{"id":3193,"date":"2015-04-27T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2015-04-28T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T23:38:36","slug":"the-longest-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/the-longest-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Getting<\/a>
Getting the Red<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThis is it: \u00a0Cisco’s first horse show. \u00a0His human birth mommy, Brenda, came all the way from Virginia to see him. \u00a0She has not seen him since he was sold some years ago. \u00a0
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\"Brenda<\/a>
Brenda and Cisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nBrenda’s friends and I held her hands as we walked down the aisle to Cisco’s stall. \u00a0Brenda melted when she first saw him. \u00a0Cisco’s eyes were wide open when she walked into the stalled and rubbed him. \u00a0He was very surprised to see her again, especially in this big huge arena foreign place. \u00a0Brenda loved on him and groomed him. \u00a0She and her friends cheered for Cisco and I during the entire show. \u00a0Cisco has had nothing but love and goodness from humans his entire life. \u00a0He is a very lucky horse to have had knowledgable and kind people as his caretakers.<\/p>\n

I’m the horse show manager. \u00a0Not much stress…ha! \u00a0There are a million and a half things to remember and do when you are the show manager. \u00a0Plus Getting the show started is a nervous time. \u00a0I asked Jenny to warm Cisco up for me. \u00a0When I took him there early in the morning, I did have about 10 minutes to walk him in the arena. \u00a0Jenny also took him into the arena before the show.<\/p>\n

This is the first time in my life that my name was called to be “on deck” as I was mounting my horse for my first ride. \u00a0Normally, I would have been there two hours early, rode, played on-line and worried. \u00a0But, as the show manager, all that wasn’t possible. \u00a0I did get my good friend Hope, to move my trail ride appearance to last of the entries. \u00a0So I did get ride him for about 10 minutes in the warm-up arena which is just outside of the big arena.<\/p>\n

We did perfect in the trail pattern except he was scared of the jump standards that made up the rope gate. \u00a0He told me he scared of those big funny shaped wood things, so I decided to skip the rope gate and go on. \u00a0I did notice when Cisco and I went into the arena, I had chose the wrong bridle. I had to ride with one hand with an English style bridle,with short “buckle reins. Whoops! We changed bridles in time for Fox Trot Western Pleasure. We looked great!
\nLater in the rail classes, we had changed back to our classic bridle. My good friend looked at me in the arena and said, where’s you “nose thing”? Whoops we participated in several classes without our beautiful purple designer noseband!<\/p>\n

I had entered him in six classes. \u00a0His get up and go didn’t really appear the entire show. \u00a0I had to urge him to keep going and not slow down a bunch of times. \u00a0We did break gait a lot which doesn’t get one a win in the ribbons. \u00a0Who cares! \u00a0His first show! \u00a0He did great! \u00a0We won a couple of second places! \u00a0In our last class, near the end of the show, we had to canter. \u00a0I was just hoping that he would canter. \u00a0Not only did he canter, but he didn’t drop down into a slower gait. \u00a0Urging him to keep cantering both ways of the arena took a bunch of my energy too. \u00a0I was out of breath when the class was over. \u00a0Lordy! \u00a0So, we were called up to get our second place ribbon. \u00a0I decided to give the crowd a thrill and told Cisco to canter off. \u00a0We cantered off and I dropped my ribbon. \u00a0I’ve never dropped a ribbon. \u00a0I don’t recall seeing anyone ever dropping a ribbon. \u00a0scream! \u00a0The crowd went wild!<\/p>\n

\"Trail<\/a>
Trail Class Lineup<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nCisco did great! \u00a0He’s got the “it factor”. \u00a0I have the show bug. \u00a0It’s going to be an amazing show season! \u00a0Yee Haw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is it: \u00a0Cisco’s first horse show. \u00a0His human birth mommy, Brenda, came all the way from Virginia to see him. \u00a0She has not seen him since he was sold some years ago. \u00a0 Brenda’s friends and I held her hands as we walked down the aisle to Cisco’s stall. \u00a0Brenda melted when she first saw him. \u00a0Cisco’s eyes were wide open when she walked into the stalled and rubbed him. \u00a0He was very surprised to see her again, especially in this big huge arena foreign place. \u00a0Brenda loved on…<\/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":[106,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","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=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}