This is Capote – Session One: Fixing a Tense Lusitano. A Beautiful Horse.

[Who should be famous—but isn’t yet.]

A lovely Lusitano, waylaid by ambition.Two trainers, one ordinary day.And the decision to rebuild—on camera, in This is Capote – Session One: A Stunning Lusitano full view.

Fixing a Tense Lusitana. This is Capote – Session One: A beautiful horse.

This is Capote. A beautiful, quiet horse stands still in the arena—meek, breathtaking, and unaware of his own presence. But behind that softness is a mind carrying the stress of too much, too soon. His story isn’t unusual: early brilliance, misunderstood talent, and pressure applied without understanding.

He was pushed instead of ridden.

Displayed instead of developed.

Misunderstood—until he got to Jim.

Jane and Jim are two trainers who work together regularly. Most days are focused on the competition horses. But this morning, Jane meets Capote for the first time. And somewhere in this ordinary session, a decision begins to take shape:

What if this horse could be seen—not for what he was pushed to be, but for what he truly is?And what if we did it by following only the true, tested ways of riding—the ones the masters established by reason and justified by experience?

That is the work being done here. Not shortcuts. Not speculation.

Not posed. Not performing. Just waiting—and finally heard.  (This is Capote – Session One)

Obedience to the true ways of riding.

🔍 What you’re watching:

• Real-time decisions, not rehearsals

  
  

• Looseness in the mind and body installed as the default in the gymnastic way-of-going

• Tension and worry replaced not with desensitization, but with certainty, softness, and sequence

  
  

• His sensitivity nurtured, not dulled

  
  

• A horse rebuilt with clarity and faith, not intensity and spectacle

  
  
  
  

Bibliography of HORSE TRAINING

Every training action seen here is grounded in:

• Saumur

• Warendorf

• Tor di Quinto

• Strömsholm

• Ft. Riley

• Vienna’s Spanish Riding School

• The Iberian Vaquero tradition

• Podhajsky (pp. 108–130)

• Major Lindgren (pp. 46–54)

• Steinbrecht’s Gymnasium of the Horse (pp. 34–35)

• Saumur & Ft. Riley, Section 27

• Class 103: The 4 Events (demonstrated + dissected)

  
  
  
  

This isn’t “inspired by” classical training.It is classical training—followed line for line.

🔁 Continue the Series

➡️ Read Session Two: He is Innocent →(Replace # with the actual blog URL once published.)

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