Show Blog!

Hi EA! So this past weekend (December 13-15) I went to my first show! Even though I’ve been riding for 6 years and have had many opportunities to show, this was my first🤷‍♀. I’ve decided not to have videos in this blog as there are a lot of them :sweat_smile: you can find some on my Instagram @anya_equestrian Also a little disclaimer because I know people are really opinionated about having grooms at the show: yes my barn had a groom the entire show, and that’s what’s regular in our area. However, it’s great if you do all your own grooming! This is just what my trainer prefers and what works best with hectic show days for us. With that said, here’s a little blog about what happened!

Results (in order of class):

Hunter over fences: First (of 9)

Eq over fences: First (of 9)

Flat Eq: Second (of 5)

Eq over fences (different division): First (of 8)

Flat Eq (different division): Third (of 7)

Hunter over fences: Second (of 6)

Eq over fences: First (of 6)

Hunter under saddle: Third (of 4)

Thursday

The show was open from Wednesday for barns to trailer horses in, but my trainer decided we would school them at home Thursday and then bring them that evening. Fame was so good on the way, and after my friend (that I was showing with) and I got our saddles, boots, helmets and gloves we were on our way to meet them!

The horses were unloaded and our stalls were set up! Fame made friends with the horse on the opposite side of his stall as well :sweat_smile: . We went home and my trainer finished our set up.

Friday

On Friday morning I went to the show to school in the ring I would show in! I got there and my trainer was schooling him and soon I got on. Fame was VERY fresh and I didn’t have a lot of brakes :joy: . But we flatted and jumped a bit and he was pretty good. With that we decided to call it a day. I went home exited to show over the weekend!

Saturday

Saturday was great! Fame was amazing and we ended the day at the top of our division with 3 firsts and 1 second. I ended up doing an eq class from another division and winning it! However, that meant I had to move up a division in eq for the next day (my first Sunday class).

I was super happy with the results because Fame didn’t usually do the best in hunter classes, as he is an eq/jumper horse. We were both tired, but exited for Sunday!

Sunday

On Sunday we were both tired :sweat_smile: but I got there early that day for an eq class! It wasn’t our best, because it was pretty big and Fame was fighting me not to go in a frame. But even with that, I was happy getting third in that with it being a higher division than the day before. After that I showed in similar eq classes to Saturday.

We ended up getting reserve champion of our division! We were actually only one point away from champion :see_no_evil: . I couldn’t be happier with Fame, he was amazing! I can’t wait to show with him more in the future!

If you’d like to see videos check out my Instagram @anya_equestrian

-Anya