On Saturday after food judging, Margaret and Clara went with Sheree, Alissa, Brenna and Quinn to decorate the Neigh Burrs’ horse stalls. Michelle was there, too. She and Clara crawled up and down to hang the buntings (provided by Tracy, I think).

Groovy, eh?

Alissa supplied the stall cards.

Should we put it here?

Yes!

How about here?


Very nice.



(Oops, in that last photo, the wind has blown all of the buntings over the tops of the stalls.)
Sheree treated to snow cones after all of the hard work.


Then, thanks to Clara and the Slagles, Margaret and Reginald were bright-eyed and bushy-tailed early Monday morning, ready to go.

First, came Pre-Junior Showmanship.

We were so excited when the judged placed her in the blue ribbon row!
Then, came Reginald’s halter class. I counted 25 geldings in his age class. Oh, my. So, he ended up in the red ribbon row. At least he didn’t end up in the white row.
After halter class, Margaret got ready for Walk-Trot Western Pleasure and Walk-Trot Horsemanship.

She did a great, great, great job concentrating and really paying attention in both of those classes. And, thank the Lord, there were no wrecks, either.

We were very excited, again, when she placed 5th in Western Pleasure and 4th in Horsemanship with blues in both.

Margaret was so tired after all of this excitement that we decided she would not show in Open Class on Tuesday (MUCH to her dismay), so her next events were Wednesday when she ran barrels and poles.
She and Reginald warmed up.






Then came some sustenance,


and she headed in for the real thing,



while Amelia and Alissa watched,

and Clara said, “Margaret, Margaret, Margaret, I told you not to try to lope him around the barrels.”

Yes, Margaret’s love of speed got the better of her in barrels and she tried to get Reginald to go faster than they had practiced so he broke pattern. Alas.
BUT, she listened to Clara before she went in for poles and took it slower,



until she loped home. Which was fine.

Whew. That’s all over. In her relief, Clara decided to take Reginald for a spin and Alissa joined her on Peanut.

Well, maybe “spin” is an exaggeration. In any case, hurrah for older sisters who help with horse projects.
And hurrah for Mr. Tim and all of his help.

And hurrah for Margaret and her horsey 4-H project.