NO Halloween Costumes This Year?! 🎃 Horse Show Drama & Big Farm News

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Have you ever dressed in a toga  for any event as a costume?
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No. Shocker. I’ve been a toga. Shocker. That’s not a surprise. That’s what I’m saying. But  I feel like for men, a big go-to, especially in
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college, is a toga. Just go like little Greek god. Yeah. That’s just operating under the assumption
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that I have lame costumes. Well, I don’t operate under that
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assumption. But you haven’t dressed  up for the past at least two years.
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So, welcome back to Katching  Up With Katie. We are literally just talking about how Nate has lame costumes. No, we were talking about how I have no costumes
Nate Has Lame Costumes
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and because we insinuated that he would be the  type of guy to show up to a Halloween party,
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just throw on a toga, throw on a sheet  and call it “God.” And he was like, “Well,
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that would insinuate I do lame costumes.” Well, we wouldn’t know. We’ve
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invited him to many costume parties. This is true. One of them had a mechanical
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bull and he just doesn’t come. Doesn’t show up. Would you come to a Halloween party if it wasn’t
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in like a work environment? Like if it wasn’t at  my shop — for example, hypothetically if I had
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a Halloween party — would you attend that? I would say that the work environment has
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never been a determining factor  on if I made an appearance. He just doesn’t like us. It’s the people actually. Yeah. The
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environment has nothing to do with it. It’s the  people. The overall vibe. It’s always been some
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external element that’s prevented me from coming. I don’t know. I don’t personally make excuses
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for Halloween. I just feel  like you prioritize that day.
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Yeah. Halloween’s more important  to you than it is to me. Well, yeah. I’ll also put out there, we give  quite the heads up. We provide a full dinner
Halloween Party
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because we do Friendsgiving/Halloween. So, we  do a full Thanksgiving spread with costumes,
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prizes. I don’t think anyone can say you don’t  throw a good party. You throw a great party.
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You wouldn’t know. It’s not good enough. No, it’s good enough. It’s  better than most I go to.
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He wouldn’t know. He doesn’t come to them. I can’t remember a party I’ve been to since
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you began inviting me. So, it’s not a thing  of me going to other people’s parties and not yours. I don’t think I’ve gone to any. Nate, we need to get party Nate back. You
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were literally growing party Nate’s hair. I am. I think it’ll hit a certain length
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at some point and I’ll go “whoa” —  kind of like That’s So Raven. I’ll just hit a little like, “yo, Halloween.” We have begged him because this coming
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Halloween his daughter is going to be toddling.  She’s going to be literally a year old. We begged
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for her to be a burrito last year, which I did  get a picture of. But we were like, “Please,
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while she’s toddling and crawling, put her in  some sort of little woodland creature garb.”
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Like, I want a skunk. I want a little  chipmunk. Something with a tail. Please.
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What if Matt brought his? Oh my gosh, what if  they were like a chicken and a goat? That would
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be great. She can be the goat. Why? Because we already have a chicken outfit. Okay. Then we were going to do that
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for her birthday party. She’s  going to be a little chicken. But that’s before Halloween, right? You’re  going to have a lot of photos from that. True.
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We need some diversity. You need a little  something different. Like a mini donkey.
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That would be cute. And then take a picture  with her and Pico. Oh, that would be so cute. What if you just made her a golf ball and then  you were the golfer? That would be hilarious.
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What is Macy? She’s the cart girl. Honestly,
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no. She’s not the hot cart girl. I don’t  think she would do that. She’s rarely a fan of
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duo costumes. She goes all out though. She will  under no circumstances be second place in the duo.
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Okay. So she could be the golfer, you could be  the caddy. She would want to be the golf ball.
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No. Yeah. She would want to be like  a huge giant golf ball. I get it,
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but the baby is the golf ball. The baby  is the golfer. But I want to see the baby.
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If she’s going to do Halloween, she becomes  unrecognizable as a person. She’ll do so much that
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you’re like, “That’s not my wife. I don’t know who  this person is in front of me, but she’s scary.”
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You know what she could do? She could be the  actual cart. That would actually be funny.
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I was saying the other day to someone that I’ve  never really done funny Halloween. I feel like
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I’m missing out on that. But most of the time  my costumes are so last minute that I don’t put
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much thought into them. Last year I liked mine,  but my hands are always tied because I want to
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do something as a couple with Jonathan.  And he always wants some sort of weapon.
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So then it’s like, okay, we were gladiator and  goddess, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Little
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Red Riding Hood and the wolf. But he wants to be  like Vikings off the show Vikings. That’s what he
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wants to do this year. I feel like I could do it,  but funny always gets bypassed for the weaponry.
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He’s a weapons guy. He likes to buy  swords and big axes. And to be honest,
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when else does he get a chance to use them, you  know? Exactly. So my hands are kind of tied.
