Excellent Evening

Whistle Stop had a fantastic showing at Middleton yesterday. Kelly Rees (another trainer at the farm) and I both had students at the show. We have to say a huge Thank You to Suzy for agreeing to feed so that so many of us could be away from the farm. Suzy was in fact showing herself, but at the end of the day. She came down and schooled at 2. Then went back to the farm to feed, and came back to Middleton to show.

Everyone met their goals last night. Almost everyone won a class too. Houston gave us a scary moment as he got slightly overheated and had to scratch after his first class. Which he happened to win. I decided at the 11th hour to show Em. I've never jumped her over more than a pair of fences and never higher than 2 foot. Em historically has been a huge bucker after fences. We showed both 2'3" open and 2'6" open classes. Unfortunatley on the 2'3" I forgot the jump off course and we went off course. That left us tying Amie for 6th. Then in the 2'6" we had game on with not a single buck anywhere we were able to push the speed and won our class.

Gia's goal with Jessie was to go as slow as she could. She still managed to win the class somehow. It was a great outing for Jessie. None of her normal nuttiness. I think she's finally growing up.

Julia who owns Little Joe Kaijsa's old pony won 2 of her classes in great style.

The prizes yesterday were nice Ariat backpacks, tack store gift certificates, breyer horses, and saddle pads. The ribbons were less than desireable, so that was a good reminder that it's not about the placings, but about meeting our goals.