Heart of IL Fair

Well this wasn't the best performance the kids ever put on but it sure wasn't the worst either. They had some obstacles to over come, the first was the hard arena floor. It was packed down for the hitches, then the noise from the wagons, jingling and thumping around, Ribbon was up and scared. Steven had his hands full trying to keep her in a steady trot. Karin stopped her within the first few moments of the performance and tightened up the side reins, then Ribbon listened a little better and by the end she was actually doing very well. Too bad they couldn't practice at least once in the arena. Oh well there is always the next performance. Sarah Reinhard said I should put the video up on youtube and call it vaulting bloopers. I'll have to look at the video and see how bad it look, though I may just do that. The audience seemed to really enjoy it and there was a lot of applause when they were finished but most of them had never even seen vaulting before.