Barn Life

"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
-Winston Churchill

Monday, August 22, 2011

Green River Saddle Club

Saturday, Faith and I went to the Green River Saddle Club's annual pleasure show.
Unfortunately, it rained.
Fortunately, the show went on, and Faithers and I did well.
We did a couple of halters, and we got fourth in one of them. Then we did Showmanship and got second. I think being out of the arena (they were allowing the arena to dry a little) maybe messed us up a bit, because we stopped too close the the last cone. Oh well. We learned not to do that.
Then Faith was a bit antsy during walk-trot pleasure, so we got second (Out of two people, but that's still good, right?). But we got first in Pleasure! Figures....
Then came Equitation! I love Equitation so much, and I don't know why..... But I got first in it!
A friend that I made, Eva, talked me into doing egg and spoon, so I got third.
And so that was our show. :)

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Camp Tuckabatchee Horse Show

Today I went to a horse show, despite the fact that Faith is in heat. We won five firsts, two seconds, and one fourth.
Got the firsts for Equitation, Walk-Trot Equitation, Trot Flag, Trot Barrels, and Trot Plug.
Got the seconds for Walk-Trot Pleasure and Trot Poles.
And I got the fourth in English Pleasure.
Faith got antsy during the gaming classes, but really antsy after them, right before egg and spoon.
In egg and spoon, they asked us to canter right away. I dropped it. (most everybody did)
I also did the potato race, which is just like plug, except you drop a potato in a bucket.
All in all, it was a good day.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011