{"id":1132,"date":"2010-10-21T18:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2010-10-21T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T00:41:50","slug":"sage-the-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/sage-the-brave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage the Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1133\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1133\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/10\/sage-the-brave\/sage_james-a-reed_-5-08\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1133\" title=\"Sage_James A Reed_-5-08\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_James-A-Reed_-5-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage - Trail Ride 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sage the Brave ready to be saddled for a trail ride.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a sturdy girl. My son will ride her on this day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1138\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1138\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/10\/sage-the-brave\/sage_rachel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1138\" title=\"Sage_Rachel\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Rachel-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Rachel-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Rachel.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage and Rachel - Love Riding Bareback<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rachel&#8217;s favorite horse, Sage. Rachel leased Sage during the summers at Pine Dell.\u00a0 They both had a great great time!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1146\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1146\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/10\/sage-the-brave\/nathan_sage_jr_susan_onthetrail_05-08\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1146\" title=\"Nathan_Sage_JR_Susan_onthetrail_05-08\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Nathan_Sage_JR_Susan_onthetrail_05-08-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Nathan_Sage_JR_Susan_onthetrail_05-08-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Nathan_Sage_JR_Susan_onthetrail_05-08-282x400.jpg 282w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Nathan_Sage_JR_Susan_onthetrail_05-08.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the Trail - 2008 trail ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1149\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1149\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/10\/sage-the-brave\/kodakabout15minutesoldcrawlstomom\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1149\" title=\"Kodak+about+15+minutes+old+crawls+to+mom\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Kodak+about+15+minutes+old+crawls+to+mom-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Kodak+about+15+minutes+old+crawls+to+mom-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Kodak+about+15+minutes+old+crawls+to+mom-280x400.jpg 280w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Kodak+about+15+minutes+old+crawls+to+mom.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage&#39;s foal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sage takes care of all the young horses and the horses that need a friend. She is the dominant horse who takes in those in need.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a great friend and protector to many many a horse. She&#8217;s a great mommy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1156\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1156\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/10\/sage-the-brave\/susan_getting_on_jr-nathan_sage\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1156\" title=\"Susan_getting_on_JR-Nathan_Sage\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Susan_getting_on_JR-Nathan_Sage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan and Sage wait for rider to mount - Susan and JR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0Sage the Brave is what she earned as a nickname.\u00a0 Sage and I passed the original Level 2 in the Parelli Levels Program.\u00a0 It had many many difficult tasks in liberty, online, freestyle and refinement.\u00a0 The most difficult task for us was four flying lead changes&#8230;two each direction.\u00a0 Sage did it and we passed!\u00a0 She was the first fox trotter to pass the original level 2 test.<\/p>\n<p>We studied with Linda Parelli in the early years at Pagosa Springs, Colorado. We took a level 2 course with Linda Parelli as our instructor. Wowsa on this!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1159\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1159\" href=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010\/10\/sage-the-brave\/sage_sparkles_isc_colorado\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1159\" title=\"Sage_Sparkles_ISC_Colorado\" src=\"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Sparkles_ISC_Colorado-350x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Sparkles_ISC_Colorado-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Sparkles_ISC_Colorado-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sage_Sparkles_ISC_Colorado.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage -Level 2 with Linda Parelli - Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is what Sage looked like as a three year old. We went to Pagosa Springs to study with Linda Parelli. We took a level 2 course with Linda Parelli.\u00a0 What times we had!\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking this is the ISC in 1996.\u00a0 It&#8217;s changed a lot since then. Sparkles is in the pen next to us.\u00a0\u00a0Sparkles is forever owned by our dear friend, Lanie who has now graduated to horseman&#8217;s heaven.<\/p>\n<p>I have more pictures of Sage and our times on an old web page. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/mo2\/fxtrt\/\">SusanFxtrt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage the Brave ready to be saddled for a trail ride.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a sturdy girl. My son will ride her on this day. Here&#8217;s Rachel&#8217;s favorite horse, Sage. Rachel leased Sage during the summers at Pine Dell.\u00a0 They both had a great great time! Sage takes care of all the young horses and the horses that need a friend. She is the dominant horse who takes in those in need.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a great friend and protector to many many a horse. She&#8217;s a great mommy. \u00a0Sage the Brave is what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}