stallion showcase

Well, it was a big weekend, but we took all three stallions to the annual Lower Mainland Quarter Horse Bazaar and presented them at the stallion showcase.

One of the things I love to do (and haven't caught heck for it yet lol) is to open the doors to my Curly's stalls, tie a lead rope across the door and let people visit with the boys. *Sandman and *Lex are such big babies of course and just SOAK up the attention from all the people. People always want to touch the curls anyway so I got tired of opening and shutting the stall doors and the are always amazed, of course, at how gentle the horses are.

I rode *Sandman for his presentation and it was very fun this year as I gave the commentator a recording of "Mr. Sandman" which I had them play before I entered the arena and it continued to play while I did my "freestyle" version of a dressage test. This went over very well and it was a fun song to ride to!

I showed *Lex in hand and he was very well behaved. I also showed Cap in hand and he was "very" well received - people sure love how he looks and are really impressed with his pedigree!

So it is a big weekend, exhausting, but fun and doing our part to keep on educating people about Curlies!

spring training begins in earnest

This weekend I had the wonderful experience of riding *Sandman in a clinic with Frances Weeks of Vernon, BC. Wow did we work hard and come home with lots of things to work on and think about! This was held at Leslie Walton's place in Oliver - she has a small, but very nice indoor and we appreciated being out of the wind and cold. It doesn't make for great photo opportunties, but I'll include a couple anyway.