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tohma2004Went to the horse show today. It was wierd because its the first time I have ever gone to one without my mom. She was sick today and I almost didn't go, but because it could be potentially the last one of the year I decided to go anyway. My father took me so basically he was no help in getting the horse ready, but its okay that part wasn't too hard to handle. It is also wierd because my father doesn't normally go to the shows.
I banded ZIppy's mane for the first time since Intercounty 4-H...8 years ago. They didn't look horrible but you could definetly tell I was out of practice..yet someone still commented on them and said it looked pretty, which amused me.
Anyway, it was a pretty big show so I wasn't expecting much. There were 20+ horses in every class and I was fearing the worst. I wanted to survive. But I ended up doing better then my expectations. I made the cut in the classes and I was beating "World Show" horses. Yeah...people that show every day and were telling us about how they went to the World Paint Show in Texas back in August. These people had money coming out of their ears. I wish they had spewed some in my direction.
Anyway, placings:
English Go as you Please - 6th
Egg and Spoon - 4th
Open Pleasure English - 5th
Pleasure Amateur Rider Hunter - 1st
Open Go as you Please English - 4th
I was robbed in Egg and Spoon. We reversed at the trot and one of the other riders plowed into me. Zippy got mad and tossed his head and I dropped my egg but she managed to keep hers -_- I demand a re-do.
My father took some video of the show so maybe I'll put it up later so you all can see Zippy do his thing.
After that we rested for awhile and then headed to Greensboro to the "Woods of Terror". It was a pretty good haunted house. There was a haunted heyride of Rednecks (I'm not kidding...there was a sign that said Rednecks Rule and all the actors were...Rednecks). We went through this Claustophobia thing where you had to squeeze through all these tiny spaces. There were these crazy funhouse moving things that made you incredibly dizzy walking through them. There was a haunted corn field and this one building where it was pitch black and people jumped out at you. There was even a Pirates section where there was apparently the actual treasure chest used in Pirates of the Carabean movie.
We just got home at 1AM since we went out to eat with my aunt, uncle, cousin, and a couple of their friends afterwards. The haunted house lasted about an hour but it was awesome because we had Quick Passes and were able to breeze right past all the lines and go directly to the front. They were only about $3 more because we bought them online.
So all in all a good day.
I banded ZIppy's mane for the first time since Intercounty 4-H...8 years ago. They didn't look horrible but you could definetly tell I was out of practice..yet someone still commented on them and said it looked pretty, which amused me.
Anyway, it was a pretty big show so I wasn't expecting much. There were 20+ horses in every class and I was fearing the worst. I wanted to survive. But I ended up doing better then my expectations. I made the cut in the classes and I was beating "World Show" horses. Yeah...people that show every day and were telling us about how they went to the World Paint Show in Texas back in August. These people had money coming out of their ears. I wish they had spewed some in my direction.
Anyway, placings:
English Go as you Please - 6th
Egg and Spoon - 4th
Open Pleasure English - 5th
Pleasure Amateur Rider Hunter - 1st
Open Go as you Please English - 4th
I was robbed in Egg and Spoon. We reversed at the trot and one of the other riders plowed into me. Zippy got mad and tossed his head and I dropped my egg but she managed to keep hers -_- I demand a re-do.
My father took some video of the show so maybe I'll put it up later so you all can see Zippy do his thing.
After that we rested for awhile and then headed to Greensboro to the "Woods of Terror". It was a pretty good haunted house. There was a haunted heyride of Rednecks (I'm not kidding...there was a sign that said Rednecks Rule and all the actors were...Rednecks). We went through this Claustophobia thing where you had to squeeze through all these tiny spaces. There were these crazy funhouse moving things that made you incredibly dizzy walking through them. There was a haunted corn field and this one building where it was pitch black and people jumped out at you. There was even a Pirates section where there was apparently the actual treasure chest used in Pirates of the Carabean movie.
We just got home at 1AM since we went out to eat with my aunt, uncle, cousin, and a couple of their friends afterwards. The haunted house lasted about an hour but it was awesome because we had Quick Passes and were able to breeze right past all the lines and go directly to the front. They were only about $3 more because we bought them online.
So all in all a good day.
