A couple of years ago, I decided that I knew what I wanted in my next horse.
\nI wanted a naturally gaited, athletic horse. My baby’s name is JR and his
\nmommy and grandpa can do flying lead changes.<\/p>\n
JR is 2 1\/2 now and he went to Jenny school yesterday. I talked to Jenny
\nafter work and she said guess who I rode today? I couldn’t guess. She said,
\n“I rode JR”. Well, there’s another JR in the barn, so I said which JR. She
\nsaid, “YOUR JR!”<\/p>\n
WOW! She “wallered” all over him and he was very calm. So, she decided to
\nget on him. He didn’t move for a while and she just rubbed him. Finally, he
\ndecided to move a foot and she hopped off. I think that’s pretty good for
\nhis first day of school!<\/p>\n
JR is a fox trotter. We are going to start him differently than the “normal”
\nfox trotter. We are going to ignore his natural gait. If he gaits, fine and
\nif he trots…even better. We want him to trot. He will learn his athletic
\nstuff first…like flying lead changes and then we’ll go back and teach him
\nhow to be a great gaited horse.<\/p>\n
It’s a grand experiment we’re going to be havin! Lot’s to think about for a
\nyoungster!<\/p>\n
I had the arena to myself tonight, so JR got to play while Velvet and I
\npracticed on our level 3 tasks. What fun we had!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of years ago, I decided that I knew what I wanted in my next horse. I wanted a naturally gaited, athletic horse. My baby’s name is JR and his mommy and grandpa can do flying lead changes. JR is 2 1\/2 now and he went to Jenny school yesterday. I talked to Jenny after work and she said guess who I rode today? I couldn’t guess. She said, “I rode JR”. Well, there’s another JR in the barn, so I said which JR. She said, “YOUR JR!” WOW!…<\/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":[26],"tags":[27,10,4],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jr","tag-bob-blackwell","tag-jennifer-vaught","tag-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}