Lucky Star and I came roaring into Pine Dell Farm at our customary 3 mph jet speed.\u00a0 We were late for the Wed nite lesson.\u00a0 The horses and riders were coming from the great outdoor playground to the arena.\u00a0 We pulled in and Karen said that Lucky and I might want to warm up in the playground.<\/p>\n
We did warm up.\u00a0 Yesterday’s Rocket-Man was gone and the obediant Lucky Star took the spotlight.\u00a0 Lucky Star is not fully obediant yet, but he was good, darned good.<\/p>\n
We strolled down, got the saddle on and went into the arena. The lesson was in progress.\u00a0 Horses were trotting around the arena.\u00a0 We made it to mounting block and I got on. Everything was in good shape and I told Lucky Star to join the trotting.\u00a0 Zip, off we went.\u00a0 It takes a good calm horse to get right into an ongoing lesson, for sure! I was rightly proud of my boy.<\/p>\n
Then came the Musical Barrel Game.\u00a0 We have barrels in the middle,\u00a0 Karen puts\u00a0a handfull of sweet feed\u00a0on the barrels.\u00a0 We ride on the rail until the music stops, and we find a barrel.\u00a0 At this time, we are riding with loose reins and using only the carrot stick to guide the horse.\u00a0 Lucky Star and I were doing fine.<\/p>\n
The problem came on the 2nd time to play the game.\u00a0 Lucky Star saw Karen go down the barrel row with sweet feed.\u00a0 Lucky Star’s head came up and his total being was focused on “the barrels”. The barrel with sweet feed!\u00a0 Prancing Dancing Rocket Man returned.\u00a0 PDR-Man and I had a few words and I had given up the loose reins for sure!\u00a0 When we came close to the barrel he owned for the first round of sweet feed musical barrels, we had a balking argument.\u00a0 Lucky Star did not want to pass the barrel with food and I did.<\/p>\n
I won.\u00a0 When the music ended, Lucky Star was given the signal to rush to “his barrel”.\u00a0 He rushed to the barrel, got one lick of food and knocked over the barrel. All his sweet feed was thrown on the arena ground.\u00a0 Lucky Star and I had a chat about barrel technique. I explained the concept of stopping when arriving at the barrel.<\/p>\n
The game starts again. We have our argument when Lucky Star sees Karen put the sweet feed on the barrel.\u00a0 I win the balking contest.\u00a0The music stops and Lucky\u00a0rushes to the barrel to eat all his food.\u00a0 Now we are starting the elimination musical barrel game.\u00a0 Everything repeats, with one less barrel than horse and rider.\u00a0 Lucky Star makes it to a barrel.\u00a0 Four more times, we win a barrel.\u00a0We are a TEAM! \u00a0It’s down to Roger and I.\u00a0 Our horses are nearly the same color and hugely determined to win the barrel.\u00a0 Music is playing and a dratted tick must have moved up Lucky’s leg. We screeched to an unwelcome halt and tried to kill the tick.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the music ended and Roger won the barrel.\u00a0 Huh! Was Lucky’s reaction. Lucky Star cursed the tick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucky Star and I came roaring into Pine Dell Farm at our customary 3 mph jet speed.\u00a0 We were late for the Wed nite lesson.\u00a0 The horses and riders were coming from the great outdoor playground to the arena.\u00a0 We pulled in and Karen said that Lucky and I might want to warm up in the playground. We did warm up.\u00a0 Yesterday’s Rocket-Man was gone and the obediant Lucky Star took the spotlight.\u00a0 Lucky Star is not fully obediant yet, but he was good, darned good. We strolled down, got…<\/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-2149","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\/2149","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=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}