Powder and I Spring Show Epic Adventure – 3

Saturday morning started out with feeding Powder around 7:00 am. About 7:30, Powder got her bath with a lot of focus on her white mane and tail. Bath was given by Jenny Vaught who knows a thing or two thousand million about getting a show horse ready. Show was to start at 9:00 am. We arrived at the show ground about 8:30 am. The show started at 9:30am with Showmanship. This is an online ground class. I do not “love” showmanship. I want to be in the arena riding my…

Powder and I Spring Show Epic Adventure – 1

I started this blog just to tell you about my Friday and Saturday shower experiences, but then the entire show experience story demanded to be told. Four days in Ava almost turned into a book! Stay tuned for the shower story.... Powder and I arrived at the Missouri Fox Trotter Showground complex in Ava, Missouri on Thursday afternoon. This show is one of two shows held by the association. This is the Spring Show and Three Year Old Futurity. Powder and I will compete Saturday in the Versatility events. I…

“Powder Perfect” Spring Show 2018

I showed Powder at the 2018 Spring Show. I was thinking about how different it was showing an experienced horse who knows more than me, compared to showing Cisco his first year. At the end of my reining patterrn, the judge summed it all up for my Cisco experience. At the completion of the pattern. I went over to show the judge Cisco’s bridle. He said, “Well, you lived through it.” I lived through Cisco’s first year of showing. That was the goal. Riding Powder was an experience on the…

Powder and I Spring Show Epic Adventure – 2

Early Friday morning came. Jenny got Powder tacked up and headed to the team sorting. By that time Chas and Mindy had begged Jenny to team sort with them too. How could she refuse? We discovered 104 teams had signed up. Jenny’s thought that her sorting would take ten minutes or so turned out wrong. She changed her morning lessons into evening lessons with her long-time clients. In sorting, you can partner with different people! Each team got to run cows twice unless they lost their cows the first run.…

Powder and the Spring Show Epic – 6/9/2018

I started this blog just to tell you about my Friday and Saturday shower experiences, but then my entire Missouri Fox Trotter Spring Show and 3 Year Old Futurity show experience story demanded to be told. Demanded! This story has morphed into a short book! Stay tuned for the shower story.... Powder and I arrived at the Missouri Fox Trotter Showground complex in Ava, Missouri on Thursday afternoon. Our purpose is to compete Saturday in the Versatility events and to have a great time with friends! Ava is 200 miles…

Parelli Adventure-Jenny & Nova / Tony & Powder

Pat Parelli invited the Vaught family to come and ride with him for an entire month this summer in Colorado.  All the extended family are thrilled that the Vaughts have this great opportunity.  This is just thrilling. The 2013 Spring went by and the great adventure was thought about.  Finally, real plans were in the working and finally, the making!  They left near the end of July and the first day of riding with Pat started July 24th.  I am very blessed that Jenny and Tony decided to take Powder…