{"id":743,"date":"2005-01-04T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T02:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-10-02T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:36:11","slug":"743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/743\/","title":{"rendered":"JR’s Journal – 2005 Update of the Past and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JR is out of Jack’s Sensation and Bob Blackwoods demonstration mare…Yankee bloodlines.\u00a0 I bought him when he was three days old.\u00a0 I saw him fox trot. The Yankee side of him is very athletic and can do flying lead changes.\u00a0 I needed a very athletic horse.\u00a0 I doubted Velvet would make it through the lead change tasks of level 3 and JR was to be the backup L3 horse.<\/div>\n
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JR was supposed to be about a 15H horse, but he turned into a 15.3 hand horse.\u00a0 Jenny started him and he fox trotted \/ flat foot walked right from the time when she first started.\u00a0 He is breathtaking.<\/div>\n
Eight rides after I started riding him, he could do nothing but pace.\u00a0 After some time asking the big horse god in the sky, “WHY ME!”, I decided to take the blame.\u00a0 I decided my body must have been stiff with fear, off balance and this put JR into a position to stiffen up his whole body and VIOLA…pace.<\/div>\n
Right before I started riding JR, Velvet and I had a crash.\u00a0 Velvet did a hard fall coming down from a canter…her shoulders were locked up and she couldn’t stop.\u00a0 She fell.\u00a0 My Australian Saddle didn’t allow me to fly over her head.\u00a0 It held me right in place and I crashed right beside her.\u00a0 She rolled on me and broke my leg.<\/div>\n
After I recovered, I had these fears about cantering.\u00a0 I was only about halfway recovered when I started riding JR.\u00a0 JR’s gait is BIG.\u00a0 When that long legged thing canters, there’s a lot of sky.\u00a0 I couldn’t stay in the saddle as my body went rigid with fear.\u00a0 He started cross firing and I had to give him back to Tony and Jenny to learn how to canter again.<\/div>\n
So, JR and I have had to make a lot of adjustments.\u00a0 I had to teach him not to pace while he was wearing a rope halter.\u00a0 I had to learn to relax\u00a0when he\u00a0cantered.<\/div>\n
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Just this year, I am able to canter him without thinking about fear.\u00a0I no longer make embarrassing seat-flopping\u00a0noises when we canter around the arena.\u00a0We are having a good time trying to get flying lead changes on the straight.\u00a0 Just this year, we tried to get the fox trot on a consistent basis. He no longer paces, he hard trots instead.\u00a0\u00a0He prefers the running walk and I’ve decided to let him.\u00a0 He does a beautiful fox trot going down hill<\/div>\n
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JR’s personality is People-Loving.\u00a0 If you hurt his feelings, he hangs his head and looks like a whipped Australian Shepherd.<\/div>\n
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He’s six years old this summer.\u00a0 He might actually stop growing this year.\u00a0 Riding him and developing him is exciting and challenging.<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 JR is out of Jack’s Sensation and Bob Blackwoods demonstration mare…Yankee bloodlines.\u00a0 I bought him when he was three days old.\u00a0 I saw him fox trot. The Yankee side of him is very athletic and can do flying lead changes.\u00a0 I needed a very athletic horse.\u00a0 I doubted Velvet would make it through the lead change tasks of level 3 and JR was to be the backup L3 horse. \u00a0 JR was supposed to be about a 15H horse, but he turned into a 15.3 hand horse.\u00a0 Jenny started…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}