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…

Celebration is Not For the Weak!

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Versatility Vision – What a Show Day September 7th, 2010 | Author: Susan Nova and I are one for three. She messed up one pattern and I messed up two. Already I forgot what happened in the fourth class. Read on… Showmanship…We were doing an outstanding job looking sexy. We were to the back-thru-cones, a piece of cake for us in our real life, but this is showlife with a show halter. We did good till I misjudged the cone path and things went out of control. Nova even screamed…

Nova’s Notebook – 1st Demonstration!

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About two weeks before the big Vaught Family Natural Horsemanship, Jenny asked if I was going to ride in the demonstration. Whoops!  I didn't know that Nova and I were going to be in the demonstration.  We had an assumption and non verbal communication. Now, it's something to be practicing all along for "being in the Spotlight" someday as opposed to actually having a date for a demonstration. Nova and I started to practice and the holes we had were just a bit glaring.  I had not practiced enough in…

Nova’s Notebook –

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 I lied all last week about riding every darn day... I rode last night and tonight in the group lesson. oh, it is heaven. We found our flat foot walk and fox trotted even around the corners. The last time, Jenny told me that Nova was so good it was time to stop. She didn't even want her going the reverse way because she did so good. Quit when you are really way ahead. We were going on the 2nd hour of the lesson. We trail walked, we cantered, we…