HUS - 1st Place!!

4th of July Show

Ace had another great show last weekend - 4th of July - and showed off how awesome he is not reacting even once to all the noise from the fireworks when other horses were jumping out of their skin or trying to dig out of their stalls.

Top 3 placings in every class and another 2nd in halter.  This boy is just amazing...we started him pulling the cart but he goes for official hitch training next month.

Ace is really giving the stock horses a lope for their money.  Even the ones that have a nice slow lope don't look as controlled as he does.  And of course, none of them look as flashy with those feathers, heavy mane and tail!

Halter Boy

Don was feeling left out of the action of showing Ace and after seeing Madison show him in halter, he decided he wanted that job!  And he did it well.  Ace placed 2nd and 3rd in halter geldings over the June 26-27 weekend show at Ithaca against 12 horses each day!!

Ace's 4th Show - part 6 - Reining Class

While it had certainly felt like a long day with hustling from Shannon's classes to Madison's classes and back again, it was only about 3:00 when it was finally time for the very last class - reining.  This was another first for Ace and Madison both.  At least Madison had watched it before.  It wasn't bad!!  They turned the wrong way towards the end to get disqualified but if they hadn't, We're pretty sure they would have been top 3!

Ace's 4th Show - part 5 - Western Riding Class

As mentioned in part 1 - youth riders like to do every possible class they can and Madison is no exception. In spite of going in double classes Ace hadn't broke a sweat and looked good to go so...it was on to Western Riding Class - another first for young Ace and only the second time Madison had done it.

The pattern is pretty simple if long.  Trot over the pole, pick up the lope around the end of the arena, snake through the cones changing leads, lope around the other end of the arena then cut back to do a big serpentine back and forth the arena and around the cones changing leads, then after the last cone, swing up the middle, stop, back one horse length.

All that lead changing can challenge an experience horse.  Ace held it together longer than we though and then just changed leads every 5-6 steps or whenever he wanted!  In spite of that, they did the pattern correctly and won 3rd place!