July 10th Spur of the Moment Horse Show

Equestrian Girl and I love doing the Spur shows.  We have lots of friends there and the announcer loves us and makes a really big deal when we win.  We like that.  This show was going to turn out to be a hot one though so we planned on getting done early by Equestrian Girl skipping western classes.

First up was Showmanship Sweepstakes.  These two girls rotated first place every show last year but then Mac moved up an age group this year so they haven't been competing...until today!  But the judge really threw them for a loop when she started asking questions after their pattern.  Mac won.

But Equestrian Girl still had a great pattern and made the judge laugh.

Our little purple princess friend also did VERY well this show and was letting Alvin know it.

These mom's and grandma are at every show to watch and help.  The two on the left are mother/daughter.  They are so sweet.

This is their kid/granddaughter.  She's sweet too.

This is her horse.  He's sweet when he's not asleep.

I had a new friend in my classes this show.  Rachel was riding Sheri's 3 year old, Walter.  Rachel is really a hunter jumper rider so she wasn't about to do the western thing.

Another old friend showed up too! Suzie used to take lessons with me WAY back before either of us owned a horse.  She bought Jackson just before we bought our first horse.  She's still riding English like we both learned but I'm more comfortable doing Western now.

My equitation is improving!  My legs are ALMOST back far enough!

But Rachel's equitation was better.  I won pleasure but she won equitation.  She's a lot younger.

Stanley is such a good boy.  He puts up with all this show foolishness with no complaints.

It was hotter than h*ll but we looked crisp and cool in our pink shirt, didn't we?  Same one Motocross Boy wore a few weeks before when he did his one class!

By midmorning jackets were optional because of the heat so our friend Sheri shed hers in favor of a long sleeve shirt.  She looked crisp and cool too.

Equestrian Girl kept hers on for this class but dropped it for the next one.

Then back into the black for trail where she kicked butt as always.  Look at Stanley just going along with what she's asking.

Sidepassing the log.

Lope over the poles.

Big finish along the scary woods but Stanley wasn't afraid.  He had his girl with him.

Then is was my turn.  Now he looks confused.  What the heck is she asking me?

Better on the bridge.  That's a no brainer:  walk forward.

And we came trotting around that last cone only to find out we had skipped one whole section of the pattern!  Oops!!!!  My bad.