{"id":2843,"date":"2013-12-08T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T00:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2013-12-08T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:01:18","slug":"lucky-star-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/lucky-star-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Star – 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a while since I’ve updated everyone as to how Lucky is doing. \u00a0I was a little discouraged this past year, starting in June, when I still didn’t have a ridable horse to show. \u00a0“When or will I ever have a horse I can ride in a show arena!” I was moaning in my mind. \u00a0I had been at the Missouri Fox Trotter Spring Show cheering on the Vaughts with Nova, Powder and Tony. \u00a0 I was at the Super Horse Show the next weekend and temptation overcame me. \u00a0I made a too-high-for-my-budget offer on an amazing horse. The three year old horse had already placed 12th in the Futurity at the Spring Show. \u00a0The horse was winning junior classes at this show. \u00a0Nichole and Jenny agreed that he was a wonderful horse. \u00a0Thankfully, my offer was rejected for being too low. \u00a0Plus, the owner had not yet decided to sell the horse.<\/p>\n

At various times during the hot summer days, I looked at some of the big Horse Classified web sites. \u00a0There were tempting Fox Trotter horses that could possibly be in my price range.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile time passed and I was riding Lucky Star every day at a new wonderful boarding stable. \u00a0I like to ride there and presto, I ride. \u00a0Lucky Star started improving! \u00a0He started moving for a quarter or half of the arena before he would screech to an unasked halt and argue about moving. \u00a0Say, this is the life! \u00a0Plus, I could get him to stop arguing much sooner and off we went again.<\/p>\n

I got an email from the owner of the amazing horse and told that my offer would be accepted. \u00a0The horse is now for sale. \u00a0Filled with hope for Lucky Star’s progress, I turned down the offer \u00a0to buy the amazing horse. \u00a0If I got the amazing horse, I would be poor and have to sell Lucky Star. \u00a0I checked out my emotional state. \u00a0My emotion said, “You can’t sell Lucky Star! \u00a0Are you crazy? \u00a0You love working with challenges. \u00a0Lucky Star makes you feel confident. \u00a0Lucky Star can be your riding partner for many a year as you get older and older!”<\/p>\n

The end of 2013 has come and Lucky Star has gotten better and better with everything, even the canter. \u00a0He argues less with me about impulsion into the canter. When he does get into the canter, his legs get disrupted and we go into that four legged gait where none of the legs understand the concept of rhythm. \u00a0But, just last week, we cantered a full lap both ways of the fabulous indoor arena where we are spending our winter riding time. \u00a0That was worthy of a SCREAM of JOY!<\/p>\n

The two gaits that Missouri Fox Trotters are known for is the flat foot walk and the fox trot. \u00a0Lucky does those two gaits wonderfully. \u00a0There are many horse shows in the Kansas City area with classes for fox trotters\u2026and only include those two gaits. \u00a0Lucky Star will be a show horse in 2014. \u00a0We are practicing those gaits to get consistent as well as trying for longer and longer times at the canter. \u00a0If we ever get the canter, we can do the Versatility classes at the National Missouri Fox Trotter shows. \u00a0If we ever get the canter and drop-to-trot lead changes, I can do my favorite class, the reining class. \u00a0I love reining class.<\/p>\n

This late Fall, Lucky Star improved so much that he got fun to ride! \u00a0Thank goodness I didn’t buy the perfect horse. \u00a0Getting Lucky Star to be the perfect horse is going to take me a little while and I’ll have a lot of fun while headed for “Lucky Star perfection”! \u00a0yee haw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I’ve updated everyone as to how Lucky is doing. \u00a0I was a little discouraged this past year, starting in June, when I still didn’t have a ridable horse to show. \u00a0“When or will I ever have a horse I can ride in a show arena!” I was moaning in my mind. \u00a0I had been at the Missouri Fox Trotter Spring Show cheering on the Vaughts with Nova, Powder and Tony. \u00a0 I was at the Super Horse Show the next weekend and temptation overcame me.…<\/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-2843","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\/2843","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=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}