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SEPTEMBER 2006 • VOLUME 13 • © Copyright HORSES For LIFE™ Publications
Who is Frank Grelo?
If you go to his website, you will read that Frank Grelo was born in
Portugal
, the son of a cavalry man and master blacksmith. He has spent his entire life closely associated with horses, and trained in
Portugal
and
France
before meeting the legendary Nuno Oliveira, who coincidentally, lived only forty miles from Frank’s hometown in
Portugal
. For a number of years, Frank rode under the instruction of Oliveira and learned much about the ancient art of Classical Dressage. In 1971, Frank immigrated to
Canada,
where finally in 1978, he founded
Cedar
Mills
Classical
Riding
School
in
Bolton
,
Ontario
.
But the sum and range of the horseman that is Frank Grelo is so much more than this. A man who not only likes to play with piaffe and passage, Frank goes beyond, playing with levade, pesade, courbette.
This is a horseman who provides something that is just too rarely seen today: a stable where true school horses are available, ready to show you the skills, the feels, the touch that you require to begin on the journey that Frank himself is on. Many of his school horses are stallions, which he thinks nothing of, using them together in lessons at his school.
Frank provides riding with something very special. More than just his knowledge of horses, he brings a joie de vivre so rarely seen today. He plays with his horses and challenges himself and them. Ready at a moment's notice to demonstrate Spanish Walk or Piaffe, to dress up in the national Portuguese outfit, or perhaps ride bareback with a string in the horse’s mouth, or today he might dress up as Zorro, brandishing his sword while his black horse dances around the fire. It is this that makes Frank so unique.
Picture from the Frank Grelo Video by Mary Lucky
Frank is not shy to play with any of the movements, believing that "learning the 'advanced' movements helps horses improve lower exercises. The piaffe helps develop the trot. The travers and shoulder-in help the horse go straight. Riding the shoulder-fore in the canter corrects a hind end that is carried to the inside."
“You are, in reality, not teaching anything to your horse because everything is already in there. You are learning from your horse.”
Frank believes that the relationship that you have with your horse is the first thing that you should be concerned about, saying:
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