{"id":2925,"date":"2014-03-21T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2018-07-04T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:53:29","slug":"he-did-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/he-did-what\/","title":{"rendered":"He Did What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must post this as documentation of Lucky Star’s progress. \u00a0Weather has turned nice and I’m able to ride and play with Lucky Star most every day. \u00a0We make amazing progress when consistency happens.<\/p>\n

Are you sitting down? \u00a0This is a stunner.<\/p>\n

We have been practicing our jumping with the latest success of jumping over barrels with only the front legs…and that isn’t often. \u00a0Usually, Lucky Star balks at the barrels and just plows into them. \u00a0We have managed to jump the barrels with his front legs but then he stops forward motion. \u00a0We end up with barrels underneath us. \u00a0Jumping the barrels with only his front legs as been as goodwe’ve been practicing every day jumping the barrels on-line. \u00a0I’ve taken the barrels apart and set up poles as the jump. \u00a0Today, Lucky Star jumped over the poles. \u00a0it was a serious jump. \u00a0His hind end popped up a bit and sent my hind end out of the saddle. \u00a0When my hind end gets propelled out of the saddle means a real JUMP has just occurred. \u00a0And not only did he do this once, but he did it twice. \u00a0On our forth attempt, we went back to plowing through the poles and knocked them askew. \u00a0Jumping ended for the day with success. \u00a0We’ll try it again with the poles a few more times and then return to the barrel challenge. \u00a0And do you remember that I pledged Lucky and I to be a jumping team. \u00a0Our day in the sun is not far away. \u00a0We might go public!<\/p>\n

The second activity we did after resting up from all the jumping was walk to canter transitions. \u00a0Yes, you read it right. \u00a0We started out at a walk, sped up to a canter and then came back down to a walk. \u00a0If Lucky stayed in the canter until I asked him to come down to a walk, he got a nice long walk to get his breath back. \u00a0Lucky does not yet canter from the walk, but that’s where I start asking. On this great day, Lucky argued for short periods of time and took a lot less convincing on my part before he gave in and cantered. \u00a0It’s only taking 10-50 feet before he speeds up enough to get into a canter. \u00a0This is amazing progress as it used to take us about a fourth of the arena before he managed to canter. \u00a0On this great day, Lucky argued for short periods of time and took a lot less convincing on my part before he gave in and cantered.<\/p>\n

Lucky Star had a cardio fitness day! \u00a0I had to put my pink Missouri Fox Trotter bling hoodie on him as a cooler. \u00a0Oh the suffering …..<\/p>\n

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I must post this as documentation of Lucky Star’s progress. \u00a0Weather has turned nice and I’m able to ride and play with Lucky Star most every day. \u00a0We make amazing progress when consistency happens. Are you sitting down? \u00a0This is a stunner. We have been practicing our jumping with the latest success of jumping over barrels with only the front legs…and that isn’t often. \u00a0Usually, Lucky Star balks at the barrels and just plows into them. \u00a0We have managed to jump the barrels with his front legs but then he…<\/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-2925","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\/2925","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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}