On 3/7/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the place - not far off of US 321, just north of Gastonia, right? > Emily showed there a few times many years ago.
Yep! That's it. They do the individual call the breed into the arena demo thing, you can have a booth back at your stalls, and then they call all the breeds into the arena for a final showoff. Next year I don't know that I'll show back for the final showoff. We had about 30 - 45 horses in that arena, and my girl had some issues when we got crunched in traffic. A bucking 17hh paint has a way of clearing traffic, but it was pretty high stress to *not* run over someone and we kept getting cut off because most of the horses there were trail horses and their owners don't understand arena etiquette. The rules call for the horse to be shown how it is usually ridden. In the SSH/TWH classes there were 2 people in full show get up, 2 people in western trail get up, 1 in endurance stuff, and me in the Dressage saddle, biothane bridle, etc... I glittered her hooves and show groomed her, but most of the trail horses weren't even clipped to come! I'll call Linda this week and get her contact info and email you guys with it. I plan to take the TWH and the SSH this year. Steph -- "Brutality begins where skill ends." "Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for rider and horse from the very beginning through the highest levels." Von Niendorff
