paintponylvr
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After spending the day driving Bell and Bit at the USERL benefit trail ride at the Moss Foundation in Southern Pines, NC, I arrived home to find the pics from the photographer at the Spooker! How cool is that? Michelle McKenzie of Majestic Farm Training Center presented Oly (Kelly presented him in the Jr championship class) & Flashi this year .
I finally have a pic (nice one) of Oly - now a yearling stallion. Wish I'd known to ask the photographer to take pics in the ring - he wasn't out there automatically. My photos from outside of the ring didn't turn out that well of any of the ponies (ours). We did his ribbons wrong, tho, as he was the only one in his class (so only 2 - 1st places). He didn't go Champion or Reserve. He was shown as a Foundation yearling stallion.
Flashi is from our breeding program. I am THRILLED with how she is looking and doing and can't wait until the day we get to start driving her. Her dam is becoming a REALLY nice driving pony - and has a great work ethic! She placed 1st under one judge, 2nd under the other and took Reserve Champion Jr Foundation Mare under one judge.
I got several pics of the pair that I ended up presenting in the ASPC Draft Hitch class... None are great shots of them - but neat in their own right because it was our first class at our first show and we put together many elements that we'd only practiced separately previously. To say I was nervous is an understatement and yes, I do know that all the harness isn't quite right (I DID NOT attend the show thinking I would be showing this team - more in another post)... I had a great time, they did AWESOME and now there won't be a first class at our first show again. Here is the pic I like best of the ones taken by the show photographer. I believe we are starting one of the "Gee" (turn to the right) turns in the pattern here - not sure if this is the first class or the 2nd one. We did the maneuver much better in the first class than the 2nd.
I finally have a pic (nice one) of Oly - now a yearling stallion. Wish I'd known to ask the photographer to take pics in the ring - he wasn't out there automatically. My photos from outside of the ring didn't turn out that well of any of the ponies (ours). We did his ribbons wrong, tho, as he was the only one in his class (so only 2 - 1st places). He didn't go Champion or Reserve. He was shown as a Foundation yearling stallion.
Flashi is from our breeding program. I am THRILLED with how she is looking and doing and can't wait until the day we get to start driving her. Her dam is becoming a REALLY nice driving pony - and has a great work ethic! She placed 1st under one judge, 2nd under the other and took Reserve Champion Jr Foundation Mare under one judge.
I got several pics of the pair that I ended up presenting in the ASPC Draft Hitch class... None are great shots of them - but neat in their own right because it was our first class at our first show and we put together many elements that we'd only practiced separately previously. To say I was nervous is an understatement and yes, I do know that all the harness isn't quite right (I DID NOT attend the show thinking I would be showing this team - more in another post)... I had a great time, they did AWESOME and now there won't be a first class at our first show again. Here is the pic I like best of the ones taken by the show photographer. I believe we are starting one of the "Gee" (turn to the right) turns in the pattern here - not sure if this is the first class or the 2nd one. We did the maneuver much better in the first class than the 2nd.
