{"id":7528,"date":"2021-09-08T01:32:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2021-09-08T01:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T06:35:07","slug":"2021-celebration-september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/2021-celebration-september-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Celebration September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 9\/4\/2021
\nArrival at Ava, Missouri during thunderstorm travel. I hit a deceptive body of standing water and had to wrestle my truck to stay on the pavement. No rain when we arrived. Hot hot. Tried to clean out stall and had a \u201ccan\u2019t get enough O2\u201d breathing episode. Thankfully Apryl\u2019s trailer was cool by then and I sat there until I could breathe again. Jenny took over getting Fancy in the stall. Mike, Apryl\u2019s husband, unhooked trailer and got out the 3 bags of bedding. After a while I could breathe better.
\nCame outside and sat while everything done. Then the gang sat around and caught up on stories. Before the member supper, a huge storm came in. Thankfully it was over just in time for the supper. I had a wonderful steak at the MFTHBA membership dinner. \u00a0Oh my!<\/p>\n

Jenny took over all stall duties for Fancy so I wouldn\u2019t go through more \u00a0no-breathing episodes with pounding heartbeat again..<\/p>\n

We got back. Jenny was going to ride Fancy, but storm was returning. Wet was the word for Saturday. It rained off and on all night. No rain expected from 6 AM Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sunday Show Day \u00a09\/5\/2021<\/p>\n

Open Western Pleasure no canter and Amateur Western Pleasure classes. \u00a0Jenny gave Fancy her bath and she had time to dry out. \u00a0Jenny groomed her when dry and saddled her. Tony came, riding his horse, and lead Fancy to the showgrounds. \u00a0This is called ponying. \u00a0He ponied around the warm up and versatility arena to get her used to everything and calmed down. \u00a0Jenny got on and rode her around. \u00a0There were three classes before mine when I got to ride her around.<\/p>\n

Stories, stories! Susan blunder. I entered a class after the gate closed. No placing. The person next to me was placed, but then they discovered she had not entered (signed up) for the class. It was an Open Walk \/ Trot class. \u00a0I was waiting for an amateur Walk\/Trot. Whoops! No such class exists. \u00a0Amazingly, there is a rule about not being considered a participant if after the \u00a0entry gate closes. \u00a0I made the gate person open the gate and Fancy and I had a great great ride. I had fun!<\/p>\n

Now it is time for Amateur Western Pleasure, will canter. \u00a0JR and Fancy are stalled next to each other and they have taken trailer rides together in the past. \u00a0They get along well. \u00a0Too well now! \u00a0Fancy now looks upon the confident experienced JR as her leader. \u00a0JR is in this class. \u00a0Fancy and I follow them into the arena. \u00a0About once around, JR was too slow for Fancy\u2019s gait. \u00a0We pulled out to pass him. \u00a0She would not pass him in the arena. \u00a0We got along side of JR, doing our perfect gait, and suddenly she pinned her ears back and nearly came to a stop. \u00a0This is not good during a judged class. \u00a0I tried again with same horrible outcome. \u00a0This is The World Show!<\/p>\n

I yelled at Apryl to go faster. \u00a0Sadly in a horse show, your best friend will not obey. \u00a0I took Fancy deep around the corners while JR and Apryl went the shorter route. \u00a0After a few moments, JR got further ahead and other horses passed me. \u00a0Fancy lost track of JR and we resumed her \u201cgood gait. \u00a0There were \u00a0more than 10 riders in the class, so I assumed the judge had seen the slow down gaffs and we were out of the placing. \u00a0Imagine my surprise when Fancy and I were announced to win a white ribbon for fifth place! \u00a0Oh Boy! \u00a0A high honor for the World Show! \u00a0Fancy and I left the arena at a ribbon pumping canter!<\/p>\n

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\nShow Day One ended and I was still alive. \u00a0Apryl rinsed both JR and Fancy. \u00a0We fed the horses and I collapsed for a nice long nap and rest. \u00a0After I recovered, Apryl and I went to the horse show and we got great horse show food. \u00a0Apryl bought a beautiful new saddle pad to go with her purple boots, and clothes. \u00a0Jenny cleaned Fancy\u2019s stall and I went to bed. Still alive! \u00a0First day done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 9\/4\/2021 Arrival at Ava, Missouri during thunderstorm travel. I hit a deceptive body of standing water and had to wrestle my truck to stay on the pavement. No rain when we arrived. Hot hot. Tried to clean out stall and had a \u201ccan\u2019t get enough O2\u201d breathing episode. Thankfully Apryl\u2019s trailer was cool by then and I sat there until I could breathe again. Jenny took over getting Fancy in the stall. Mike, Apryl\u2019s husband, unhooked trailer and got out the 3 bags of bedding. After a while I…<\/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":[114,127,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy","category-jennifer-vaught","category-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528","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=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7550,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}