STATE FAIR RESULTS

 Brooks was AMAZING this weekend!!! For his first time off property this long and his first weekend show he was phenomenal!!

All settled into his stall
for the weekend 

Once we got there it was great, we got all the things set up and got the horses settled into there stalls and our set up was great!!!

We schooled later that afternoon after we got settled and helped set jumps in one of the arenas.

Schooling the big kids jumps (2'3'')

After schooling we ate dinner and put the horses in there stalls and did pm shift and me and T decorated our horses stalls for Halloween! We got our decorations and put spider webs, orange lights, ghosts, and other Halloween themed decorations up. They had a stall decorating contest (we didn't enter but our decorations got put in) and we placed 3rd!!

My stall decorations 🎃

Once we finished decorating stalls T left and we went back to our camper to hang out until 9:45pm because the fair does fireworks every night at that time and we wanted to make sure the horses didn't tear down the barn, they were all pretty good except Brooks he was wildly crashing into everything in his stall and I tried to calm him down but he didn't calm down until a while after the fire works were done.

His gorgeous halloween themed braids

Friday i had my dressage classes and they ended up putting us in the outdoor (who knows why) and we flatted around all the jumps. The walk trot classes were fine but when it got to the open class it was way to crowded but we tried our best. I didn't work the hardest at trying to get and keep him in a frame because he was very anxious being away from Raulf so if I had to much contact (in his opinion) then he would shake his head a lot. We ended up placing 8th 8th and 6th for our 3 dressage classes.

Warming up for dressage!

Friday night I had my costume class and he was great we placed 10th out of a lot of riders and a lot of really really good costumes!! I also took him out of his stall for the fireworks and walked him around in one of the empty rings so that he wouldn't feel trapped (or hurt himself) and it helped him a lot!

COSTUMEEEE

Watching the fireworks

Saturday morning (7:30-8:00 am) we schooled our jumps a little bit before I put him up again for a few hours till my class at 12ish I was in the 2' division so the last class in the small jumping ring. I warmed up for my jumping class pretty well and i was happy with him, our first jump course was not pretty but my trainer said i did all the right things to get him around the course and i will say it was not an easy ride, we ended up in 8th. Our second course was better it was not pretty but it was prettier then our first one, we got 6th. Our last course the hack was amazing we were the only ones to halt right at the cone and back a perfect 3 steps!! i'm so proud of him, we got first!

Jump from the hunter hack

Saturday afternoon I had field hunter classes and he was great. We had go as you please first and we placed 3rd and then the other two classes were split and i didn't get a callback so I didn't place in either of those two classes.

Go as you please flat class!

Sunday morning I had dressage and field hunter again, I got 6th and 5th in my dressage and we didnt place in open again, and i got two 5ths in my field hunter.

Field hunter flat class

going back to the barn for a tack change

dressage flats againnn

So curly after the braids came out

Overall it was a really successful weekend and I'm so proud of Brooks for doing so well with everything that was going on. 

Our weekend winnings!

I got a ribbon stolen from me over the weekend... we all hung up our ribbons on our barn banner and i had this gorgeous 8th place with gold on it (as seen in the picture showing his braids) and hung it up with all the ribbons for the weekend and i got picture proof that someone took it and replaced it with a different 8th place. I'm super sad about that but it is what it is.