Okay so I think it is time I spend the next year, all of 2009, going after my judges' cards...What an embarrassment this show was...total strangers kept coming up to me and telling me I was robbed/raped/screwed/WTF happened... Yeah, there we were, me and Cleo, knocking it out to our finest ability, and I was getting beat by loons sticking their reins straight up in the air, over their fricking heads, to do a pivot...Lindsey was there, she does fantastic...if it wasnt for her, Brittany and her mom Loretta I would have cried all the way home...I stayed over night tho; I didnt show today (english day, same judge) and I just worked the show and had a fine time...
I had fun in the long run, all by myself; me and Sugar and Cleo...My little dog is the cutest critter alive and Cleo was truly awesome...she did fantastic in western pleasure, and we DID NOT PLACE anywhere...wasnt all that big of a class...Maybe 15 horses...I know I didnt suck, possibly the best ride she has ever given me. Here's the run down....3rd in showmaship behind two crooked pivots (she did fabulous) 4th in disciplined rail (which he judged all wrong...what a jerk) 5th in horsemanship behind the worst rides and a 6th in trail which I did not expect...trail was judged by someone else and Cleo had a brain fart at the lope-overs...
I will ride her tomorrow and Crush too...he has had too long off. Next weekend is a double-judged Paint show in Apopka...