After the Show!

The Blue Ridge Classic Gypsy Show is over and now is the time for reflection and evaluation.  It is a time for me to readjust or reconfirm my priorities.  In this instance, it is readjustment time.  The big farms brought very few horses and the ones or one they did bring were perfectly trained.  They were the highlights of the show and in every sense of the word...show stoppers.  Though lightly attended (it could have been called, but management bite the bullet and the show went on!), it was a classy show with a handful of lifetime professionals helping us and setting examples to be followed.  "One should only follow the best".  Why should I learn from someone without a resume, so to speak!

Traveler did well as the green demo horse/pony and we drove in two classes...one for green horses and one open.  survived!  And came out with ribbons!  Cracker had a going over by Doug, the ultimate in chiropractics plus and in 12 hours...we had the old Cracker back with all his pizzaz.......wow!  Scratched him from a couple of classes and discovered....I must have adult attention deficit disorder...I can not do an obstacle course if my life depended on it!  Can't remember much more than three directions at a time.....need I say more!

Blue Ridge Gypsy Classic Show

It is Saturday night in Ashville, NC.  The air is cool, the day has been an experience,  and tomorrow is the last day for this event.  Though the second event of the year for us, we were almost not here!  Two blowouts, loss of trailer lights, temperatures in the 100's..plus short fuses! all contributed to a tense mood.  On the up side, the clinics were awesome and worth every penny of the $175 per person.  Today's classes went quickly ....lots of happy winners.  We had some difficulties when Cracker decided he felt like a new man and got frisky, would not stand still, was improperly harnessed which had the potential of a distaster at which time we scratched him from the class.  Not enough handling was the consensus, though it was unusual behavior from him.  My break from all the drama came when my sister and niece took me off to Ashville town center for dinner. The setting for this show is amazing and Robin and her crew are even more so...many thanks to her for a beautiful show. And good night one and all from a very tired lady!