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He did want to do “deer in the headlights” but I  said no. It’s been done, especially in this area.
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How does that work? He’s the deer.
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Are you doing a couple’s costume this year? I don’t know.
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We’re still trying to plan a birthday. Are  you going to do a couple’s costume or not?
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I just couldn’t think of anything else to say.  Like honestly, I just couldn’t form a response.
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I really want to be like, “Well,  last year you promised Connor.”
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I thought we already talked about that. I think you still have to do it. We’ve talked about it, but you can refresh. No, it’s off the table. We’ve already spoken.
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Last year in February we went out with  everybody to PBR and one of our friends Connor,
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who is a shorter-statured, broad fella, wanted  to be a mechanical bull for Halloween and he
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bet you. I don’t know how he got you to  agree to being one of the PBR girls. Yeah,
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but the stipulation was unless you had  another person for a couple’s costume. And
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I think it had to be like a month or more before  Halloween before I could back out. So we’ll see.
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Not doing it with Connor this year. No, I don’t think I’ll be doing that at all.
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I witnessed it and took a video  of you agreeing. So if that ever was to be back on the table, I do have proof. I don’t know why we’re talking about Halloween
Halloween Merch
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in August. We do have Halloween merch though.  Jack the Nipper stuff, little vampire bat, minis
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holding things — it’s the cutest stuff ever. Last  year I put everything up mid-to-late September and
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people said they wanted to wear it all October.  So we put it up early this year so you can get it.
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Back to actual catching up. This past week was  exciting. Since the last Katching Up With Katie,
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we watched Denver show through the phone and  he was Reserve World Champion in performance
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halter stallions. But then we got to see  him achieve World Champion status in person.
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This was the first time us three have gone  on a trip as just a trio. We swam, Nate
Trip
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did a cannonball, we had Tyler along too. We  miked up the entire time in Oklahoma, four days,
Tyler
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even in the bathroom. We don’t know what’s going  to be included, but I’m excited to see how that
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turns out. No pressure, Nate, on editing. It was a really cool experience. I went
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and rode a couple of horses. I almost got  swindled into buying a couple of horses — I didn’t. Apparently there was a whole lot  of drama at the horse show. I stay out of
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drama. I prefer to just ride and show. We went  back to the Airbnb by 7:30, which was great.
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Denver is now a World Champion. He won the  $10,000 Limited Open Horse Western Pleasure.
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Boom. That makes him an NSBA World Champion  and Reserve NSBA World Champion. He’s got
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those titles now, which is really cool. And yes, people asked if his stud fee
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would skyrocket now. I made a thing on TikTok  explaining no, we’re keeping it the same at
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$2,250. His first babies are coming this year.  He’ll collect fresh for the first six weeks,
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not the whole season, so he can still go show.  That opens him up to a whole new group of mares
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who didn’t want to use frozen semen. Anyway, it was a really cool week.
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What was your favorite part of the horse show? Show class we’ve ever seen.
Abigail's Favorite Class!
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No, but it was actually a lot more interactive.  It was a lot more entertaining — every rider had
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a song. I don’t know if they chose them or if they  just picked songs that went well with the pattern,
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but that made it really fun. Every time we were  like, “I wonder what song they’re going to play.”
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They were going a lot faster at one point which  was more fun to see. The crowd was bigger,
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people were cheering, things were loud. So, it was a horsemanship challenge that
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they did and it was open. I don’t really know  what the qualifications were to be able to enter,
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but they had the whole prelim day before we  even got there. There were a ton more people,
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but then they limited it down to 15 finalists. They had four patterns that they had to memorize
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and it was a horsemanship pattern, so it’s  a western class. The announcer said, “Okay,
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here’s your pattern.” After they all came in,  they did a big announcement for each person and their horse, and then they were like, “Pattern  number four, you have five minutes to warm up.”
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So they had five minutes to remind themselves  what pattern that was and work on those
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maneuvers. It was a very difficult pattern —  lots of tight turns, big fast extended lopes,
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extended trots, spins, backs, lots of  transitions, lead changes, all the things.
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In that type of circumstance, everyone  was screaming, everyone was whistling.
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Every person got to choose their own song.  It was this really cool atmosphere. They
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were even throwing t-shirts out beforehand. Not to me. Not to you either. Let’s touch on
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that. We were dedicated to getting a t-shirt —  specifically Nate. I gave him my little bandana,
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my scarf, everything. He was doing  so much more than everyone else, which they announced on the microphone to the  entire arena: “The crazier you go, the better
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chance you have of getting the shirt.” I don’t think one person in there was crazier than I was. No. But you were also at the top.
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Maybe they didn’t have the arm. I watched both of them make eye contact with him and then look away. They  decided that adult man is doing way too much.
