{"id":1876,"date":"2012-03-26T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2012-04-04T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:46:51","slug":"lucky-star-and-susan-first-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/lucky-star-and-susan-first-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Star and Susan First Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a five day Natural Solutions Horse Camp with Tony and Jenny Vaught <\/a>on 3\/26 thru 3\/30.\u00a0 We did groundskill tasks in the morning and in the afternoon, we were ready to ride. Gulp.\u00a0 Although I wasn’t nervous about riding Lucky Star for the first time, I was nervous.\u00a0 There was nothing to worry about, but it was my first time to ride him.\u00a0 I just wanted to get the first ride started and feel comfortable. After I get that “comfortable feeling” on a new horse, I’m ready to ride.<\/p>\n

An uncomfortable feeling would be to feel the horse’s nervousness or sudden bursts of unasked for movement.\u00a0 I knew Lucky Star is a low-key, calm horse that doesn’t particularly care to move unless it’s his idea.<\/p>\n

I saddled him up.\u00a0 Thankfully, I had purchased a shorter length girth, but it was very close to being to big for him.\u00a0 Lucky Star needs a 28″ girth. The 30″ girth almost touches the saddle in length.\u00a0 eeek<\/p>\n

Jenny came over and hopped on Lucky Star.\u00a0 That always makes me feel much better.\u00a0 He’s relaxed, calm and moves slowly when asked. That was delightful to watch.<\/p>\n

I got on him and sat for a few seconds. We slowly walked off.\u00a0 It took me about 30 seconds to get comfortable and then I asked for speed. We went right up into a flat foot walk and a fox trot.<\/p>\n

ooooo\u00a0 What a wondrous time was the first ride day.<\/p>\n

Lucky’s lack of impulsion made me a very confident and brave rider!\u00a0 I love those Missouri Fox Trotter left-brain introverted horses!\u00a0 This is my fourth – Sage, Velvet and JR being the first three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a five day Natural Solutions Horse Camp with Tony and Jenny Vaught on 3\/26 thru 3\/30.\u00a0 We did groundskill tasks in the morning and in the afternoon, we were ready to ride. Gulp.\u00a0 Although I wasn’t nervous about riding Lucky Star for the first time, I was nervous.\u00a0 There was nothing to worry about, but it was my first time to ride him.\u00a0 I just wanted to get the first ride started and feel comfortable. After I get that “comfortable feeling” on a new horse, I’m ready 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":[89,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-franks-lucky-star","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}