The great demonstration at the Mid America fox trotter horse show was last Saturday and everything was just super!
\nhere’s some highlights:<\/p>\n
My reining circles turned into triangles, but nobody cared.<\/p>\n
During one of my reining circles, I decided to switch my flag to the
\nother hand..during our canter. Unfortunately, I switched my hands
\nright in front of my body, thus forcing the flag to be whipped right
\nin my face! I was riding blind for a while. I tried to pretend that
\nthis was part of the act, but the crowd knew better! We all chuckled.<\/p>\n
We did a reining horse sliding stop that made the crowd inhale and
\nexhale a big ohhhhhhh!!!scream with loud clapping.<\/p>\n
The diagonal trot and canter went GREAT<\/p>\n
The announcer was reading the script when I was supposed to jump the
\nbarrels, but instead Velvet evaded the barrels. But, we turned right
\naround and jumped it…twice, astounding everyone.<\/p>\n
We managed to sidepass over the barrels without knocking them crooked.<\/p>\n
I leaped off and the ringman helped take the saddle off. I asked
\nVelvet to lie down, but she bowed. The crowd errupted into applause,
\nthinking that was it. They quieted right down when I kept asking her
\nto lie down. They errupted into applause when she did.
\nI petted her and moved to the other side. There was sort of an
\ninhaled gasp noise from the crowd when I sat on her. When she stood
\nup…more intensive applause.<\/p>\n
I rode around the arena bareback and bridleless to thunderous
\napplause and it got louder as I was leaving the arena! I tried to
\nturn and take “another bow”, but Velvet really wanted to leave out
\nthe open gate. We struggled and the applause tapered off…We did a
\ndeparting reining spin!<\/p>\n
After it was over, I was walking around the arena. I got many
\ncongrats and great riding exclamations from people..lots of people
\nchatted with me and exclaimed over the demo. My FAVORITE was a man
\nwho asked me if I had anything published that he could buy on
\ntraining horses like this!
\nI answered everyone’s questions…even the publication question with
\nit’s the Pat Parelli training system!<\/p>\n
YEE HAW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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