(Waiting to get into the arena for practice and posing for mamma.)
I love it that our Ella is not shy of getting taking care of business.
This is Love
Mrs. Heather Jayne Hill braiding Kipper's tail.
Masterpiece:
Almost ready to go:
Ready for a quick warm-up. After spending a lot of time getting the horse ready there wasn't much time left for practice but Heather assured Ella that she would be fine. And she was more than fine, she was excellent.
The confidence, calm, and composure Heather instills in Ella are simply wonderful.
Her seat position was never this good.
The show was starting:
She did beautifully well and scored blue ribbons in two classes and placed second and third in the other three classes. She would have gotten another blue ribbon if it weren't for a difference of opinion/judging between the AQHA and the Jumper/Hunter judging standards. Ella and Heather were pleased so that is all that counts.
Walk-trot
Looking beautiful out there, both her and Kipper:
Ready for the next class:
Kipper getting some love and thoroughly enjoying it:
Andrea trying to pose while keeping Kipper away from her purse. You see, she had cookies in there and he smelled them!!
Love our Andrea!!
Some much deserved grazing after the show:
The perfect team!!
More grazing:
Note how carefully she holds the halter so it doesn't touch the ground. It's not supposed to in case the horse steps on it, it can get startled.
Extremely proud and happy:
Sunshine!!!
Beautiful flowers from Andrea and Shu:
These guys are simply amazing and the best friends of all!! We so appreciate the love and support always.
And a few more:
Un-braiding the tail: I have to admit that I was a bit nervous that he would eventually kick. He had been so nice and calm. As it turns out, Kipper is indeed a very nice easy going, loving horse.
Hrishi and Shu messing around. We were suggesting that we make a wig for Shu from some of Kipper's tail.
After the show, we came home and had turkey chilli with greens and black beans cupcakes. Pretty and yummy!!
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