Jayden and I loaded Dakota and Joe and headed to the arena for the fun show. Mark brought Jake later. Luke was with cousin Abby, and my parents came to watch. My parents have been so good over the years coming to all my rodeos and horse shows, and now they come to cheer on the grandkids. Jayden always does better for an audience, she likes her own fan club. I rode Joe before the show started. He has very limited vision, but he trusts me and was fun to ride. IT is sad to know I can't ride much and soon, he may be completly blind. Jayden started out riding in the walk trot class. There were a lot of nice western pleasure horses in the class of 16 kids. Jayden got second place. We were very impressed as there was some tough competition. She also rode in the western pleasure class, milk can race, and barrels. During one race, her pony did a little hopping on the run back and made Jayden pretty uneasy. She didn't want to run after that, however mommy gave her a pep talk, said a little prayer together, and she ran Dakota without a problem. Her pony also has lots of issues with her heeves. I had to give her injections a few days prior to the show to help her breathe. Jacob was covered from head to toe in white dust from playing in the white gravel. He was the dirtiest kid there. He got in on the pop foot race (1st place of 8), milk can race, and barrels. I led him through the events on my horse Joe at a trot. This year Jake is all about going fast. He kept kicking the horse saying he wanted to gallop. The kids had fun and got some nice ribbons.
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