COUNTY RECORD BOOK JUDGING RESULTS

Well the results are in, and Raymond 4-Hers have done themselves proud, once again!

Savannah submitted our FIRST EVER, Secretary's book in time for judging and was awarded 3rd medalist.

Jessie acquired our FIRST EVER, COUNTY WINNER, with her Dog Record book.

Jordan and Savannah made us proud once again, by medalling in the toughest of all the categories, Horse, they were 1st and 5th medalists, respectively.

 Remember the judges don't have to award you a medal, if your book is not worthy, so ANY medal is a great testament to the quality of your book.   Not too shabby for our "Little" club.

Very proud of all of them!!

CA State 4-H Horse Classic 2011

Well, we practiced and tested and practiced some more. Then suddenly May 27 was here, and we were on our way to Davis. U.C. Davis was the venue, this year for the State 4-H Horse Classic Educational Contests. We had decided we would drive up Friday afternoon, so we wouldn't have to leave sooooo early Saturday morning to be there at 8 am. So off we went, after an uneventful drive, we had dinner in Stockton, and arrived at our destination around 8 pm. The "luxurious"(NOT) Motel 6 that the 4-H had contracted with.
Silly us thinking it would be an early night, with 5 tween/teen girlies in 2 motel rooms....
We were up at 5:30 and out the door to the first of the contests by by 7:30 though!! :) They started off Saturday with the Hippology portion of the contest. Including the Written test, slides, and stations. Then an hour luch break and on into the judging portion of the contest. Where they had 6 halter and performance classes to judge. All, however on video this year, due to the concerns with the EHV-1 virus.
At 6:30 pm Christine was first on the roster with her demonstration "Trenzar" - she did a wonderful job and was later awarded a first in demonstrations!
We took off, found a cute little Taqueria, around the corner, had some dinner (yummy, I might add) and headed back over for the awards that were supposed to be at 8:30 p.m. But, they were running a little behind.....

Finally, around 9:15 pm. the awards presentation got started. Now, let me inject this "little disclaimer" right here: There were twice as many contestants this year, as opposed to last. :)

Our girls came out with twenty one top ten placings! The Third Hi junior team in Judging, and the 2nd Hi team in hippology!

Then we went back for more on Sunday - (a 1/2 hour EARLY, because I didn't double check the schedule)our very first attempt at Horse Bowl. WHOOOO! was grueling..BUT! we ended up in third place!

Now, not to brag any - but aren't they awesome!

Here are all the indivudual placings:

Judging Contest

Jordan: 3rd/reasons, 9th/Performance, 1st/Halter

9th Overall Individual

Jessie: 8th/Reasons, 2nd/Performance, 8th/Halter

6th Overall Individual

Christine: 5th/Reasons, 4th/Performance,7th/Halter

5th Overall Individual

Hippology Contest

Jordan: 9th/Test & Slides, 10th/Stations

Jessie: 8th/Judging

Savannah: 5th/judging, 6th/Test & Slides, 8th/Stations

Christine:9th/judging, 2nd Test & Slides, 4th/Stations

6th Overall Individual

Senior Division

Karah: 10th Test & Slides

8th in Reasons

Chowchilla Fair 2011

Raymond had a pretty successful Chowchilla Fair. We had 3 girls show in the Horse Show, April 17 and two girls in the dog show, May 14. But Guess who forgot to take her camera! Silly me!

I did, however remember to take it to the awards ceremony on May 22. :) Alexis second Hi-Pt in Jr Gymkhana, Savannah 3rd Hi-Pt in Jr English/Western, Jordan 2nd Hi-Pt in Int. Gymkhana.

Jordan was 4th in dog showmanship, and Jessie was 6th.

Next we are off to compete in the State 4-H Horse Classic educational contests....

Livestock Expo 2011

March 26, 2011 was the date for the Livestock Expo, It was rainy, cold and wet, so the camera didn't come. But we are very happy to report a medalist in BEEF level 1 and a medalist in BEEF level 3!!
YAY!! Girls.

Small Animal Expo 2011

Betty and the girls after the skills day event.
Savannah and Tuff with Jessie and Dot
With their Expo certificates and medals.

Favorite Foods Day 2011

Five Raymond 4-H'ers attended the Madera County 4-H Favorite Foods Day, held January 22 in Chowchilla. There were many GREAT dishes on hand. All of our kids participated in Consumer Science Judging and Showmanship, and all of them came home with blue ribbons to boot! Hana, Ryan and Riley received perfect scores on their entries. Jessie's cake placed second in the "made from a mix" and Jordan placed second in Intermediate Consumer Science Judging.

