Time to Show

Show day was finally here. Upon arriving to the barn I got Olly out and asessed the situation. One standing wrap missing. Not bad. It could have been worse. The bands stayed in and he was fairly clean, thanks to the ninja suit.

Beautifully banded mane

We head off to the round pen to lunge the stupid out. He is ready to go, but is listening well. After 20 minutes of some walk-trot transitions we head back to the barn to finish getting prettied up.

As we are on our way to the arena we see a few friends and they don't even recognize us! I am not sure if that is bad or good. It took us forever to get to the arena. He was walking like a western pleasure horse. I didn't want to really push him on because he NEVER is mopey and I didn't want to ruin a good thing. So we sign up for our classes and check things out. He has to pass by things 10-15 times before he is reassured it won't eat him. There were signs and noise EVERYWHERE! Suprisingly he handled it fine. No spooking and he even took 2 jumps, white ones. We went into two flat classes, Hunt seat Equitation and Hunter under saddle, placed 3rd out of five or six people. At least we didn't get a ribbon and were last in the class. He did just fine, but they were only walk-trot. Our next class...duh-duh-duh!!! Crossrails, Red, white and blue ones. WE had jumped them before so it was a 50-50 chance. Well, we were on the not good 50. Didn't even go over the first crossrail. I don't get it. We practiced over these jumps/ground poles for a week. I think that it was mostly me being nervous. We were both tense. We ended the day with two classes. The same as above but they were walk-trot-canter. We placed 2nd out of three...again not last. That was the goal.

That was the end of my classes, but Colton was just getting started. He was so ready to ride.

He even had his own jods! He looked like a jockey up on big ole Olly. We walked half way around the arena and reversed. He sat so proud on that horse. We lined up in the center and waited for the results. A tie for first! He was so excited! A blue ribbon to hang on the wall. He wore it all day long and I had to take it before bed. I am such a proud mama!

That ended the day. A blue ribbon for my Ocie! It couldn't have been better.

Be forgiving about the pics, my blog screwed up!