I let a beginning rider have a beginning rider lesson on Lucky Star. \u00a0We went through the required seven games and some required rules before mounting. \u00a0That went well. \u00a0Our rider mounted. \u00a0I did neglect to give the rider the mandatory mounting rule, but it went well. \u00a0Now the signal to walk forward was given and Lucky’s response was ears back in protest. \u00a0We tried the turning on the hindquarters and then walking forward. \u00a0That is when Lucky decided to move and place his front feet in front of the barrel and his back feet in back of the barrel. \u00a0He did not jump, he just sidled his feet to both sides of the barrel. \u00a0Can you imagine being a beginning rider and your horse straddles a barrel? \u00a0No, I can’t either.<\/p>\n
I took over Lucky Star. \u00a0I put a halter on his neck and led him around. \u00a0We did some slow circles at a very slow walk while our rider was learning about reins, where his shoulders and belly button go. \u00a0I turned Lucky lose and he managed to move somewhat. \u00a0About this time, Cisco volunteered to come into the arena. \u00a0Cisco became the lead horse and Lucky was supposed to follow. \u00a0Whoops. \u00a0Lucky doesn’t like being the following horse. \u00a0So we had a duo horse team walking around the arena. \u00a0The big achievement was that Lucky moved as his rider was getting used to being on a such a horse. \u00a0I had given our rider a crop with the instructions to tap Lucky’s forequarter three times when he fails to move. \u00a0Lucky laughed and ignored taps that were more like the strength of a fly. \u00a0I coached on the art of tapping Lucky until the tapping actually irritated him enough to have him move.<\/p>\n
Cisco ended his voluteer duty and Lucky Star went off on his own. \u00a0He tried to rub his beginning rider against the corral panel. \u00a0I pulled him off the fence and he and his beginning rider wandered around just a bit more, working on the tapping technique and steering.<\/p>\n
I called the lesson to an end. \u00a0I got on Lucky Star and demonstrated how Lucky can move. \u00a0I demonstrated the tapping. \u00a0Lucky and I did a flat foot walk around the small arena with some dropping out of gait. \u00a0We ended the session. \u00a0Whew! \u00a0Next is what will happen when I ride Cisco while our beginning rider is on Lucky. \u00a0I think Lucky will do this well outside the arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I let a beginning rider have a beginning rider lesson on Lucky Star. \u00a0We went through the required seven games and some required rules before mounting. \u00a0That went well. \u00a0Our rider mounted. \u00a0I did neglect to give the rider the mandatory mounting rule, but it went well. \u00a0Now the signal to walk forward was given and Lucky’s response was ears back in protest. \u00a0We tried the turning on the hindquarters and then walking forward. \u00a0That is when Lucky decided to move and place his front feet in front of the…<\/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-3752","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\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}