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