I was asked and accepted the challenge to judge the equine portion of this year’s Block and Bridle Little International at Virginia Tech. I had shown in it every year for my four years in collage and was overall Reserve Champion my senior year.
Back in the olden days, we had to halter break and show yearlings. I think we had two weeks. Now they use the school’s riding horses. The yearlings may have been better behaved.
There was an acceptable audience.
I had 13 horses divided into 3 categories, advanced, intermediate and novice. By the way, this is all judged on Showmanship. Each division had a different pattern. They knew the pattern in advance. There were still lots of issues. Instead of placing the ones I liked the best I had to work the opposite direction and place the ones that made the least mistakes. The first horse in the advanced division ended up winning the horse championship and was the overall champion as well. So I feel like I made the right choice.
There were 50 in the sheep division.
And 50 in the cattle division.
This took the longest and put us an hour and a half behind schedule.
There were only 13 pigs also. I still don’t understand pig showing.
It just looks like a lot of chaos out there. I saw a few people that I knew and everyone was very appreciative of my support for the event. It seemed like all of the contestants had a good time.
And I came home with a new yeti with a metal straw.
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