Racinet Explains Baucher

Born in Paris 1929, Jean-Claude Racinet is a graduate of St. Cyr, the French West Point, Class of 1950. He was a member of the French contingent in Korea (1950-1953), where he was wounded twice. As an officer of the French army, he spent seven years in Tunisia and Algeria (1954-1961) and four more years in Europe.While he spent most of this army career during the time when the military was getting rid of theri horses, he managed between and during this sojuourns overseas, to...
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Born in Paris 1929, Jean-Claude Racinet is a graduate of St. Cyr, the French West Point, Class of 1950. He was a member of the French contingent in Korea (1950-1953), where he was wounded twice. As an officer of the French army, he spent seven years in Tunisia and Algeria (1954-1961) and four more years in Europe.While he spent most of this army career during the time when the military was getting rid of theri horses, he managed between and during this sojuourns overseas, to successfully attend the Superior Equitation Cours in the Cavalry School of Saumur (1953-1954), winning the title of Champion of tunisia in open jumping and to become a member of the Jumping Team of the Military School in Paris (1953).Riding teacher and trainer as a civilian after 1965, he was more particularly known by his retraining of difficult horse and later as a eqeestrian journalist by his always witty and sometimes scathing articles in the French equestrian monthly L'Information Hippique.In the United States since 1983, Racinet became a successful teacher, trainer, lecturer, clinician and author, Xenophon Press published his highly popular 'Another Horsemanship.'Jean-Claude Racinet has devoted his life to the vindication of the "L'equitation de Legerete" (riding in lightness), which fosters balance by relaxing the hourse - more so his mouth - excluding force in the wielding of the aids.