{"id":838,"date":"2008-08-10T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=838"},"modified":"2010-10-07T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:08:22","slug":"sue-the-how-you-did-it-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/sue-the-how-you-did-it-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue &#8211; the How You DID IT Horse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The Horse Show Goal<br \/>\nMy goals were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">to ride from the\u00a0horse trailer to the arena<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">to ride in\u00a0the\u00a0show classes, occasionally doing what the judge called for<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">to ride out of the arena to the trailer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0We got big huge virtual blue ribbons and met everyone of these goals<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0thanked everyone that came, clapped and cheered. I discovered that smiling when people clap is a great way to release tension. I know Sue enjoyed the clapping. Sue knew it was her night. The arena was ours!\u00a0 We have a nice group of natural horsemanship great friends who came and provided support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In one class, we got behind Nova.(Nova is also my horse and a member of\u00a0Sue&#8217;s herd-ridden by Jennifer Vaught in the class) \u00a0Sue tried to put her head in Nova&#8217;s tail. You know that&#8217;s not really good for a young horse&#8217;s first experience in the show ring. I tried to pass. Not an option for Sue&#8230;and all this was in front of the judge. Finally the judge called for going reverse and Sue and I managed to get away from Nova. Sue found great comfort in following her herd mates!<\/p>\n<p>After the last Sue class was over, I was mulling around the experience.\u00a0 It came to me that a chapter has closed and a new one has opened.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 2+ years, I&#8217;ve been concentrating on eliminating fear (in both Sue and I) by building trust and partnership and playing the friendly games constantly in many different levels in many different ways.<\/p>\n<p>That chapter closed last night. Last night I discovered a talented<br \/>\nhorse underneath me. Sue&#8217;s flat foot walk can be incredible. Her fox trot is in a raw stage of being incredible. She&#8217;s got a huge reach.<\/p>\n<p>I can start following all phases of the levels program now and bring out her talent. The friendly game will still be a big part of this, but I&#8217;m free to move on now.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s a great white light of a door\u00a0with the beauty of spiritual nature behind the light.\u00a0 There the shadow of a beautiful bay mare waiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Check back in a couple of weeks for the show pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(it is Sunday)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horse Show Goal My goals were: to ride from the\u00a0horse trailer to the arena to ride in\u00a0the\u00a0show classes, occasionally doing what the judge called for to ride out of the arena to the trailer \u00a0We got big huge virtual blue ribbons and met everyone of these goals I\u00a0thanked everyone that came, clapped and cheered. I discovered that smiling when people clap is a great way to release tension. I know Sue enjoyed the clapping. Sue knew it was her night. The arena was ours!\u00a0 We have a nice group&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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sue-how-do-you-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}