More later...gotta go get a few horses off the pasture!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Trailer is almost loaded, Amanda is bringing Brooke over tomorrow, and we will leave out of here for the loooooong drive to Virginia. I have some DVDs, my Honda is loaded and full of gas (still gotta find out about the helmet laws!) and I am taking my Sugar dawg with me for company! Amanda's mom will drive her Prius up there and once we get settled, we are going to see about taking the kids on a ghost tour! Brooke will get all of Tuesday and Wednesday to relax as come Thursday, all the competition will be ON!
More later...gotta go get a few horses off the pasture!
More later...gotta go get a few horses off the pasture!
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Got my niece's show shirts made, lessons given and sent them off to Fair which starts tomorrow. The new horse I bought for the older niece is going to have to have an "oh what the heck, let's just try this" year. She has the softest sides of any horse I have ever been on. Not many patterns call for 180 degree turns at the lope, like right NOW. No way should could ride her HS. We did buy her as a gaming horse mostly, so I suppose you have to give and take a bit.
Anxious to hear how yours did. 4-H must be different there than it is here. We have a State Fair, but that is as far as they can go with the horse. They can go Nationally in Presentations, Speeches, Horse Bowl and Judging. Oh and Records.
Oh boy...this Virginia was the best and the worst...the worst was the western judge...she totally by-passed kids doing anything correctly and choose crooked back-ups, heads in the air, weird presentations (like the girl in showmanship with her long hair hanging out of her helmet, her horse's tail inserted incorrectly, and the horse walking out of the pivot!) We were dumb-founded. But then the english showmanship judge was one of our all time favs, Dale Barnett out of Kentucky...we have always LOVED this guy as he incredible fair and amazingly coherent! Anyhow he choose a horse we bred, raised and trained (sold 2 yrs ago) first in english showmanship out of 162 exhibitors!!!!!!!! We cried our eyes out; he was one of those horses that was hard to sell but when ya got too many and someone offers you a good price, you sell.
Anyhow the western judge was so weird...she had her favorites, that's for sure!
I am headed to State Fair this weekend. My youngest neice won everything at Fair, 3 Champions and two Reserves, therefore qualifying for her first State competition.
I knew the other neice would have trouble this year and, sure enough, she couldn't get her to back and gave a jerk, got a rear. heh. We had made the mistake of working her in a snaffle for the whole two weeks she was here and they didn't get enough warm-up in the bit. However, this is the first year that the girls had to compete against each other...when they were juniors, they shared a horse, so whoever had the highest scores went into the championship class. This year, as intermediates, they both made the championship class in showmanship and were Champion and Reserve. The older one won, so all that hard work with her paid off and she got to win something with her new horse.
My brother got in big trouble for sending them to my house for two weeks--they missed their club horse show and camp. With a busy two-teenager schedule I can only work out certain times to have them and we all feel it is very important. Secretly I was stoked that they pretty much cleaned up ^^
Time at the aunt's is worth it! Some understanding would be nice tho.
It really sucks when judging is bad. Part of me wants so bad to withdraw my AMMY status and become a 4-H judge just to add my 2 cents of fairness into the deal. In Oregon they have to go through a training, but training doesn't matter much when they use the show as a popularity contest or to help favorites. Or, in our case, we have a couple of judges that like to 'give something to the ones that ususally don't win'. What is that all about? Sorry that happened to you.
I am happy you got to see one of "your" horses win tho! That is so exciting. One of my mother's and my goals was/is to see one of the horses we bred win a World Championship. Me riding would be a bonus :-)
Yeah I heard back about the APHA world show...some serious shit went down...I joined some kind of e-mail list that is going to work on getting some new ideas in front of the powers that be...had to do with the judges too. Which has MY serious complaint all these years!
But I also read The Chronicle which is published here in Ocala...apparently the Appaloosa Horse Club is going thru some serious CRAP too...they dumped OKC for their world show and used Jacksonville but they did it without much permission from board members...Oh yeah, that club will be around in the next ten years! NOT!
Sorry to have been so GONE lately but I am trying to make deadlines on some art work and get ready for a seriously busy fall schedule of either Paint horse shows, open shows for training the new kids (my daughter's clients) or flying out of state to judge 3 art shows! I get to go on a mountain trail ride in Colorado on one of them! WOOHOO!
Will get some new postings in shortly...
Congrats on the neices' wins...we got everyone on new horses and it will be a better year upcoming...Yeah I think about dumping ammy status and going for a judges' card but not just yet...
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