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Buck Brannaman at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.. Dan M. "Buck" Brannaman (born January 29, 1962) [1] is an American horse trainer and a leading clinician with a philosophy of handling horses based on classical concepts from the vaquero tradition; working with the horse's nature, using an understanding of how horses think and communicate to train the horse to accept humans and work ...
Buck was conceived, directed, and produced by Cindy Meehl. This is her first film. As Meehl watched Brannaman at one of his clinics in Pennsylvania, she thought, "Everyone should know this. Everyone should know the way he teaches". [2] Ultimately, she worked up the courage to ask Brannaman if he would be interested in making a film about his ...
While Dorrance avoided media attention and clinics, by the mid-1970s, Hunt was giving clinics far and wide. Ray Hunt is famous for starting each clinic with the statement, "I'm here for the horse, to help him get a better deal." He also liked to say, "Make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy."
Meehl took one of her troubled horses to a Buck Brannaman clinic in Pennsylvania. As Meehl watched Brannaman lead the clinic, she thought "Everyone should know this. Everyone should know the way he teaches." [2] Ultimately, she worked up the courage to ask Brannaman if he would be interested in making a film about his methods.
They had a particularly strong influence on fellow horseman Ray Hunt and Hunt's disciple, Buck Brannaman, as well as Arabian horse breeder and trainer Sheila Varian. Many horse trainers and owners claim influence from the Dorrance brothers including Pat Parelli, famous for his video series of games to play through groundwork.
Buck Brannaman (real name Dan M. Brannaman, born 1962), named by Nicholas Evans as the primary inspiration for his book The Horse Whisperer; Monty Roberts (real name Marvin Earl Roberts, born 1935, American horse trainer and subject of a BBC/PBS documentary The Real Horse Whisperer; Daniel "Horse-Whisperer" Sullivan (died 1810), an Irish horse ...
The clinic in Wise, Virginia, was recently recognized as the nation's largest pop-up free clinic. [4] The 2017 clinic in Wise hosted over 1,000 volunteers and served 2,300 men and women. [5] RAM completed its 900th clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2018, and its 1,000th clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2019.
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging [1] is an independent biomedical research institute that researches aging and age-related disease. [2] The mission of the Buck Institute is to extend the healthy years of life. The Buck Institute is one of nine centers for aging research of the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. [3]