I only worked with Picasso a short time. My work with him was the duration of a two-week period and most of it was in grooming and in-hand work. Our most significant focus was balance. He struggled performing any yield and was staggered in his everyday ability; walking side by side with him was clumsy.  Even with our little work, he began to stand upright, walk straight deliberately, and began moving off yields properly.

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Noticing a horse's temperament (as a breed and as an individual), adjusting a horse's stance with an understanding of their anatomy, and aligning their walking patterns are some of the first things that I focus on when I start a new horse. I am very quick to make changes and fixes to their physio-structures of movement and balance, or in a more healthy energetic case, break the horse in. Horses can develop on their own using how I train them in practice. Quickly with Picasso, and over time, when accompanied with ongoing training, produces a beautiful reflexed athlete. My horses get sculpted physically and athletically. My time with Picasso was short but his unbridled optimism was a billion inspiration.