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» Continued from Page 35 The hard work paid off and
Thue was the 2017 Canadian
Hanging upside down off a Trick Riding Open champion
horse feels like flying, she said, and reserve champion another
and there is nothing else like it. three times.
“It’s almost like you’re in While she still plans to com-
another world. For me, every- pete in trick riding competitions
thing else around me disappears and perform in shows, she said
and in that moment it’s just me she wants to start teaching les-
and my horse. You don’t realize sons and pass on some of the Corner of 1st
you’re performing for anybody knowledge she’s learned in her and Patricia
until you come up out of your career to the next generation of (right beside
trick and you snap back to reali- trick riders. NEW golden acres
ty,” she said. She wants to travel to teach LOCATION! boarding
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responsibilities, it’s just in the ties to benefit from. There is
moment.” a large trick riding community on the main
Thue is almost entirely self- in Alberta, but the community concourse.
taught. In total, she said she got is smaller in Saskatchewan —
a lesson once every two or three where Thue grew up — and in
years, which made it difficult to Manitoba. As a result, it was
improve her tricks. It is harder harder and more expensive to Save this ad and get
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