Trail Rules – Everyone has rules!

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Ken, Hope and I rode a small portion of Lake Perry. Kansas, trails today.  I gave Ken my rules about trail riding.  It's gotta be 2 hours, It's got to be in the high 40's and There's gotta be flat land on which to go fast. He had great success with rules one and two.  We didn't have much flat land upon which to go fast. Oh well.  Other than the last part where we couldn't find a trail back to our trailers and we were lost for seemingly, hours - It was…

Nova’s Notebook – Gaiting Out on the Trail

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  Hope and I got to ride on the first crisp days of the Fall Weekend.  Hope's husband wondered if 50 degrees was going to be too cold for us to ride. ha! We are cowgirl trail riders (for a while yet..until it gets too cold for us) Here's Hope on Chip, a beautiful silver chocolate Rocky Mountain horse. Today, even the green alge was beautiful on one of the many lakes and ponds we ride by at James A. Reed park. We had a great time in the windy…

2010 World Celebration Highlight

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Versatility Vision – Ribbons and Patterns September 10th, 2010 | Author: Susan I’d just like to start out with how difficult do you think it is to pull a tire on the end of a long rope in a mixture of finly ground rock and sand after a Hurricane Hermoine dumped a million inches of rain in the area last night. I had no idea, either. Nova and I practiced pulling a barrel in an arena and a few lighter things on a gravel road. In no way were we…

JR’s Journal – Chris and JR in Parelli Spotlight

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Chris has Down's syndrome.  He also has a connection with animals. Chris and JR performed in Pat Parelli's Kansas City Celebration Spotlight events. They did "online".  JR was in tune with Chris.  JR was using everything he had to do what Chris wanted him to do.  Now and then Chris moved out of position which made it difficult for JR to do what Chris wanted.  He tried.  The audience held our breath...and then JR did it!  The audience erupted. Chris and JR performed like clouds on a dreamy day. They…

Velvet & Susan – Reserve Women and Horses Expo Versatility Winner

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Velvet and Susan - Versatility Challenge! View us on youtube! “Women and Horses Expo” in Sedalia is what I heard from another horse person. I found the web side and Whoa…a three day Versatility Challenge event! Versatility is my middle name, so I clicked on the link. and it seemed to have Susan and Velvet written all over it. The third day event was particularly interesting…free style! We each had 4 minutes to do our own thing on Sunday. Entertainment, costumes, and your own music was highly encouraged. That is…

Sue – How Do You Do with Friends?

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I set aside my fears tonight and it felt good. We got to ride outside in the big arena with dear good friends. That felt really good. We warmed up really good. We are trying to do the hill climbing that Linda Parelli recommends so that Sue will be better balanced. Sue gets to trot up and down a small hill.  She also got to jump over some logs. What a fine time she had. Our friends were in the arena. Our good friend Jane opened the gate for us.…