State Fair

Day 1

We were leaving at 11.
Yeah okay. It took two sweaty, 90 degree hours to get Harry in. I ended up not even putting him in. My dad reeled him in like a fishing line over the bar at the front of the trailer. It was complete nonsense for two hours: rearing and pulling and head tossing!
I ended up missing my first class, which was against all of the trainers. I was able to make the second class I was signed up for though! I think it was Pleasure Amateur Owners. There were 16 signed up and guess what! I got 6th place! He performed perectly and never once skipped out on me. The crowd roared when I was asked to back up. I was so thrilled and proud of Harry. This was our very first class together.

Afterwards, my brother rode Nina in Performance Youth and he took 4th place. She just snaps into show mode when she gets there, she absolutely knows what she's there for.


Day 2

Two classes today. I had Performance Youth and then the Performance Stakes class. Since I didn't get a place high enough for money yesterday, I wanted to win some today.
There were...I wanna say 10 kids in my Youth class. Harry skipped a couple of times and I kept trying to get him on the rail but he was going sideways. He wasn't paying attention to me and kept looking up at the audience. We got honorable mention.

I was going to ride Nina in the Pleasure Schooling class, since my brother didn't want to, but after riding her in the warmup for a while, I decided I didn't want to go in and make a fool of myself because I don't know how to correct her as well as my mom or brother do, so my mom rode her and took 4th again. She beat out Ray, so that pretty much made her entire year.

I definitely started warming Harry up too early for the Stakes class. I started when my brother was warming up Nina for the Performance Stakes class (they took 8th by the way). Close to the start of the class, I had to keep squeezing him on because he wanted to stop. In the class he never stopped skipping but we rode nicely on the inside of the rail and get this: there were 20 entries!!! We broke into a canter a few times but we diet get disqualified! Overall, I think it was a pretty good first show experience. He never got kicked out.


Day 3

Going home. Harry wouldn't load into the trailer still even with Annie and her mom Karla helping, so before we went to try a tranquilizer, Jane suggested that we take Taco out of their trailer and just switch horses on the ride back. So now Harry is in Karla's 2 horse trailer, all spaciously set up without the divider and Nina and Taco are having a lunch date in ours. It was too cute when Taco got in. He and Nina started nickering to each other in the most adorable way.