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America. As she learned more about these equines’ personalities and abilities, she began to develop her own training program utilizing her own observations and her background in behavior modification. Over the next ten years, guided by the resistance-free training techniques of Richard Shrake and merging the knowledge of many other trainers from multiple equestrian disciplines (such as Major Anders Lindgren in
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William Lewis and Joyce Steele Doty (née Halverson, formerly Lewis), mule breeder and developer of the first "quality" mules in the United States. In 1951, her mother, having divorced Lewis, married
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in Bishop, California. He then became the World Champion 3rd level Dressage Mule in 1992, and again in 1993, while working at home at 4th Level Dressage.
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