his love is his wife, Jody. They live and work in Parachute, Colorado on “Our Dream Ranch.” Their door is always open to everyone and you are invited to stop by anytime.

Stacy Westfall
Stacy Westfall developed her natural horsemanship techniques while advancing her horses for reining competition, with the goal to make reins unnecessary - literally. She succeeded, stunning the reining world by going undefeated for two straight years in major freestyle reining competitions. An AQHA and
NRHA Freestyle Reining Champion, she won twice riding bridle-less AND bareback. Her 2006 Championship ride, seen my millions on the internet, led to her appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show in 2008. Her proven training techniques made her the only woman to have won the Road to the Horse colt starting competition. This wife and mother of three now works to inspire and teach people how to build a better relationship with their horses, all the while continuing to train and compete.

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Stephen Bradley
Brought to you by Purina Mills

Stephen Bradley discovered the thrill of jumping at age 13 in Virginia hunt country and, soon thereafter, started participating in the local pony club. He decided to make a career of competitive eventing during college and started competing internationally in 1989.

Bradley won the Checkmate International CCI*** three years in a row in 1991, 1992 and 1993. In 1992, he also represented the United States at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, placing 10th in team competition. In 1993, Bradley became the second American in history to win Great Britain's prestigious Burghley CCI****, following in the footsteps of his mentor, Bruce Davidson, and he was named Equestrian Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Olympic Committee. In 1996, Bradley won the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event.

In 2003, Bradley was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. team at the Pan-American Championships. In 2004, he placed fifth at the Rolex CCI**** and was short-listed for that year's Olympics. In 2005, he won the Foxhall Cup CCI*** and the USET's Spring Three Star Championship and placed fourth in the advanced division at the American Eventing Championships. In 2006, Bradley placed third at the Rolex Kentucky three-day-event.

Bradley lives in his hometown of Leesburg, Va., where he runs his own training facility and teaches lessons. He continues to train and compete.

Richard's horsemanship and teaching skills have also proved to be a winning formula for reined cow horse non-pro clients as well. His most successful student brought home both National and Reserve World Championships from the 2007 and 2008 NRCHA World Show.

Richard has been a contributing writer to numerous equine publications and web sites. Richard's Horsemanship TV show can be seen Sunday's and Wednesday's at 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM (EST) on Dish Network, Channel 9411.

Kelly R. Vineyard, Ph.D.
Newberry , FL

Dr. Kelly Vineyard is a technical Equine Nutritionist for Purina Mills. Her responsibilities include supporting research efforts for new product development in addition to providing technical support for equine veterinarians, dealers, and customers. Dr. Vineyard earned her B.S. in Animal and Dairy Sciences from Auburn University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Animal Science from the University of Florida . Her doctorate research focused on the effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on immune function in horses, and she received the Innovative Research award presented at the 2006 American Society of Animal Science annual meeting for this work. While at the University of Florida , Dr. Vineyard lectured for numerous Equine Science courses and was actively involved with the Florida Equine Extension program. Dr. Vineyard is also a lifelong horsewoman with experience in a variety of disciplines, and she currently rides and competes in the sport of dressage with her Thoroughbred gelding Roman.

Tommy Garland
Before coming to notoriety as the equine industry's most popular up-and-coming clinician, Tommy Garland gained recognition as one of the country's best trainers and most successful showmen of Arabian and Half Arabian horses.

Tommy has ridden horses virtually all his life and credits his trainer father, also named Tommy, with much of his early learning about horsemanship. Tommy grew up under his father's tutelage training Quarter Horses, Saddlebreds, mules, walking horses and Arabians. "My father had a tremendous gift with horses, and I was lucky to be able to learn from him. He taught me to use patience and care, never to rush with a horse. Some people prefer to forget where they come from - I think about it every day," says Tommy.

