Friday's Show

I pulled away with the trailer right at 6:30am and made great time, arriving at the beautiful farm where Lily was vacationing with her filly for the last 5 months an hour before I was expected. Jill was waiting, Lily loaded right up and was fine until she realized her filly was going to be left behind. The truck was gassed up early in Glasford, then again at the same station on the way home. The attendant commented on seeing the rig earlier and wanted to know where we had been for the day.
Arriving home by noon Lily was placed in French Fry's paddock as she had been picked up around 9:00am with Rhoda's help.
Karin came over after work and she and Rhoda took Ylse and Eliza out for a training session.

We were most impressed with how quickly Eliza is learning. She stood quietly for mounting once Karin finished her ground training,then did the trails excellent.

It was decided Rebekah will ride her in the parade, Anni will ride Sanna, and Rhoda Ylse. Karin will walk leading Sanna's filly. When Rebekah was told she would be on Eliza, she said "sure, wait is Eliza TRAINED?"
Rhoda was taking Bunni and Mika to the Pekin Riding club show and talked Karin into showing also.
Arriving at the show there are many trucks and trailers and it seemed like thousands of little kids on ponies, horses and mules. Of course I've always been a bit taken with the long ears!








Below is Carmen Calhoun on her pony Jazz. They also placed in the ribbons, Carmen gets Jazz flying.


The little girl on this little pony gave it a good try.

Well Karin had to borrow a Horsemeister shirt from me, pants from Diane and boots from Mike, then The first time Mika comes into the show arena he totally embarrassed Diane. Rhoda and Karin had only signed up for the speed classes and Mika comes into the arena pretty tentatively a bit scared and wouldn't go full speed even with Karin' encouragement.

Poor Mika's show name was Spider Pig. Now when Rhoda entered the ring on Horsemeister's Gaited Gal (Bunni) she was flying.

When she finished the announcer breaks in with "who thought Friesians could run!" we always did think it was hard to tell Bunni and Wynne apart, I guess she really must look like a Friesian.
It was a big class and they finished in the ribbons. The next time Rhoda entered the announcer says "Rhonda on her big beautiful Friesian!" the entire evening Rhoda was called Rhonda Meister and each time they announced her we laughed. We all kept picturing the real Rhonda Meister who is not a rider.
Karin and Rhoda brought Mika and Bunni over to where we were sitting and those horses watched the games intently. Each time the horse would fly down the arena and back their heads would turn first to the right then to the left.

We were sure Mika was trying to figure out how to do this stuff.
The second time Karin and Mika entered a class they did much better so Mika's watching worked. Karin was pumping him up in the warm up arena, circling quite a bit, we could see them and thought if Mika comes in dizzy and falls we are slinking out of here but it worked and they turned in a very respectable time and got a third place. Bunni still beat him but only by a few seconds.
We stayed until the barrel races, then loaded up and headed home. About 10 minutes into the trip, mom says "your phone didn't ring all evening" and I realized the phone was not in the car. We drove back to the show, found the phone and made it to the farm by 10:30pm too tired to download pictures until this morning.