Just found out Ace will be *starring* in the new CPHC slideshow on their homepage…okay there will be 29 others but we all know who is the BEST!  No riding this week as Hurrican Fay remnants came over but tonight is our FIRST Showmanship lesson with Kevin.
I told him be tough – make me cry [...]

Just got home from the Carolina Paint Horse Club show and WHAT a show it was.  This was just a regular 2 judge show and we usually see 400-500 entries well when I pulled in  early Friday afternoon it sure looked to me like it was going to be big and I sure was not [...]

At the show this weekend a guy who I will call Old Timer was explaining what a western pleasure horse was and I really liked how he put it.
“A western pleasure horse should be representing a horse a cowboy would be riding home on after a long day at work on the ranch. It [...]

you put it in your blog!
I know that horse shows are just the opinion of one person but sometimes you just have to wonder what the heck is going on.  I really do not mind getting beat when it is deserved I also don’t mind when you have two or three similar go’s and a [...]

So I hunkered down to watch the Reichert Maiden Longe Line class and called my friend Jaime since I could not get it to work.  We ended up watching it together and comparing these horses to her TOM POWERS TOP FIVE LONGE LINE filly *Kompletely Krymsun*  Honestly I thought some of the horses were nice [...]

Very very strange show.
The Good…
Saw my friend Joyce and her daughter Lacey…Lacey is currently 5th in the Nation for AQHA Rookie. She and her gelding are awesome!
Ace got another .5 point in Western Pleasure this time in an All Ages class. She had a slight bobble that the judge saw or I [...]

I went to the barn and banded Ace and gave her a bath…looks like we are all ready to head out to the show. I am not sure what the turnout is going to be since the PHBA World Show was a few weeks ago and the AQHA Youth World is going on now. [...]

I finally talked the CTO into getting my blog going.  I threatened to dock his pay but since he works for free he is not really impressed.
The show season here in the Carolina’s is just about to restart.  Paints seem to take a break between June and August and now we are all back to [...]