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True Quest (yearling) took a first (only two in his class; Friday took a 2nd in aged mares halter (12 in class) and a 2nd in color (22 in the class). Prez only placed 6th in aged geldings and didn't place in color. I'll post some pictures and more details following -

Sunrise out of my dirty windshield. I was driving my car so I could do a breakfast run - hense, driving 65mph, and taking a picture at the same time. Don't think I'll make a habit of that.

Quest and Friday waiting for the show to start. Right about this time, a loose horse came running through.

Prez waiting for the show to start. Shortly after this, Tracey took Quest up to walk him in the arena so he could see what everything was. He's never been off the ranch except to be gelded. Then Bob walked Friday up to the arena to show her around. She was a backyard horse her whole life and a nervous wreck today. Then people are yelling "loose horse" again and Friday comes trotting up to the trailer without Bob. She had broken the chain on her lead line and took off - needed her buddies around her I guess. :)

Quest was the first one in the ring. Only one picture of him in this class. I realized that I couldn't take pictures and hold nervous horses and keep records all at the same time. I took the camera over to my niece and she took the rest of the pictures.

Tracey and Prez. After this class, we had a class that we didn't have a horse in :) so we were standing at the gate area holding the three horses and people started yelling loose horse again. This time it was a stallion that had broken his halter at the trailer and was running loose at the gate area with no halter. That was interesting :)

Tracey and Prez again. Now we realized we had a problem. Both Prez and Friday were entered into the color class but the way the judge was using the arena required a lot of walking and Bob wasn't going to be able to do that. We needed to find someone to show Prez. Fortunately, a friend did not have a horse in the color class and could do it.

Tracey and Friday. Friday calmed down, got her "look of eagles" going and acted like a pro.

Tracey and Friday.