Karen Moulis asked me to help her out with Sheyna. Sheyna is a Missouri Fox Trotter mare that got to be owned by Pine Dell Farm when her owner couldn’t pay the board. Also Sheyna was too much horse for her green owner.\u00a0 We don’t think Sheyna was ever owned by anyone that understood her personality.<\/p>\n
Sheyna is a sensitive right brain extrovert. She wants badly to please her person.\u00a0 She’s never been taught about\u00a0slow speeds,\u00a0medium speeds and fast speeds.\u00a0 The answer for\u00a0her is to\u00a0fly into the wind!\u00a0 She knows nothing about transitions. \u00a0Her go is from standing to spinning out of control. Karen and her grandaughter Melissa had no idea what a gaited horse was supposed to feel like and that’s where I came in. \u00a0The three of us are combining the ground games and riding to help her learn to relax.\u00a0 We are trying to get her to understand slow, medium and fast.<\/p>\n
Riding Sheyna is a lot of fun. \u00a0When she tries to spin out of control, she can be brought right back down to slower and then stop and even back.<\/p>\n
This past Saturday, I rode her in a two plus hour clinic with Jenny Vaught. \u00a0I”ve been riding her in Karen’s Wednesday night group lesson and her progress has just been amazing.\u00a0 At the end of the nearly three hours of clinic, I was riding Sheyna on a loose rein.\u00a0 She was carrying her head down and relaxed. At the start, middle and near the end of the clinic, we were still in “go fast is the answer”\u00a0 When she finally relaxed and was happy to walk, I wanted to scream and punch the skies with happiness.\u00a0 Instead, my body was the poster child of relaxed muscles.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Melissa rode her on a trail ride with Velvet and I. Sheyna is not concerned, worried or scared of anything out there on the trail. \u00a0Plus she goes right straight thru mud and puddles. She has proved to be a great trail horse.\u00a0 Sheyna went\u00a0 into a nice fast smooth gait. Velvet and I had to work to keep up. When Velvet goes up into her top notch\u00a0fastest possible \u00a0fox trot gait, it’s just a little rough.\u00a0 We did that for about 3 miles off and on…good gadness!<\/p>\n
Half way thru the trail ride, we came upon a long flat field.\u00a0 I thought, why not.\u00a0 Melissa was telling me about how she loves to canter and gallop her Arabians.\u00a0 Hmph.\u00a0 Velvet and I started cantering through the field. The wind was in my face and I was having a great time.\u00a0 Melissa wasn’t screaming or anything.\u00a0 I could hear Sheyna’s hoofbeats right behind me. And then I heard\u00a0hoofbeats\u00a0\u00a0next to me and the next thing I knew, Sheyna and Melissa were screaming in the wind, in\u00a0an ever increasing lead!\u00a0 Wow! Velvet and I sped up, but I didn’t really want to gallop as fast as Roy and Trigger in the movies.\u00a0 I saw Sheyna and Melissa come the end of the field where the gravel road waits. Sheyna slowed right down and stopped.\u00a0 She was under perfect control. That’s a big wow!<\/p>\n
yee haw Sheyna!<\/p>\n
Melissa is now talking about being with the wind on a Missouri Fox Trotter.\u00a0 I was thinking about Aleve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karen Moulis asked me to help her out with Sheyna. Sheyna is a Missouri Fox Trotter mare that got to be owned by Pine Dell Farm when her owner couldn’t pay the board. Also Sheyna was too much horse for her green owner.\u00a0 We don’t think Sheyna was ever owned by anyone that understood her personality. Sheyna is a sensitive right brain extrovert. She wants badly to please her person.\u00a0 She’s never been taught about\u00a0slow speeds,\u00a0medium speeds and fast speeds.\u00a0 The answer for\u00a0her is to\u00a0fly into the wind!\u00a0 She knows…<\/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":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}