Lou Otto began riding horses at 9 years old at his uncle's racing thoroughbred farm in Hollywood, FL. His uncle put him on a 2 year old stallion and said if he came back on the horse his uncle would teach him to ride.

Subsequent summers were spent learning horses from Uncle Roan and from his Aunt Louise, a Creek Indian with an uncanny ability to relate to horses.

In subsequent years he ran a pony day camp and training program in California, putting over 1000 children through the camp program and training championship gymkhana riders.

In 1994 he moved to the Denver area and continued training, clinics and riding lessons using a relationship based process.

 

His techniques result in a cooperative, williing horse - and isn't that what we all want?