I remain touched by and grateful for Leslie’s decision to offer and support such opportunities for enrichment. She has influenced just about everything I bring to handling horses and riding today.

Riding Calle was indeed pivotal. Calle showed me Leslie’s way, and the scintillating, true feel of a horse, with mind and athletic capacities released to you. There was really no going back after experiencing that unmistakable feel of genuine, accessible lightness and heart.

As I adjusted to her, Calle also opened up a whole new world of precision and lightness in me, as a rider, to develop and take to the horses I encounter and to my students.

She is quite something, that Calle.