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But that’s the rules. I think it was that one, because they threw it to a bunch of girls sitting below us. What if they just didn’t have the arm?
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I can’t give them that benefit. Anyway, that kind of started us off salty
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toward the administration. But then it took off.  I’ve had four different conversations with you
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since then, like, “Why can’t every class do that?” My question is why don’t they incorporate some of
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the same things into other classes to make  them more fun to watch? And I’m only saying
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that from the point of view of someone  who has never watched horse stuff and
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has now been watching it a couple years. Then I saw something I’d never seen
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before and I was like, “This is really  cool. Why haven’t I seen this before?”
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There were so many people there. I get the  logistics of the classes, but at normal
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horse shows you’re trying to fit in hundreds of  classes. Generally when you go to a horse show,
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you’re trying to get points, qualify, and  they give you at least twice to show in
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the same event. So it’s Thursday through Sunday. You’ve got hunters, ranch, western, English flat,
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halter, showmanship, trail. Logistically, making  every class big with special entrances doesn’t
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work for regular shows. That’s why at the  big ones they do fun things like that. Like in Kentucky, we were watching a hunter  under saddle class and they did musical
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chairs in the middle of it. Everyone  got off and played musical chairs. You see that more at big events for prizes. That class also moved very quickly. They
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were coming out, starting patterns immediately,  finishing fast, and the next one was already
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walking in. They did have at the beginning where  they put the horse’s name and rider’s name on
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the screen and had a walkout, but that wasn’t  what made it cool. The actual patterns were.
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So it didn’t take long. But that  was the finals with 15 people.
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Imagine doing that with the original 75. Can you just make the class smaller? Limit it?
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That’s how many people want to enter.  If you limit, you miss entry fees.
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I guess, but I think they’d make it  up with more spectators buying things.
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There’s a balance, because you want  showing available to the people who
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support the horse world economy. They’re buying  babies, training, keeping trainers employed.
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I don’t know, I just want entertainment. We need to go to a reining show.
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I think making it more entertaining  is a big part of growth. I agree.
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You can’t do it for everything, but it helps. Another cool thing — I don’t know if we’ve ever
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watched this, but they do crazy trail challenges  for big money at shows like Ocala or the Big A.
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They’re usually at night with dinners. The courses  are so hard, and everyone goes crazy because the
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trainers are achieving insane things. That’s another reason it’s hard to do
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at every level. You need the caliber of  horse and rider. Not every show has that. But I do think entertainment helps the  industry. I’m glad y’all enjoyed it,
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because that’s what I like too. Since y’all have  started coming to shows, we’ve focused on western
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pleasure — slower classes, because that’s what  Denver does — or hunter under saddle with Hank.
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Equitation, horsemanship, western riding,  trail — those were always my favorite. I never
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did rail classes except for all-around points. I’m excited you liked the pattern classes more.
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I also really liked in Ocala when we watched  the new versatility class. That was fun too. I
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like the patterns where you watch one horse and  rider at a time, not 20 doing the same thing.
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That class isn’t official yet,  but I hope it becomes one. I’d
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love to sponsor it with VS Code Red. It’s  a flat class but with intricate maneuvers.
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It’s a great stepping stone for horses and riders. Equitation has patterns like that, but it’s judged
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on the rider. This one is judged on  the horse. You can breathe a little
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because it’s about what the horse is doing. After this week, we rode again two nights ago.
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I think you should try an English saddle. And  we all keep saying how good Abigail’s seat is
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for a beginner. We should do a video one day of  Abigail trying out all the horses at the barn,
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on the lunge line, full lesson,  reins taken away, really learning.
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Can we do that? Oh yeah.
We Need Feedback!
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We’d put you on the lunge line so you’re not  steering, just focusing on your seat and pressure.
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Nate, are you in on this? Yeah, I’ll be in.
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Who’s filming? Matt? Is Matt finally  going to get on a horse? He keeps saying,
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“I’ve already done this.” But I’ve never  seen photos or heard stories. He’s a story
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guy. If it happened, there’d be a story. But no. He says, “I’m from Oklahoma.” But he hasn’t lived
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there since high school. It’s been a  decade. We may have to pressure him.
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Anyway, today we’re preg-checking the mini  cows. That’s going to be an episode. We’ve
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already preg-checked the mini horses. So much happening in the next few
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weeks — showing at Congress, the World  Show, calving season, cattle sales.
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Let us know if you have questions about  horse shows, stallion life, or what
That’s It!
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you’d like us to cover. We’re not afraid to  do explainer videos like “what is western
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pleasure” or “what is English versatility.” We  might film some at Congress or the World Show.
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Y’all got anything to add? Nah. Bless up, fam. …I shouldn’t have added that.
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No. Alright. See you in the next one.