GREAT JOB EVERYONE!

Hana's Cowpoke Cookies

Riley's Salsa appetizer

Ryan's Perfect Brownies

Jordan's Taco Salad

Jessie's Pig Cake
(we still have NO idea why that's it's name?)

Horse Expo 2010

Jordan, Alexis, and Jessie at Horse Expo. November 6, 2010

Jordan Certificate - Level 4

Jessie Medal - Level 3

Alexis Medal - Level 2

Another Excellent day with the Horse Project Group.

2010 Madera County Achievement Night

Alexis receiving her record book medal.

Savannah receives her record book medal

Jessie getting her record book medal.

Jordan receiving record book medal


2010-2011 OFFICER TEAM

Jessie, Savannah, Jordan, and Alexis

after being installed as our new officers.

Dog Show Winners

The Dog show was small, but mighty. The judge had nothing but praises for all 5 showmen this morning. The sit stays and down stays couldn't have been ANY better. Raymond girls took 1st, 2nd and 3rd in Jr Showmanship. They are ALL WINNERS in my book! An Excellent showing girls! Raymond 4H is excited to have such awesome competitors.

2010 Madera Fair Horse Show

After the show - everyone is in various stages of changing - getting comfy for the ride home. :) Jessie actually has her pants on under her 'jammies, a trick we have learned to keep pants cleaner before the show. I'm not sure what she was thinking here, but hey what do I know. Alexis and Savannah wasted NO time getting into their comfy clothes. Jordan, well she's always last, note the t-shirt in her hand...

Here they are! As they should be. Our group photo of the day!

They really are the BEST!

Alexis and Saffire (the only ones to make both days) won 5 firsts and 2 seconds in gymkhana, a first, a third and two fifths in the horse show, and the jr Gymkhana HIGH POINT!

Jessie and Babe won 1 first, 1 second, 2 thirds, and 2 fifths.

Savannah and Ringo ended the day with 2 firsts, 3 seconds, 2 fifths and the jr English HIGH POINT.

Jordan and Dollar brought home 2 firsts, a third and a fifth place ribbon for the day.....

Jessie, Jordan and Savannah will be showing their dogs this Saturday!

We have Record Book Winners!!

They kept after them - and even though they were still putting in the finishing touches at the last minute. It WAS worth it. Raymond 4H entered 4 record books in the County Wide Record book Judging. They were ALL horse project records - and THEY ALL MEDALED!!

Jordan - 3rd medalist

Jessie - 4th medalist

Savannah - 6th medalist

Alexis - 7th medalist

AN EXCELLENT JOB GIRLS!

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

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 ;)

Small Animal Expo - Medallists

Medallists at Small Animal Expo Feb. 21, 2010

Savannah - dog level 1, Jordan and Jessie - dog level 2,

Alexis - Poultry level 1

WAY TO GO GIRLS!

Bake Sale Success!

Raymond 4H'ers - you out did yourselves.....

A BIG HUGE THANK YOU!

To everyone who donated goodies and/or came out to work at the Bake sale this morning!

WE SET A RECORD *******$300.00!*********

(Well actually $299.52- but I dug around the bottom of my purse - added a few cents)

GREAT JOB EVERYONE AND THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING!!

Stacy

Favorite Foods Day

Our mini members - Riley and Lauren waiting on judges

Mike's "Sheep Cake Pops" won a third place

Jake's "Spaghetti Sandwich" was a hit!

Laurens' GIANT Cupcake - "so Hollywood" and WAY to cute!

Jordan won a cookbook, for first in Showmanship

Mike accepting his third place medal.

Jordan was third in Consumer Science Judging.

Jordan's "Beef Stew"

Jessie's Lasagna

Riley's "Checkerboard Sandwiches"

Christmas Carollers

Christmas Carollers

top row Savannah, Alexis, Jordan

bottom row Ryan, Peyton, Jessie

Club members along with Ryan, Stacy S., Nancy and I braved the COOL temps tonight in order to visit with about 20 of our local "treasured" seniors, and give them some special homemade Hot Chocolate Mix. Ryan even came along to help the girls sing. Then we went in and had some hot chocolate, cookies and visiting. A fun time was had by all.

There are no other events planned for the rest of the year....

Our next meeting is January 18, 2010.

Wishing you all

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!