First Show!

So we took Abby to her first show and she was fantastic! Friday afternoon schooling was a little rough since she went over all of 2 jumps. She got her head together Saturday morning and after a quick warm-up she jumped around nicely with only one refusal.

After a short wait and a ton of lesson kid chaos, Abby was in the ring and ready to go. Our first course began on the left lead, which is our sticky one, so I was a little worried but we got it nicely on the second try. Then came the jumps... and Abby was great! She took all of them in stride and for the most part maintained rhythm, pace, balance and composure though it was not at the traditional hunter pace. And she took the 2' jumps with scary flowers like they were 4' oxers. Buttt we got over them all!! The second course was even better. We nailed all the leads, changes and cleared every jump.

We were in a class of 20 or so with many horses who had no business being in a baby green schooling class and while we did not get a ribbon I was very happy with Abby. She definitely showed her class by staying together mentally as well as she did and by still performing her best. She was awesomeeeee.

Love my baby girl. Pictures will be up soon!