This was the first enjoyable year and best fair ever for me! No I wasn't there with an animal showing but I was their watching my sister show my horse, her horse, and her lamb. She did great! It was a long, hot week, but the absolute best to me!
It's the best to me because of how well Erin and Daisy did. Erin and Daisy only started really working well together in June. Erin has never spent much time on Daisy because she is mine and she had HotRod. But then things happened. Since Erin's new horse, Chuck, is so young, Erin decided using Daisy for fair would her best and most successful option.
At first, Daisy wasn't too sure about Erin working with her so much, and she certainly wasn't too sure about being ridden twice a day! She was having to work so hard. All the hard work each Erin and I put into training Daisy this summer and belief in her paid off! Miss Daisy performed so well and worked so hard at fair. She and Erin did well enough to make it to State in Performance and Games. On top of 4h events at fair, Erin ran sponsor flags with Daisy at the rodeo all three nights. Both were tired girls at the end of the week! Erin also showed Chuck in one 4h event and at the Open Show Saturday. Erin also did well with her lamb making it to a couple Championship Rounds!
I'd say the best thing about last week, though, was watching a horse who had lived an easy life in the pasture step up to the plate and clean up in ribbons. Daisy did well because she had an experienced rider, Erin guiding through everything new to her!
Here are pictures from last week. They show that the week was good but they don't show that the week was actually really GREAT!
Erin at the camper trailer on the night before fair started. My mom, sister, and I enjoyed having Bell to stay it but it was always toasty and cozy.
Daisy managed to flip her hay bag up, over, and out of her stall on the first night. She was a little nervous in her stall.
Daisy looking so pretty!
Erin riding Daisy with the Ameristay sponsor flag!
What I wish I looked like and was doing Saturday afternoon of fair. This little boy fell asleep in line before he even got to order his ice cream! It was so cute. I had to take a pic of him.
Erin, Daisy, and I after the rodeo Saturday night!
Daisy in her stall Saturday night waiting for Sunday morning to come so she could go home. Look at all those Reserve ribbons and State Qualifier ribbons!
Saturday morning I wondered over to the rodeo grounds to take a look at the bucking stock. The bulls were rude and just stared at me and walked away when I tried to take a picture.
I was really surprised to see the bulls and mares with babies hanging out in the same pin.
Erin and Daisy made it in the Columbia Basin Herald!
The horses back home Sunday morning. They are happy to be back in their open space and out of the confinement of stalls. My mom, sister, and I are also happy to be out of the confinement of Bell. :)
The week of fair was a good, fun, and busy one!
