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Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule #5708462 04/20/15 02:56 PM
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Thought I'd share this with the THF family...

Got to be part of seeing a really cool life lesson unfold this weekend at horse show near our place in Argyle. A 12-yr old girl who takes regular riding lessons at our facility, and volunteers with our disabled lessons on the weekend, decided to enter the Hidden Lakes Hunter Jumper Show to get experience on doing "ground work" for judges. The pony she's training to show jump isn't ready for the ring yet, so our trainer told her she could pick one of our therapy animals to take... and she choose Neena. As you can see in the pic's she isn't your typical show horse, but since she was entering equitation classes, it didn't really matter a lot. These classes are judged primarily on the riders abilities to execute the required disciplines. Expectations were pretty low as this was just a training exercise for her, and there was plenty of competition (about 7-8 horses in each division). As you can see from the pic's, she and Neena kicked butt and out of 8 events they won six 1st's, a 2nd and one 3rd. (The third place actually came in a jumping class over cross rails). And where awarded the Championship in both divisions they entered!

There were a lot of shocked parents watching their kids ride $15K show horses and mumbling about the judges being crazy. In the end a lot of people learned a good lesson around the payoff for hard work, effort and attitude, all of which this girl exhibits in spades.



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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708477 04/20/15 03:05 PM
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Nice...love that story!


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708479 04/20/15 03:06 PM
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Wow that is a heck of a good story, she must be one fantastic rider cheers


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708490 04/20/15 03:13 PM
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Simply outstanding! A great story and congrats to the young lady and of course Neena.

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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708534 04/20/15 03:34 PM
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That's awesome!

Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: DuckCoach1985] #5708553 04/20/15 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted By: DuckCoach1985
That's awesome!


X2 Lots of high dollar hurt feelings after that! Attitude and effort will take you a long way in this world! up


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708558 04/20/15 03:52 PM
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Great story. Nice to hear stuff like this.


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: Pitchfork Predator] #5708566 04/20/15 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted By: Pitchfork Predator
Simply outstanding! A great story and congrats to the young lady and of course Neena.

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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708568 04/20/15 03:57 PM
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Heck yes! I love this story. This is the kind of thing that should be shared on the new. Hard work and perseverance paid off. Oh, and something about not judging a book by it's cover too!

Congrats to the young lady and the Mule. up

Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708708 04/20/15 05:46 PM
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Good Stuff up


Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: SniperRAB] #5708719 04/20/15 05:52 PM
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Way to go Dave! Bet Shar is proud.


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708727 04/20/15 05:59 PM
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Lotsa upset yuppies, I bet.


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awesome


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708737 04/20/15 06:09 PM
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I don't know diddly about horses so it looks like a good horse to me. Great story up

Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708792 04/20/15 07:09 PM
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Pretty cool story. Thanks for sharing.



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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5708988 04/20/15 09:43 PM
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That is GREAT! clap

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Awesome! up


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Total greatness right there. up


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Awesome! up

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Wow!! That is awesome. What a beautiful animal and young lady. I remember watching a National Geographic special years ago about the original "Horse Wisperer". It showed him winning the 1982 or 83 AQHA reining championship on a mule. It completely embarassed the association. The following year's rules stated one must compete on a quarter horse.


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Nice to hear that spending the most money doesn't guarantee a win. Sounds a lot like a Disney movie!!!

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Great story!


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Re: Beat'em With A Borrowed Mule [Re: dkershen] #5709832 04/21/15 02:39 PM
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Great story.


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Hehe! I love an under dog story. up


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yrs ago there was a mule that was winning a bunch of NCHA events, if I remember correctly, they outlawed the mule, mules special kind of animals, takes special hand to make a good one.


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