In 1985, Tommy left the family training business to strike out training Arabians for Deep Meadow Farm in Waynesboro, VA. Arabians quickly became the center for the next 20 plus years of Garland's show career, which has included a multitude of national U.S., Brazilian and Canadian titles in Western Pleasure and Hunter Pleasure with Arabians and Half-Arabians. Not only has he achieved personal success but his amateurs, youth and adult alike, have acquired many National titles.

Ryan Gingerich
From visiting his grandfather's farm as a boy to his first job as an equine trail guide, it was obvious that Ryan had a special relationship with horses. His desire to make horses his life's work led him to complete a national horse training certification program and then to study with one of the worlds top equine behaviorists. With years of further study to develop his own training program, Connective Horsemanship , Ryan works at his National Equine Behavior Center and on his RFD-TV show, where he travels the country, helping owners and their behaviorally challenged horses. Ryan's combination of the latest in equine science and research with many traditional training methods allows him to rehabilitate even the worst of these misbehaving horses.

Eitan Beth-Helachmy

 After attending the University of Vienna in pre-veterinary medicine he came to the United State to pursue studies at the University of California at Davis . While in Vienna much time was spent observing at the Spanish Riding School .  There he watched, listened and absorbed.Once at the University of Davis he had to face the fact that what he really wanted to do was train horses. He began to work toward that goal, and at the same time that he was making in-roads into the American horse industry, he became a successful sculptor. Here he explored the artistic balance between form and function, a balance the philosophical horseman still finds relevant to bringing out the best in a horse. His western horses are easily recognizable because of their self carriage and elegant style, which he attributes to the use of dressage in his training program. He is still an artist at heart creating harmony, beauty and balance in his horses.

Tim Kimura

Tim was born and raised in Reedley, California 30 miles east of Fresno when in 1960 his Father Frank formed the Central Valley Saddle Club, and put on horse shows where Tim developed his course designing craft.

Tim has designed trail patterns for the AQHA World Show for over 14 years and has done the Paint World, the Appaloosa World, the Palomino World, along with the European Championship and the Canadian Nationals.

Tim loves to teach riders the art of managing his courses and the fundamentals of getting the most out of the "signal-response" affect when communicating to your horse. Join Tim as he discusses and demonstrates the basic of tackling the trail course.

Lydia Hiby
Lydia is the most sought after animal communicator around. Her childhood dream of becoming a fairy godmother to animals seems to have come true.

Her clients come from every state in the U.S. and European countries galore. People so different... yet sharing the love of their pet and their belief in Lydia's gift.

Her client list numbers over 60,000 over 20 years, and many began as skeptics. Lydia likes skeptics, she says, and believes that once she proves herself to a skeptic that skeptic becomes her best publicity. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the LA Times to name a few. Lydia has also co-authored a book recently, Conversations with Animals , detailing her experiences.

David Kaden
David Kaden is a clinician whose area of expertise is saddle fit. He travels the country doing saddle fitting clinics. His power point presentation covers the principals of diagnosing and solving saddle fit challenges. His knowledge is gained from years of research and testing with his computer pressure pad saddle fit analysis system. He has been a featured speaker with the Texas A&M Equine extension program, in addition to speaking at clubs and various equine events.

David is a versatile all round horseman who competes in the diverse sports of Jumping, endurance, and team roping. In addition to his saddle interest, David with his wife Tracy, owns and operates, Flight Leader Farm, a training center near El Paso Texas .

David formerly produced, and hosted "Horse Trails" TV program which was shown on RFD TV. He is two time National Endurance Champion, winning both IAHA, and AERC National endurance Championships. To help solve the saddle fit challenge David invented and patented the worlds only adjustable fit system that allows the saddle owner to easily adjust all three dimensions of saddle fit. Today his company Specialized Saddles, manufactures and sells all types of saddles utilizing his adjustable system.

Dr. Tom Tweeten
Dr. Tom Tweeten is a scientist with more than 40 years of experience in Analytical Chemistry. He has worked with industrial chemicals, personal care products, and human and animal nutrients to develop chemical testing procedures to insure product quality and integrity.

