{"id":8015,"date":"2024-03-26T20:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2024-11-16T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:02:51","slug":"a-gold-whirlwind-tenor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/a-gold-whirlwind-tenor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gold Whirlwind, Tenor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?attachment_id=8013\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8013\" src=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B51A44DF-36BE-4064-A39B-1FFC688F57BF-231x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B51A44DF-36BE-4064-A39B-1FFC688F57BF-231x300.jpeg 231w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B51A44DF-36BE-4064-A39B-1FFC688F57BF-308x400.jpeg 308w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B51A44DF-36BE-4064-A39B-1FFC688F57BF-768x996.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B51A44DF-36BE-4064-A39B-1FFC688F57BF-1185x1536.jpeg 1185w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B51A44DF-36BE-4064-A39B-1FFC688F57BF-scaled.jpeg 1974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Whirlwind\u2019s Golden Tenor is my horse, ridden by Jenny Vaught in this competition. My son is an opera singer, thus the name, Tenor. Tenor\u2019s sire was Whirlwind, the black horse used at the Celebration for many years \u00a0to honor those who died that year. I bought Tenor from Teresa Osborn when he was a weanling because I didn\u2019t have enough horses\u2026haha.<\/p>\n<p>I gave Tenor to a client of Tony and Jenny Vaught, who all live \u00a0in Florida. \u00a0When Tenor was a yearling, the man and his wife from Florida came to visit me. \u00a0Tenor was something special back then and got to spend time in my yard, eating grass. \u00a0The clients came to visit me. \u00a0We went to the barn and sat on some hay bales, chatting. \u00a0Tenor walked into the barn and laid down at the man\u2019s feet! \u00a0We were all stunned.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the man\u2019s horse died so I gave him Tenor. \u00a0It was meant to be. \u00a0Tenor and his human took lessons from and stabled with Tony and Jenny. \u00a0Plus he was used as a lesson horse. \u00a0Last year, circumstances changed and the man delivered Tenor back to me.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny rode him in 2023 at the World Celebration. \u00a0Tenor won Versatility Reserve World Grand Championship and World Grand Champion Ranch Horse!<br \/>\nGood Lordy<\/p>\n<p>Tenor\u2019s story is miraculous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whirlwind\u2019s Golden Tenor is my horse, ridden by Jenny Vaught in this competition. My son is an opera singer, thus the name, Tenor. Tenor\u2019s sire was Whirlwind, the black horse used at the Celebration for many years \u00a0to honor those who died that year. I bought Tenor from Teresa Osborn when he was a weanling because I didn\u2019t have enough horses\u2026haha. I gave Tenor to a client of Tony and Jenny Vaught, who all live \u00a0in Florida. \u00a0When Tenor was a yearling, the man and his wife from Florida came&hellip;<\/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":[125,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri-fox-trotter","category-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","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=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8080,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}