{"id":9180,"date":"2014-10-26T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:01:11","slug":"2014-us-national-arabian-and-half-arabian-championship-horse-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9180","title":{"rendered":"2014 US National Arabian and Half Arabian Championship Horse Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_0331 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15629474482\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3955\/15629474482_0b36ff749e_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0331\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My sister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellensnewblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen<\/a> and niece Jillian were in Tulsa this weekend to attend to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabianhorses.org\/competitions\/nationalevents\/usnationals\/2014\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. National Arabian Horse Show<\/a> held this weekend. I don&#8217;t know a thing about horses but I sure do love to attend the show. It is quite an event.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0318 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15629502212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3947\/15629502212_86d043765e_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0318\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is lots of money involved in Arabian horses. Jut look at this horse trailer.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0317 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15625982031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3950\/15625982031_5337b1e7e8_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0317\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The various horse farms that participate decorate up the their stalls very nicely. Televisions, bars, comfy furniture. It is really quite remarkable.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0334 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15442503998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3953\/15442503998_a180eb8de8_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0334\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the real attraction are the horses. They are incredibly beautiful and graceful and they have attitude. The best of them have the air that they are not quite under control.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0333 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15007861504\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3932\/15007861504_5e0a4a8123_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0333\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final event Saturday night is quite elegant. Green sawdust and the judges are all dressed up.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0341 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15442624697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3944\/15442624697_1aa2e56267_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0341\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can tell that the horses and their handlers have spent a lot of time training together.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0351 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/15629457922\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3954\/15629457922_d8b7e19d73_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0351\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll repeat myself, the horses are incredibly beautiful. I tried to get good photographs of them during the riding events but they are all very blurry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oLsuMuNUY50?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I did take a 12 second video that is not too bad. The horses are incredibly graceful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep going to this event as long as they have it in Tulsa is what I think. And you know something. The event is free for spectators. You just walk in and sit down in the general seating area like you owned the joint.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been to a horse show? 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I don&#8217;t know a thing about horses but I sure do love to attend the show. It is quite an event. There is lots of money involved in Arabian horses. Jut look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[1382,1349,1348,1301,1285],"class_list":["post-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses","tag-camera-critters","tag-ellen","tag-horse-show","tag-horses","tag-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}