Because I have such and wonderful horse of Yes in Cisco, it is difficult to work up much incentive to ride the Horse of No, Lucky Star. \u00a0Lucky might be near full recovery from his accidental leap over the fence and ripping up his foot in September 2015.<\/p>\n
I had incentive today. It was feet trimming day with Tony Vaught. \u00a0 I took him to the arena in which I ride. \u00a0He and Cisco trailered over together. \u00a0Cisco was first out of the trailer. \u00a0I tied him up. \u00a0Lucky Star got to wear the saddle, so I tied him up next to the tack room door. \u00a0I opened the tack room door and Lucky Star’s head dove into the tack room and picked up the horse feed bag. \u00a0He picked it up and swung it out of the trailer in one swoop. \u00a0I got it away from him and moved it to the side. \u00a0Then Lucky Star’s head dove into the trailer and ripped \u00a0the alfalfa pellets bag. He tried to pick it up, but failed and ripped a chunk out of the sack. \u00a0I then managed to tie Lucky’s head closer to the trailer so he couldn’t reach inside the trailer. \u00a0I whipped the saddle blanket and saddle on the big mouth horse, moved the feed sack back into the trailer and took off with Cisco and Lucky to the arena. \u00a0Whew. \u00a0It was a humid day and sweat was running down my nose.<\/p>\n
We proceeded to the arena. \u00a0I took Lucky into the round pen. \u00a0Suddenly, he noticed the guy in the tree line sawing a downed tree. \u00a0He snorted, blew out the big alarm noise and body was fully alert to danger of being eaten. The tree guy had filled up his truck and left the tree line. I let Lucky loose and asked him to run around the pen. \u00a0 Lucky ran around the round pen in his imitation bronc posture where he puts his head way down and crow hops. \u00a0This causes the saddle to move forward to his neck. I loosened the saddle and moved it back to the correct position. \u00a0He ran around again with an even worse bronc imitation. \u00a0The saddle slipped forward. \u00a0 I took off the saddle and asked him to resume our warm up. \u00a0I thought he was fine to ride, so I resaddled him. \u00a0We left the round pen without our halter. \u00a0We were walking to our bridle (at liberty) when a horse loose in the pasture decided to run at full speed. \u00a0Lucky Star decided to take off too. \u00a0Whoowe! \u00a0By the time he was done with his bronc act and appearing ferocious to the running horse, the saddle had slipped up to his neck. \u00a0OMG. \u00a0He let me catch him before the saddle swung under his neck. \u00a0We did another resaddle. \u00a0It takes a lot of human energy to whip that saddle off and on a horse. \u00a0My nose wasn’t the only thing to have sweat dripping and running.<\/p>\n
Finally, Lucky Star was ready to ride. \u00a0He trotted around a circle without doing the bronc imitation. \u00a0I got him and told him to move. \u00a0Oh, a fly must be bothering his hind leg. \u00a0I asked him to move and he stomped his back leg. \u00a0Dratted flies. \u00a0Oh wait, stomping his back leg is an argument against moving forward. \u00a0We did our argument removing hindquarter turns and were able to move forward. \u00a0The rest of the ride was wonderful. \u00a0His gait is the smoothest flat foot walk and fox trot in the universe. \u00a0I decided against cantering today. \u00a0His feet really needed the trim that Tony Vaught was going to do today. \u00a0We played some point to point games which he loves. \u00a0He loves to stop and point to point is a stop game.<\/p>\n
It was time to get off Lucky Star and saddle up Cisco. \u00a0Cisco warmed up with running a circle around me…at liberty. \u00a0I came upon the idea to give him the verbal canter signal with me on the ground. \u00a0What a stroke of intelligence I have.<\/p>\n
Warmed up and mounted. \u00a0I decided to play the cow game with Lucky. \u00a0I had my stick and string. \u00a0Cisco and I drove that Horse of No around the arena, in a circle. \u00a0We changed directions. \u00a0We crossed the pole, went around the barrels. \u00a0Of it was fun to drive Lucky Star around. \u00a0Cisco was darn excited that he could drive the leader of the pack around too. \u00a0What a big day for both these horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Because I have such and wonderful horse of Yes in Cisco, it is difficult to work up much incentive to ride the Horse of No, Lucky Star. \u00a0Lucky might be near full recovery from his accidental leap over the fence and ripping up his foot in September 2015. I had incentive today. It was feet trimming day with Tony Vaught. \u00a0 I took him to the arena in which I ride. \u00a0He and Cisco trailered over together. \u00a0Cisco was first out of the trailer. \u00a0I tied him up. \u00a0Lucky Star…<\/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-3634","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\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}