The state show was GOOD and BAD...Good because the kids we took (my daughter is their trainer) are terrific well grounded kids...no spoiled brats or drama queens...Bad because first Clyde got sick the moment he arrived...down he went...Collicked three times. He is 26 yrs old (you wouldnt know it to look at him) Then Truman got sick (22 yr old qh) so that Carra couldnt finish showing her classes with him. Then on the afternoon of the last day, Sugar collicked and was taken to Gainesville with a blockage...she is okay now but WTF!!!!!??? Bad because, once more, Florida weather puked all over us! RAINED and stopped, RAINED and stopped...ENOUGH already!!! Take your freakin' lightening bolts and jam 'em where the sun don't shine...
Anyhow Kaily did awesome (pictured above wearing the shirt I made her!!) as she and her 3 yr old "Elmo" cross the water box...she got incredible placings for her first even state show...she ended up 6th high point 13 & under. She got a 2nd in showmanship out of 61 kids, a 4th in trail out of 70+ exhibitors, and her whole weekend went on like that.
So on Monday we have had a crazy round dance to find all the kids new YOUNGER horses...Jessica, Clyde's mommy, is going to come out next weekend and try out my mare Foxy...She is a lovely rider and I think Foxy will like her a lot. Caitlin's adult client Priscilla may loan Carra her show mare "Zipproof" and Melanie, Sugar's mommy, is about to lease the little darling pony out to a child rider and move onto a big full-sized model herself.
I wish I could have had parents like me and these kids'...I would have enjoyed 4H so much more!
So now since Carra and Amanda didnt make the points needed to go to Virginia, we aren't...Amanda got ripped off...the english judge was so weird. She placed a bucking warmblood that loped his trot pattern SECOND in the HUS class...still scratching my head over that!
Oh well...by next summer, these kids will be spectacular and then regionals is held in Oklahoma!!!!!!!! Jeez...
2 comments:
What do you feed? Alfalfa or grass hay? My mother always insisted that alfalfa made horses colic more than anything else. And in a herd like that I would suspect the feed. It is odd otherwise to have so much trouble with colic in one show. It must have been very stressful. Teresa, my trainer had two that had to have colic surgery in one year once, one at the world show. icky.
I keep my horses on probiotic all the time and double at the show. Seems to help. That and an on the feed electrolyte supplement. Then I cross my fingers and do the horse health dance. Whatever works :-)
Here in Florida bermuda grass is to blame for more colic as it is so fine...the horse chews it down too fast and it balls up. Alfalfa isnt a problem here.
I think the heat might have been the issue...it was pushing almost 95 and the humidity, rain, lightening, and the stress of this huge show didnt help!
We use aloe vera juice just before a long trip and a big show. Seems to calm the stomach some...works on ulcers too!
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