One of the reasons I was busier than usual this week is that I held my very first live show here in Holland. It was really fun! The point of the show was to give a low-key opportunity to practice with the "show one horse in many performance classes" system, which is totally new over here. Only four entrants were able to make it in the end (it was rather frosty the week leading up to the show), but I heard great things from all four of them. In addition, these guys just blew me away with how hard they worked to learn this new format! They all had horses entered in multiple classes, and one entrant managed to get her horse shown in both the other performance division and the english division, with great success.
The show hall is rather small, but I can fit ten entrants in it, and the price is right. I will be doing another one of these in April, this time only for AR models, CM models, and OF Minis.
Here are a few photos! M&Ms were my "ribbons", and the orange ones are for first place. It went Orange, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Brown.
You can see the whole album here, with many more photos of performance and OF Halter (the two divisions offered).
I also hope to have more photos to post later today or tomorrow, of the saddle I am finishing!
Thank you so much Erin, for organising this show! I had a blast and I learned a lot! Your explanations were really helpfull and I feel that I'm much better prepared for the big show now.
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