Sunday, April 25, 2010

State 4H Horse Classic Educational Contest

On Saturday, April 24, we took 5 girls from Madera County 4H Clubs to the State 4H Horse Classic Educational Contests. They have been studying and practicing hard since the end of January in preparation for this contest. We left Coarsegold at 6:50 am and arrived at Reedley College just after 8:00 am. (after a small detour throught the Golden Arches DT) The girls got checked in and awaited the start of the hippology contestants meeting. They then proceeded on with the written test, stations, slides and team problem.
At 12:30 we made our way to the horse arena/ag pavilion area where the RC Ag dept BBQ'd hamburgers for lunch. At 1:30 they started with the judging contestants meeting, and moved right into the horse judging portion of the contest. The girls judged 7, yes, 7 classes - ranging from halter, to hunt seat equitation, to riening. That concluded at shortly after 6:00 pm., then we got about a 30 minute break, before the start of the demonstrations. We did not enter this portion of the contest, but had some friends who we wanted to watch. WOW, did we see some Awesome demonstrations!
L to R Christine, Savannah, Jordan, Jessie, Karah
During the evening break
Around 8:00 pm we began making our way back across campus to one of the classrooms, where the awards presentation was to take place. The girls (all of us, in fact) were quite tired. We were treated to a short slide presentation from the California Horse Classic team, about their trip to Denver, CO - where they took the National Championship!
Then the presentation of the awards for the day....


When all was said and done, the girls had collected 30 TOP TEN placings!
and OUR JUNIORS had WON HI-POINT JUNIOR TEAM
in both HIPPOLOGY AND HORSE JUDGING!!
Hippology team was: Savannah, Jordan and Christine
Horse Judging team was: Jessie, Jordan and Christine
( they take the 3 top individual scores, to make the team points)
And Karah learned that her tenth and eighth place finishes were just behind several of the team members who had just won the National Championship!
IS MADERA COUNTY AWESOME? OR WHAT?
Of Course, we already know Raymond 4H is Awesome!

We had a great time.


Individual placings

Karah - Senior Division

Hippology Contest

10th/stations, 10th/Slides & Test, 10th/Judging

Horse judging Contest

10th/Perfomance, 8th/Halter

Junior Division

Hippology Contest

Jessie - 9th/stations, 9th/Slides & Test, 7th/Judging-9th Overall Individual

Jordan - 6th/Stations, 7th/Slides & Test, 3rd/Judging - 6th Overall Individual

Savannah - 2nd/Stations, 5th/Slides& Test, 9th/Judging - 7th Overall Individual

Christine - 3rd/Stations, 1st/Slides & Test, 2nd/ Judging- 1st Overall Individual

Horse Judging Contest

Jessie - 4th/Performance, 6th Overall Individual

Jordan - 7th/Performance, 8th/Reasons, 5th Overall Individual

Savannah - 10th/Halter

Christine - 5th/Performance, 9th/Reasons, 9th Overall Individual

Friday, April 23, 2010

Chowchilla Fair Horse Show 4-17-10

Alexis, Sapphire, Jordan, Dollar, Ringo, Savanna, Jessie, Babe
The Raymond 4H Horse Group

Savannah and Ringo took 1st in both their English classes.

Savanna was so "FOCUSED"


Alexis took 2nd in Jr. Trail

Four 1sts and a 2nd in Gymkhana

And 4th in ALL her Western classes.


Jessie was 1st in Jr Showmanship, 2nd and 3rd in Western and 1st in Jr Trail.


she got 1 1st, 3 2nds, and a 3rd in Gymkhana


Jordan was 2nd in Int Trail and got 4th, 5th and 6th in Int Western

2nd in Barrel racing, and 3rd and 4th in rest of Gymkhana

They were all GREAT. We all had a fun day!
What more could we ask?
Hi Points, All Around Horse and Outstanding Horse Exhibitor will be announced at the
Exhibitor Breakfast May 16.
I am confident we will pick up a few of them ;)