Day one, Showmanship started the day off right! Jenny and Nichole won the open and youth showmanship classes! Nova and Velvet were in show horse success mode.
Tony and Powder joined in the next events and the ribbon sunumi started. The Vaught family flooded me with ribbons. Blue was the main color. In the youth events, Nichole and Velvet mostly won the blue ribbon followed by sister Caitlyn riding Attu. In the open events Jenny got most of the blue ribbons with Powder and Tony getting many second place ribbons and a few third place ribbons.
I have this great chair with the shade top. Today, it became the ribbon chair. At the end of the day, it was also the garland chair. Jenny and Nova won the Open Versatility Garland and Nichole and Velvet won the Youth Versatility Garland.
Pictures are on Facebook . At the moment, I can’t upload pictures here. Later…
We had friends show in the various events. Susan Breau showed in Western Pleasure and won the class. She was so excited and so happy to get that win. Before the class, she was bubbling over with excitement and nerves. She has also lost weight this winter and looked stunning in her show clothes with her shining happiness bubbling all over us!
Hope Kahout has to be the best dressed Western Pleasure rider ever. I will post her picture and you can vote for Hope as most wondrous. She rides a dark gold palomino and wore a turquoise outfit. Boy Howdy. Hope placed in the class and was a happy versatility evener!
Powder looked great in her new bridle. Last year her whiteness faded out her face. She needed a bling black bridle so we would see her beautiful green gold eyes with the black makeup. Oh she is stunning, especially with her cowboy rider dressed in a dark red shirt. It took a lot of finesse to get the cowboy rider to accept a bling bridle. Whew Powder is coming along looking improved over her three year old first season. Powder is four years old and is in the beginning of her illustrious show career.
Strolling around the versatility arena, I was asked if I “bought” all those ribbons. “Yes, I did in the entry fees!” I said! Another person asked me if I was sorry to be winning all the blue ribbons. I replied, “No Way! I’m happy that my horses are winning all those blue ribbons!”
I love the people in the versatility arena. They aren’t just people, they are my family twice a year.
Tomorrow is Ranch Horse Day. All three of my horses are entered in every event. There is only open Ranch Horse classes. This means that Nichole and Caitlyn are competing along with the adults. I predict that Nichole and Caitlyn will place higher in some classes than some of the adult riders. I’m glad not to be competing against Nichole and Caitlyn!
Report tomorrow. Pictures on Facebook. Rain missed us all day and hit us right before the horse show this evening. But as I look out McDonald’s window, the skies are blue. Happy to be dry riders are riding in the performance arena right now and the versatility people are watching and thinking about hitting the mattress!
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