About thirteen years ago Dr. Tweeten and a couple of young entrepreneurs began developing a line of horse care grooming products. Since Dr. Tweeten is a horse owner and show competitor, he has worked to create products that are healthy and beneficial for his horses, while achieving the aesthetic results he wants. Dr. Tweeten's experiences enable him to focus on developing a way to properly prepare and groom a horse so that it is beneficial to the animal. Through his presentations you will learn effective grooming techniques that contribute to horse comfort and will help build communication and trust between you and your horse. He will also show what grooming tools you will want to include in your tack box to maintain a healthy appearance of your horse.

Dr. Tweeten grew up on a working horse farm in southeastern Minnesota . He returned to working with horses when his children were old enough to ride and enjoy them. Tom and his family own Tweeten Edgewood Stables, a small horse farm in Prior Lake , Minnesota . You can find grooming articles published by Dr. Tweeten on the ATH Science website. Listen to interviews with him on Speaking of Horses (www.speakingofhorses.com).

Carol Walker
Carol's passion for photography started at an early age, with animals as her favorite subjects. She studied literature and photography as an undergraduate at Smith College , and continued her education in photography after graduating, studying portraiture and nature photography. She has travelled all over the world photographing wildlife for the past 28 years. In 2000, Carol started her business Living Images by Carol Walker, specializing in photographing horses. Carol's images illuminate the relationship between horses and their people, as well showcase the beauty of horses with her stunning images of horses at liberty. She teaches workshops for amateur photographers on equine photography. Her commercial work includes catalogue covers for leaders in the Equine industry. She has had numerous calendars published featuring her work, and she markets her fine art prints from her website as well as in several locations on the Front Range of Colorado. Four years ago, Carol began photographing wild horses. As she followed several herds in Wyoming , Colorado and Montana , she became aware of how precarious their situation on public lands has become. Since then, she has dedicated herself to educating people with her photographs and stories about the wild horses. Her book Wild Hoofbeats: America's Vanishing Wild Horses is available at www.WildHoofbeats.com . The book was released winter of 2008 and is currently in its second printing.

Bonnie Davis
Bonnie Davis is a San Francisco Bay Area resident, freelance writer and equestrian trails advocate with over 30 years experience. Her stories, articles, and columns have been published in national and international publications such as Western Horseman, Paint Horse Journal, Horse & Horseman, Quarter Horse Journal, Western Side (Italy), Cascade Horseman, California Horse Review, Performance Horse Review, and San Jose Mercury News.

Muffy Seaton
Driving her Dartmoor pair of “Fleas”, Muffy has won every major Combined Driving Event in the East and in 1997 was invited to represent the United States at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in England where she placed third overall and was the highest placed American. She has been the USEF National Pony Champion 4 times, first with a four-in-hand and then with her pair. In 2005 she trained and qualified the single pony who won the gold medal at the World Pony Championships in England. She is now training and competing a new large pony, with the Pony World Championship as a goal. She and her husband, Doug, run a residential driving program from their farm in South Carolina open to any and all drivers and their horses to come and learn more about driving.

Tony Argento
Tony tells tales of the Cowboy like his Granddad did, the man who inspired him about "Cowboy Poetry."

He began reciting "Cowboy Poetry" in grade school in 1965 at age 5. His unique interpretation of the Cowboy way continues today. Tony refers to his style of reciting "Cowboy Poetry" as; "Tuned Up and Twisted!" Notable poems he recited are; "The Devil's Tail," by Gail Gardner learned at 5, "The Shootin' of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," by Robert W. Service by age 11. He admiringly acknowledges the writers of the poems he recites out of respect, and says, "I like the idea of continuing the poet's stories so others can enjoy them, too." He is very enthusiastic about what he does. Those who've seen Tony say it's obvious he truly enjoys sharin' his enthusiasm with the audience, incudin' the common statement," He's quite animated."

