Overall Supreme Champion of Show

The Overall Supreme Champion of the SPCA Charity show is *drumroll*

STOP THE PRESS!!!

Owned by I.D

And Reserve Overall Supreme Champion of the SPCA Charity show:

RAINBOW DELYTE!!!

Owned by C.K

CM/AR Photo Show Results

A long time coming, I have FINALLY finished judging!!!!!!!!!!! I have
been hopelessly slack with this show, I'm never usually this bad!! But
next time I will be cracking down on the size of the photo's people are
sending. Next show will be either a February one or in March..I haven't
decided yet, it might be better to have a wee break and get settled
into school again before I do another.
But here are the results anyway!!

1. Mare (38)

1^st Nicoya (I.D)

2^nd Tahoe Lake (I.D)

3^rd Roses In The Moonlyte

4^th Abigail S (I.D)

2. Gelding (15)

1^st Thomas More (I.D)

2^nd Walshingham (I.D)

3^rd Arkle (I.D)

4^th Done Deal (I.D)

3. Stallion (35)

1^st Stop The Press (I.D)

2^nd Jet Master (I.D)

3^rd The Grey Ghost (I.D)

4^th Coaltown (I.D)

4. Foal (4)

1^st Ikram (I.D)

2^nd Junior (I.D)

3^rd dp. Spy Me Not

4^th Skippy (I.D)

CHAMPION GENDER: Thomas More (I.D)

RESERVE CHAMPION GENDER: Stop The Press (I.D)

5. Solid Colour (Bay, black, grey, chestnut etc) (26)

1^st Abigail S (I.D)

2^nd DP Brisingr

3^rd Silver Star (I.D)

4^th Kings Theatre (I.D)

6. Dilute Colour (silvers, Palomino, buckskin, dun etc) (13)

1^st Coaltown (I.D)

2^nd Shining Allspark (I.D)

3^rd Dream Weaver (I.D)

4^th dp. Streetwise

7. Paint/Pinto (Sabino included) (45)

1^st Jet Master (I.D)

2^nd Gold Rush

3^rd Thomas More (I.D)

4^th DP Synchrony

8. Appaloosa (any pattern) (5)

1^st Stop The Press (I.D)

2^nd CKK Mini Measles

3^rd CKK Miakoda

4^th dp. Deal Me In

9. Any other colour (2)

1^st CKK Wynter Myracle

2^nd CKK Regal Fascinations

CHAMPION COLOUR: Jet Master (I.D)

RESERVE CHAMPION COLOUR: Stop The Press (I.D)

10. English Trail (1)

1^st dp. Streetwise

11. Dressage (0)
12. Jumping (0)
13. Western Trail (1)

1^st dp. Deal Me In

14. Western Pleasure (2)

1^st dp. Deal Me In

2^nd dp. Khalisah

15. Showmanship (Handler MUST be visible. English and Western) (2)

1^st dp. Astral Fairy Wings

2^nd dp. Deal Me In

16. Games (0)
17. Harness (0)
18. Other Performance (1)

1^st dp. Astral Fairy Wings

CHAMPION PERFORMANCE: dp. Astral Fairy Wings (other performance)

RESERVE CHAMPION PERFORMANCE: dp. Streetwise

19. Scene (0)
20. Prettiest Mare (28)

1^st First Defence (I.D)

2^nd dp. Khalisah

3^rd Shining Allspark (I.D)

4^th DP Synchrony

21. Handsomest Stallion (29)

1^st Iskander (I.D)

2^nd Kings Theatre (I.D)

3^rd CKK Miakoda

4^th dp. Streetwise

22. Cutest Foal (4)

1^st Ikram (I.D)

2^nd Junior (I.D)

3^rd Skippy (I.D)

4^th dp. Spy Me Not

23. Owners favourite horse (1 entry per person) (1)

1^st Rhaptured In Roses

24. Most unrealistic photo/Photo Fail (0)
25. Most realistic photo (21)

1^st DP Aces Full

2^nd DP Synchrony

3^rd Lo Deseo

4^th CKK Khougerhand

26. Most unusual place to find a model horse (0)
27. Mare and Foal (0)
28. Family Portrait (0)
29. Best Animal (no horses) (2)

1^st CKK Cheshire Illusion

2^nd Besos De Calabaza

30. Photoshopped picture (anything goes) (1)

1^st Besos De Calabaza

31. Best Paintjob (35)

1^st Stop The Press (I.D)

2^nd Jet Master (I.D)

3^rd DP Synchrony

4^th First Defence (I.D)

32. Creative Angle (4)

1^st dp. Lady Juliana

2^nd dp. Streetwise

3^rd CKK Mahogany Breeze

4^th Carambano

33. Most Creative Photo (can be anything, get thinking!! J) (0)
34. Best AR (37)

1^st Jet Master (I.D)

