The judging competition in Rapid city went very well for my team. Lots of really nice horses, and some average ones too, I didn't think Aspen matched up the the AQHA show horse as far as the way she is built but she would have fit in very well at this show! Judged many classes and became pretty confident before the actual judging competition, we judged a western pleasure class, reining class, and trail class for our performance classes. Then three halter classes, but there were no true halter bred horses... We were given twenty minutes to write and memorize two sets of reasons, one on a halter class one on the western pleasure classes, this was my fourth time ever trying this. Reasons were a little rough for everyone, but we got thru them. I ended up with 1st place individual judging performance, and 4th overall, as a team we got 1st place collegiate team and 2nd place team for reasons overall. Not a bad trip!
Aspen had a little bit of a temper tantrum in class on Wednesday, she didn't like the big heavy rope being tossed over her back at all. But today she did it perfectly, didn't change her speed even slightly. She gets to start wearing the saddle on Monday.
Rain was a little moody this week as well, she didn't like that I had to use spurs on her to get her using her shoulders correctly. We are going on a trail ride tomorrow, so hopefully that will giver her a chance to get a break form all the arena work and come back refreshed and ready to not be moody about arena work.
Aspen had a little bit of a temper tantrum in class on Wednesday, she didn't like the big heavy rope being tossed over her back at all. But today she did it perfectly, didn't change her speed even slightly. She gets to start wearing the saddle on Monday.
Rain was a little moody this week as well, she didn't like that I had to use spurs on her to get her using her shoulders correctly. We are going on a trail ride tomorrow, so hopefully that will giver her a chance to get a break form all the arena work and come back refreshed and ready to not be moody about arena work.