Tony's lineup includes ;( humor, classic, patriotic, rodeo, gunslingers and drifters, novelty, gold rush, serious verse & much more). He performs as a Cowboy Poet, humorist, story teller & entertainer. In addition, he does Civil War recitations such as; "the Gettysburg Address" & others including the most famous letter from the Civil War.

Tony considers himself an ambassador of "Cowboy Poetry." It's been around since the years following the Civil War. It's unique form continues to show the Cowboy & the American West is alive with stories and tales of elevated humor, patriotism & serious or sad verse. It's a great source of entertainment for the entire family. Tony says," Once you get a transfusion of "Cowboy Poetry" in your blood, you'll be hooked for life. That's what happened to me, and yes, it's very contagious."

Tony's Grandpa was a WWI Calvary scout. In July 1919, he entered the Salinas, Calif. Rodeo & was the1st to ride a Black Angus bull, takin'1st place & $500. In most cases he used an alias name. He competed at Madison Square Garden during the 1920's. Later, a Hollywood stunt rider for the western movie industry & good friend of Tom Mix. He cowboyed for Miller & Lux, Inc. (the largest private land owner & cattle operation in the U.S.)

Dawn Cooper
Dawn Cooper has been meeting the physical and emotional needs of horses and dogs for over thirty years. She began to dissect the relationship between poor behavior in horses and their correlation to pain with outstanding results. Referred by veterinarians throughout the country for rehabilitation and behavior training, she has spent many years working with top professionals in veterinary medicine, farrier science, chiropractic therapy, nutrition, and physiology as well as years of study in traditional Chinese medicine and holistic remedies. Today she heads up an international institute for holistic therapy: The Total Balance Method.

Dr. Sue Thompson
Dr. Sue Thompson is a California born and raised equestrian. She has participated in many disciplines over the years providing a varied background of experience to draw from. A graduate of Pacific Horse Center's Advanced Horsemastership program in 1975, she then went on to complete her Veterinary Medical degree from U.C. Davis in 1987. She is also trained as massage therapist for humans, at the National Holistic Institute in Oakland, CA. After practicing general small animal medicine in California she moved to the Caribbean where she had a small animal relief practice (worked for established veterinarians while they were on vacation) and a human massage therapy business where she worked closely with the local Doctors of Chiropractic.

In 2002 she was managing a private barn, teaching and training. Several of the horses were rescued rent stable hacks that had back and lameness problems. These issues would not resolve with traditional medical care. With the help of one of the Chiropractors she worked on these horses to relieve their problems. This experience was what drove Dr. Sue back to school in 2006 to study Animal Chiropractic at Options for Animals in Kansas.

Dr. Sue graduated from Options and past her exams for certification by the I.V.C.A. (International Veterinary Chiropractic Association) in 2007. She has since been practicing in CA and the Caribbean on horses and small animals using Chiropractic with great success. She now wants to share her experience with a larger audience a for the benefit of more horses.

Melissa Creswick
Horses captured me at a young age, starting with riding dude horses at Griffith Park as a young person. After some college I transferred to Pacific Coast Equestrian Research Farm for formal education with horses receiving a silver medal and a teaching certificate. I rode Western, Eventing and Hunter jumpers before founding Clovis Training Center (CTC) a Hunter Jumper and Dressage barn in Clovis , Ca. CTC was a show barn with 70 head of horses competing in Hunter Jumper and Dressage for 25 years. Dressage became my main focus in the beginning years of CTC. I have made my own Grand Prix FEI horses and am competing Intermediate-1 this year on Graceful Times. Graceful Times has been USEF Performance Horse Registry National Champion from training level thru FEI. Judging was a natural transition, I have USEF "S" in Dressage and "r" in Dressage Sport Horse Breeding. When doing clinics my goal is that every horse and rider can reach there potential with classical training principles, consistent logical training and keeping the goals fair.