2^nd Thomas More (I.D)

3^rd dp. Spy Me Not

4^th Abigail S (I.D)

35. Best CM (26)

1^st CKK Mini Measles

2^nd Tarr Steps

3^rd dp. Lady Juliana

4^th Arkle (I.D)

36. Headstudy (4)

1^st DP Synchrony

2^nd dp. Khalisah

3^rd DP Brisingr

4^th dp. Streetwise

37. Liberty (26)

1^st Patriot Game (I.D)

2^nd dp. Spy Me Not

3^rd CKK Enojado Fachenda

4^th DP Synchrony

CHAMPION OTHER: Stop The Press (I.D)

RESERVE CHAMPION OTHER: DP Synchrony

OVERALL CHAMPION CM/AR OF SHOW: Stop The Press (I.D)

OVERALL RESERVE CHAMPION CM/AR OF SHOW: Jet Master (I.D)

*None of these images are my own, they are all copyright the photographer.

Saddlefree Performance

First off, Jen Buxton comes up with THE best things to post about!!! One of the latest being Saddlefree Performance, but the one I was really fascinated by was her post about an event called Bareback Puissance. That event seems really 'me'. I don't think I would ever be able to jump that sort of height though!

She really looks like she is having fun!!

Through searching 'Bareback Puissance' and
'Bareback Puissance jumping' on Google Images, it seems there aren't
many *decent* pictures of the event, thus the similarity in images to
Jen's post.
This seems the perfect event for me if I was live showing!! Since I
only own a western saddle, I would have to make my english saddle if I
were showing performance, but an english bridle is easy enough to make,
or, if you can't make one, they are relatively cheap.
This would be such an awesome thing to have setup at live shows!!! I
would love to see some in pictures from lives!
*All images from Google Images, and the post topic courtesy of Jen
Buxton. This is mainly for my reference, but if anyone gets anything
out of it, good on ya!!!

New Years Resolutions

Last night I decided to do something I haven't done for ages, write a new years resolution list!! There is a couple
things I have thought of since, but I think this will do for now. Some things I can't do until the end of the year/will
take the whole year to achieve, such as the secret santa one, and achieving NCEA Level 2. At least one I don't
even know if it will happen unfortunately. We can always hope!!

That's supposed to say 13.2 at the bottom!! not B.2!

Lets hope a few of these get done!!!

Dreamflite Design Saddle Tutorial

I have been eagerly awaiting Anna Kirby's (Dreamflite Design) english saddle tutorial. So much that I ended up
making a saddle before it had come out, I finished that one the day I got it (before reading it of course!!)

That one looks better with a rider in it, even if it is a western rider!

Then I printed out Anna's tutorial and folled the instructions to make another saddle...it taught me a few things
making that second saddle, like, Anna obviously has much much thinner leather than I have!!!

I swear the stirrups on both saddles are not that short either!! I made
them both adjustable, but have already broken the strap on the second
saddle, so that I think I will pull apart enough to fix the stirrup
leather...I did want to make them the right length for my wee rider,
but I'm stuffed if I can find her!!!! Next saddle you see will be a
larger one, a plan I have to test out Anna's tutorial even more!! I
just can't help experimenting!

Breyer Trakehner: Tail Review

I know Breyer have put out a Hickstead on the Trakehner mold, what I didn't realise was the mold has a new tail
for the release. I only found this out last night while reading the Breyer History Diva blog post Letting Sleeping Models Lie. So of course I had to find out what this new tail was that seemed so unliked.

The original:

From identifyyourbreyer.com

And this is the only pic I could find of his new tail:

Found in google images on page 1

To me it really looks
like they have taken the tail off of Idocus and reattached it to the
Trakehner...ok, with some small modifications!
I really don't know what to think about either of the molds now...I
have never really like either of them in the first place, but that tail
to me just looks out of place on the Trakehner...but of course there
will be people out there that love the change. Hickstead is not on my
2012 wish list, actually, none of them are really, though I am still
thinking about Padre and possibly the roan Bouncer, though I prefer the
original Bouncer even though that mold is really not very
'correct'....Breyer, what has happened to you?!!

The horses in Murchison

I did type out a whole heap last night, and saved it ready to post
today, but it seems to have stuffed it all up so out it goes!! Was just
a whole heap of garbage you wouldn't have wanted to take the time to
read anyway!! But here, finally, is the promised pics of the horses in
Murchison, Splash, the Harness pony, Woody, the new colt, Pony, the
$100 pony, and Dusky, Twilight's foal! Can't write much more, have to
go to bed *groan* ahh well, don't have to go into town tomorrow, and I
have another post lined up for then too!

Pony and Woody

Dusky

Splash

I'm not the only one that sees Roundapony in this pic am I??!!