Thursday Spring Show

June 7, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, NOVA, Velvet
Thursday is Ranch Horse Day! Open, Amateur and Youth all compete together. We are waiting for cutting results. Our most senior competitor, Sally Scott won. Our youngest competitor, Caitlyn on Atty, got second. Caitlyn has promised to help Tony and Jenny with their cutting horse skills! Roping was next and Jenny and Raffle won 1st. Tony and Nova got 2nd! Working Cow was won by Sally Scott. Tony Vaught and Nova got 2nd! Tony and Nova win the National Ranch Horse Championship! Big Win Vaught family had a great day.…

Wednesday Spring Show

June 6, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, NOVA, Velvet
Caitlyn and Attu prepare for Showmanship. It's Showtime for Nichole and Velvet Nichole got second in Youth Showmanship and Caitlyn got 5th Nichole Copple and Velvet win a big first in Youth Western Pleasure! Jenny and Raffle won first in Open Western Horsemanship. It was a big class. Nichole and Velvet won 1st in Youth Western Pleasure. Caitlyn got 3rd! YeeHaw! Open Reining: Tony and Nova 1st, Jenny and Velvet 3rd, Jenny and Raffle won third. This was a big class and big wins. Youth Reining. Nichole and Velvet won…

Tuesday-Spring Show

June 5, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, NOVA, Velvet
No problem drive from home to Ava. That's what happens when you don't have a horse in the trailer. No breakdown guarantee! I stopped at Gordon's Feed Store off 60 Hwy east of Springfield. Bob is the new owner of the store. He apologized for not getting the big sign to say Welcome Fox Trotters. Store is very nice and well managed inside. When he was loading Nova's feed into the trailer he said, Country Frank, and then apologized for being too presumptive. Country Frank!, I said. I'm riding the…

Show Horse Day

April 30, 2012Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter, NOVA, Velvet
What did Lucky Star think about the clinic and horse show?  Lucky Star recounts his first Horse Show  Story: "It was an adventure! My good friend Sheyna came to stay with me in the barn the might before the clinic and rode in the trailer with me to the clinic. That was fun.  I like Sheyna. When I got there, I got to eat green grass.  That trailer parking lot was plush grass.  I liked that a lot too. After a while who shows up and parks right behind me? …

Times Change – Old Times become New Times Again

September 23, 2011Posted inNOVA, Sage, Velvet
Sage was the first horse.  I learned a lot from her. We came from negative 7 to passing the Parelli original level 2 test. The original level 2 task list was so difficult and complex, I had no idea what the tasks were...after I read them.  I put the test away and just continued my lessons with Jenny Vaught.  Years later, we passed all the tasks. During the long years it took to get my horses to do four consecutive flying lead changes, I switched over to doing the L2…

2011 Missouri Fox Trotter World Celebration BLOG

September 23, 2011Posted inNOVA, Velvet
These are all the stories I posted in the Missouri Fox Trotter World Celebration 2011:  They will stay on the web site until we are ready to hit the 2012 World Celebration and then I lose them.  Here they are from: http://www.mfthba.com/blog/category/susan-engle/   Reflections and Stories September 14th, 2011 | Author: Susan Nova has improved quite a bit over last year. This year I caught on to the need for slow and steady, quiet hands, the head position that has her gaiting the best and my communication between her and…