Cones…those orange things that lay around the perimeter of most any arena. We think of them as arena cone-litter. People with horses have invented a lot of things to do with cones. We do cone-weaving, cone-circles, cone-sidepassing. Some horses even have perfected cone-squishing and don’t forget cone-eating!<\/p>\n
In the versatility challenges, cones assume many a different role. Cones become cone-portant because they mark transition spots or patterns.<\/p>\n
In the last Pine Dell Natural Versatility Challenge, we had cones to mark the
\ntransition from walk to trot\/center and another cone to mark the transition back down to walk. Cones demand your respect in versatility challenges.
\nCone-portance demanded that the horse do the required transition exactly at the cone. In the first cone from walk to trot\/canter, when the horse’s front feet came to the cone, the trot\/canter was to happen. You need to know your horse for the cone-portant transitions. How many steps does it take your horse to start trotting\/cantering when you ask from a walk? How long does it take your horse to come down from a trot to a walk? The answer to that is when you start asking the horse to make the transition at the cone-portant!<\/p>\n
We have cones in every Pine Dell Versatility Challenge. Cone-portant will be
\nasking for transitions from slow trot to medium trot to fast trot in the next
\nversatility challenge. Gaited horses can do any gait faster than a walk and
\nslower than a canter demonstrating three different speeds.<\/p>\n
Feel the Power of the big Orange! Feel for your horse to make snappy
\ntransitions. It takes savvy horsemanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cones…those orange things that lay around the perimeter of most any arena. We think of them as arena cone-litter. People with horses have invented a lot of things to do with cones. We do cone-weaving, cone-circles, cone-sidepassing. Some horses even have perfected cone-squishing and don’t forget cone-eating! In the versatility challenges, cones assume many a different role. Cones become cone-portant because they mark transition spots or patterns. In the last Pine Dell Natural Versatility Challenge, we had cones to mark the transition from walk to trot\/center and another cone to…<\/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-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","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=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}