{"id":7755,"date":"2022-03-01T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2022-03-06T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T01:10:15","slug":"best-bridleless-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/best-bridleless-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Bridleless Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look at that front leg reach,swish of the trail\u2026perfect foxtrot!\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>
\nWe started with a bridle and did the gaits, leg yields and a repeat of yesterday\u2019s reining pattern, but slow motion at a flat foot walk.
\nI took off the bridle. \u00a0We practiced doing leg yields without reins. \u00a0I\u2019m remembering Velvet now. \u00a0Velvet and I did leg yields bridleless, in one direction with it being difficult the other direction. Ah, the memories\u2026<\/p>\n

When we were resting, I remembered sidepassing. \u00a0We experimented with bridleless sidepassing.<\/p>\n

I had a neck rope while riding bridleless until it became untied. \u00a0I used my body, leg cues and horsemanship stick to provide Fancy with my direction and speed requests.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thrilled to report Fancy stopped when I asked. \u00a0Stopping is a very big deal when riding bridleless! \u00a0Fancy did wonderful! \u00a0We did all the gaits while bridleless, flat foot walk, fox trot and canter.<\/p>\n

Erin Patterson, instructor emeritus, said, \u201cBest bridleless ride!\u201d<\/p>\n

WONDERFUL! \u00a0I\u2019m very fortunate lucky to have this horse. \u00a0Her bloodline proves what our fox trotter ancestors wanted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Look at that front leg reach,swish of the trail\u2026perfect foxtrot! We started with a bridle and did the gaits, leg yields and a repeat of yesterday\u2019s reining pattern, but slow motion at a flat foot walk. I took off the bridle. \u00a0We practiced doing leg yields without reins. \u00a0I\u2019m remembering Velvet now. \u00a0Velvet and I did leg yields bridleless, in one direction with it being difficult the other direction. Ah, the memories\u2026 When we were resting, I remembered sidepassing. \u00a0We experimented with bridleless sidepassing. I had a neck rope…<\/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":[114,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy","category-flying-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}