horse show

Last post I was asked about my roses.  The roses that I have around the yard I had found over the  years throughout our property.   As we cleared areas to brush hog or for the pasture, I discovered them.  They grow like wild grapes!   You cut them and they keep coming back.  In fact, I transplanted a couple that I found to under our front window and along the front of our house.  I am trying to trim and train so it will look like a flowering hedge under the windows.

Today was the first time Jess was in a horse show.   Our friend and neighbor who was kind enough to help both girls learn more about horses, took the time to trailer Jess over to the ring where she had lots of fun!

She and Rebekah practiced the last few weeks up the road in the ring, but Jess was the only one to enter today.   I hope Becky goes next month!

Jess entered in a few of the events, but not all.  She suprised us all when she won a blue ribbon for the Key Hole event.  You ride into the arena and have to pass through two cones that are four feet apart, turn tight, and exit out the same cones in a record time.  Four feet sounds easy, but not with the size of Dusty's rear!

She also entered the ride run in which you ride into the arena to a designated area and then jump off and run your horse back out of the ring.

 

She tried the cake walk where it is actually like musical chairs, except you are on your horse.  The music stops and the closest to the predesignated point wins a cake.

Her last event was the magazine race.  You ride in and find the page in a magazine that is announced by the MC, tear it out, and race back out of the arena and hand it to the person at the gate.

Mind you, everything is timed and there were a lot of fast horses.  They were divided into two classes: Junior and Senior.   Junior was 15 and below,  senior was above, of course.   The youngest was a girl about 4 that participated in events that were lead by an adult.  She did the pole bending event where you weave in and out of the poles.  She bopped along being led on her horse giggling the whole way.  Everyone was smiling and coaxing her along.  There were a few older people there too!   One man was propbably in his  60's  and he made pretty good time in the ride and run!