{"id":1211,"date":"2010-10-30T19:57:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T00:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2010-10-30T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T01:06:01","slug":"2010-pine-dell-farm-versatility-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2010-pine-dell-farm-versatility-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Pine Dell Farm Versatility Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pine Dell Farm 2010 Versatility Challenges<\/p>\n

Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion awards in the foreground donated by Pat Harris of No-Frills Embroidery<\/p>\n

left to right:\u00a0 Karen Moulins, Pine Dell Farm owner and Challenge committee; Susan Engle, judge and Challenge committee; Belle; \u00a0Roger Emile, Grand Champion; Hope Robinson, challenge committe; \u00a0Jewel; \u00a0Patty Miller, Reserve Grand Champion<\/p>\n

I had a grand idea in 2009 and that was to have Versatility Challenges at Pine Dell Farm.\u00a0 This is our second year and we added a High Point Championand Reserve Champion\u00a0to the mix.<\/p>\n

Boy, we had fun. I was especially pleased that no one grumbled at the judge.\u00a0 Karen, Hope and I would meet before each challenge and come up with our contest.\u00a0 Karen brought 20 years experience teaching natural horsemanship (including me as a beginner), I brought actual versatility competition experience and my original\u00a0Parelli level 3 experience, Hope brought planning, publicity and years of exerience with natural horsemanship to the table.\u00a0We\u00a0would come up with our plan and Karen tested it out on real life students. Some of our ideas didn’t work in real life and had to be modified.\u00a0You don’t get much better than this!<\/p>\n

Today was our last Versatility Challenge along with our year end Halloween\u00a0costume class<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boy, we had fun!\u00a0 My memories are going to be of some of the horses at the beginning of these events and how much they improved.\u00a0 I’ll remember Roger and how smooth a rider and the partnership he has with Belle.\u00a0 Roger rode most of the classes bareback.\u00a0 I’ll remember Patty and Jewel as Patty and Jewel were in group lessons with Jenny that started back in the mid-90’s.\u00a0 Patty and I lived thru some experiences during our group lessons and I am thrilled that she and Jewel are still going strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We had some amazing moments of advanced horsemanship during these events.\u00a0 We the audience kept being amazed at what we were seeing.\u00a0 It’s natural horsemanship- principles to purpose!<\/p>\n

Next year we are going to have two Fun Shows with a “real judge” and have stuff like Western Pleasure and lo’s of fun classes for kids and adults.\u00a0 I’ll get to participate in those.\u00a0 We are going to have two Versatility Challenges and I still get to be the judge!<\/p>\n

Stay Tuned for next year’s agenda at Pine Dell Farm<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Pine Dell Farm 2010 Versatility Challenges Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion awards in the foreground donated by Pat Harris of No-Frills Embroidery left to right:\u00a0 Karen Moulins, Pine Dell Farm owner and Challenge committee; Susan Engle, judge and Challenge committee; Belle; \u00a0Roger Emile, Grand Champion; Hope Robinson, challenge committe; \u00a0Jewel; \u00a0Patty Miller, Reserve Grand Champion I had a grand idea in 2009 and that was to have Versatility Challenges at Pine Dell Farm.\u00a0 This is our second year and we added a High Point Championand Reserve Champion\u00a0to the mix.…<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}