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!!

December Foods & Nutrition Meeting

The Foods & Nutrition group met tonight and made homemade Christmas gifts. The girls made Friendship Soup Mix in a jar and Hot Chocolate Mix.

Pictured below from the left are Detri, Lauren, Riley, Jessie, Stacy & Nancy.

Detri assisting Riley and Lauren with the final decorations.

The girls showing off their jars. From the left Riley, Lauren, Jessie, and Jordan.

They all did a fantastic job and everyone helped make extra jars for their friends who couldn't be at the meeting tonight.

January 23rd is Favorite Foods Day.

For categories, guidelines, and judging rules check out the November/December Club Notes posted on the County website below:

http://cemadera.ucdavis.edu/Youth_Development/Monthly_Club_Notes.htm