First Time Champs *pics*

[*April*]

Okay as most of you know I was gone to a horse clinic/show for a week!

I had a blast!!

Tue:

We left the barn and we had four girls in the truck with mark! Haha! It was sooooo funnny!! Two of the girls drove him crazy. lol!!
Then when we got there we all set up and we had one stall for tack another for dressing another for grooming/tacking up horses and another for junk stuff lol1!!

Wen:

I got money ready for our clinic. I lunged him first and he was really excited!!! SO i was kinda nervous about how he was going to act in the clinic. SO I got up there and mark ended up teaching the western class b/c the other dude wasnt there!
But money ended up doing AWESOME!!! He had an awesome jog. and he was really good with loping with everyone and stuff. Mark was very proud of him and liked how he acted with all the other horses.

That night one of the ladys had a pool party at her brothers place so al the girls went and swam (i didnt) and they all tried throwing in mark but NO such luck. But he did get soaked.

Thur:

Today money did GREAT in his first clinic and lunging before hand he was totallly fine!
and i also did another clinic with him that day! But he was VERY tired during it!! so we kinda cut the clinic short for him and I.

This night they had the costume contest. One of the girls at the barn did it and won her division! pretty sweet!!


Fri:

I lunged money for his clinic and he didnt even want to go. Lol. it was pretty funny!
Mark thought overall he looked nice. That his jog is looking really great and relaxed. We now just have to get his lope down with him using his butt and slowing it down just a bit. B/c his lope is at a pretty good speeed now!! woot!!

SHOW TIME!

sat:

Our classes on the show sheet said we wouldnt show till after 1pm.


SO we warmed up in time and was all prepared and we ended up not showing till at LEAST 2:30pm.
Money was SUPER tired and I was dieing of the heat. and i had to wear a helment instead a cowboy hat ... i dk stupid show rules and they didnt mention till right BEFORE we went into the show ring that we couldnt wear chaps!

SO this class SUCKED! His head was kinda everywhere. So we ended up getting 4th out of 8

Sun:


Well mark and linda (one of the ladies to help groom the horses) got money all prettyfied for halter and showmanship.

So we went down to the classes and Money and I got 1st in halter!! and 2nd in SHowmanship.

Then we were to show at 11:15 am for our championship class. SO this time mark got on him first since he knew i had some probs with his head the day before and then he showed me what to do while warming up. SO i got on him and did the same. Then like 5-8 mins later the class began. Money and i just kicked bootay in that class!! I thought for sure we may have reserved. But we ended up with.................





CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!



oKAY FOR pics!:::

no one really got much of me and money. Sadly. I was the one taking most of the pics. So no one really took any of me.
But here are just a few

Sat.
warmup:


after the class: (i basically tore off my shirt)


SUn:

Money with his BEAUTIFUL neck ribbon


Mark and I


and SOME of our ribbons from the barn:

[celina]

haha awww awesomee:)

he looks really cute!!

[Hannah]

awesomness april!

[paintbabylover0518]

so do all your classes have a champion?.. thats cool. we only hjave them for halter classes, like we do our normal class of halter (stock mares in one class, P/S mares in another, geldings stock in another.. and so on) then the 1st and second place from the halter class go into the champion class and then they do it agian... but thats cool that you guys have them for riding too

[*April*]

oo yeah the way you just described is what they do at the arabs show..

and then at some local shows they have it were it doesnt matter how u placed in those halter classes but as long as you went in them to qualify for the championship halter class

then for riding we have like for ex. walk/jog class then walk/jog horsemanship class, and walk/jog lope one at a time class , and then you had to be in at LEAST one of those classes to qualify for going into the championship class

hope that made sense! lol

[showgurl19]

aww great job!!!

[rose]

Whoa! Congrats!