2013 Celebration High Point and World Grand Champion Winners

September 7, 2013Posted inCaitlyn Vaught, Jennifer Vaught, Missouri Fox Trotter, Nichole Copple, NOVA, Powder, Tony Vaught, Velvet
VERSATILITY OVERALL PLACINGS Youth Versatility: Pleasure & Speed High Point: Toddy's Velvet Perfection; Nichole Copple for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill Mo Working Horse High Point: Co-High points Toddy's Velvet Perfection, Nichole Copple for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill MO Nathan's Ovation, Caitlyn Vaught for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill MO Youth Versatility World Grand Champion Toddy's Velvet Perfection, Nichole Copple, Fair Play Mo for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill Mo Youth Versatility Reserve Wold Grand Champion Playboy's Lookie Here Now, McKenna Flory, Wallsburg UT for…

Bless the Cantle and Pommel

June 29, 2013Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Western saddles have a seat defined by the cantle and the pommel.  The cantle is the owner of the saddle horn.  The pommel is the owner of the back of the seat.  When you swing a leg over your horse to sit on a western saddle, the pommel and cantle gently guide your seat into the correct position on the saddle.  "Plop" and you are seated where you are meant to be. Today, Lucky Star and I borrowed a dressage saddle.  Dressage saddles have no saddle horn.  That's what I…

Velvet and Nichole Take on Everyone

June 9, 2013Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, Velvet
Velvet and Nichole won the garland in the youth Versatility Spring Show.  I clapped and cheered all the way through the blue and one red ribbon! Ranch Horse Day was a surprise.  This year the Ranch Horse classes just had one classification...Open.  Open means professional horse trainers and everyone else can participate.  Nichole is 17.  She was in Ranch horse events competing against her mom, step father, younger sister and a host of other adult riders.Points are accrued based on the placing of the horse/rider and how many riders competed…

Ava-Day One a Huge Success

June 5, 2013Posted inJennifer Vaught, Missouri Fox Trotter, NOVA, Powder, Susan FoxTrotter-book title in Amazon, Velvet
Day one, Showmanship started the day off right!  Jenny and Nichole won the open and youth showmanship classes!  Nova and Velvet were in show horse success mode. Tony and Powder joined in the next events and the ribbon sunumi started.  The Vaught family flooded me with ribbons.  Blue was the main color.  In the youth events, Nichole and Velvet mostly won the blue ribbon followed by  sister Caitlyn riding Attu.  In the open events Jenny got most of the blue ribbons with Powder and Tony getting many second place ribbons…

Ava Pre-Day

June 4, 2013Posted inJennifer Vaught, Missouri Fox Trotter, NOVA, Powder, Susan FoxTrotter-book title in Amazon, Velvet
Two hundred miles flew by and I entered the time zone known as Ava!  The golf cart guy met me at the entrance.  I found Nova, Powder and Velvet and the Vaught family.  Life is good.  I beat a lot of people here.  There are still parking spaces available if you want to run on down to Ava! We had fun times at the office getting everyone signed up and ready to go tomorrow.  Everything went smooth as silk.  Everyone has numbers and even better, safety pins to attach the…

Lucky the Drill Team Leader

June 1, 2013Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Three of us fox trotter people in the group lesson were assigned to ride three abreast...noses lined up.  We were instructed to go at a flat foot walk.  Well that is fine and good, but on the arena corners, some of us were walking and others were going much faster.  On the straight-away, some of us had to fox trot to keep up.  Lucky was doing a fine fox walk...a little faster than a flat foot walk and not quite a full fox trot. Finally the rules were explained to…