{"id":3011,"date":"2014-07-11T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2014-07-11T21:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T02:32:46","slug":"lucky-star-maturing-good-gad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/lucky-star-maturing-good-gad\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Star Maturing? Good Gad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Never fear, Lucky Star still argues. \u00a0He did take a rein in his mouth just last week. \u00a0The young argumentative boy has turned into a more mature less argumentative boy. \u00a0Lucky and I spend a lot of time going slow, steering with the hindquarter and riding without me touching the reins. \u00a0After we get all this worked out, we might do a few drop to trot canter lead changes in a figure eight type pattern \u00a0He still breaks into a non rhythmic lateral bumpy gait. \u00a0We can’t keep the three beat canter going. \u00a0We also don’t pick up the canter exactly when I ask for it…he might pick it up within 10 to 100 feet. \u00a0 Then we practice the flat foot walk and fox trot. \u00a0That’s what we do when I ride him.<\/p>\n

Many have asked what Lucky thinks of having Cisco in his life. \u00a0Will he want to share me and do less work. \u00a0I tell you now that I’ll be taking him and Cisco both to lessons and clinics. \u00a0He is fine with being tied up and watching Cisco being the one…in between his eating grass. \u00a0Yep, I think he’s happy.<\/p>\n

Today, Lucky got to be in the group lesson. \u00a0It was supposed to be a two hour lesson, but it unfolded into a three hour lesson. \u00a0Cisco got to spend about an hour for our liberty exercise and poor Lucky had to do drop to walk serpentine pattern at a canter. \u00a0Lucky did some awesome turns at a canter, better than ever before. \u00a0I was determined to follow the pattern rules with the walk and canter gaits. \u00a0Lucky did good for a while, but hey…it’s hot out there. \u00a0Lucky decided to be done with an impulsion (forward motion), a little before I was done with impulsion. \u00a0We argued, we stopped, we moved at an argumentative protest walk while I was asking for a canter. \u00a0I became grumpy, because hey, it’s hot out there. \u00a0Thankfully, I won the battle and then Jenny told me to ride on the rail. \u00a0We did really well fox trotting on the rail and the lesson was over for Lucky Star.<\/p>\n

We will be occasionally adding the serpentine pattern in our daily riding practice!<\/p>\n

We are attending another group lesson tomorrow morning! \u00a0I look for Lucky to do well for a while! \u00a0Cisco will be leaving with Jenny tomorrow and Lucky will have to ride home without him. \u00a0oh Lordy….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never fear, Lucky Star still argues. \u00a0He did take a rein in his mouth just last week. \u00a0The young argumentative boy has turned into a more mature less argumentative boy. \u00a0Lucky and I spend a lot of time going slow, steering with the hindquarter and riding without me touching the reins. \u00a0After we get all this worked out, we might do a few drop to trot canter lead changes in a figure eight type pattern \u00a0He still breaks into a non rhythmic lateral bumpy gait. \u00a0We can’t keep the three…<\/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-3011","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\/3011","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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}