College Royal!

Thea attended her very first show last night! College Royal is a show held for the students at NSAC, where they can show their animals. This was actually only the 2nd year they've done a horse show. They're more into the cows, sheep and chickens around here LOL. We entered Advanced Showmanship. I was debating on whether to enter beginner because Thea was definately a beginner seeing as I had only worked her many 4 or 5 times in showmanship. But since I had shown (and placed) showmanship classes in AQHA breed shows... I didn't think it was fair to the other students!

We were supposed to have 5 people in our class, but it ended up only being 3 of us. I was so proud of how Thea behaved. She was listening, standing and doing everything I asked of her. I was expecting her to be spooky, jumpy, and not wanting to stand still! We had a good pattern, the judge even said so, but the onyl problem was that I forgot to back up in the pattern!! Ahhh. We got 3rd out of 3 because of me. Oh well. I was more than pleased with her though :) I have a feelign she'll be a nice showmanship horse like her sister Mascouche!

Here are a few (bad) pics. One of my lovely banding job of her mane, and the others of us before heading over to the indoor arena.