Roberts, whose training style inspired a book and movie, brings one of his top pupils to Hollywood Park

By Diane Pucin, LA Times Staff Writer, June 11, 2004

Monty Roberts was 4, or maybe it was 5, when he figured out that with the blink of an eye, a twist of the shoulder, a flutter of the hand, he could make a horse do things. He could make a horse follow him or calm down or allow a saddle to be thrown on its back.

“I don’t call myself a horse whisperer,” Roberts said. “Other people have. But I don’t whisper. I communicate with a horse in the language of the horse.” (more…)