Horse show! Horse show!

Well, I am glad to say...I finally bit the bullet and went to a horse show. I spent the whole week sitting in my office with Erin talking about how "I dont want to show..." and then the next day it would be "No, I am going to do it!" I am sure she was getting frustrated with how flip-floppy I was, but she sat me down and told me it was time for me to stop living in fear and that I really was ready for this and all of the fear was so beatable. I had a short lesson on Friday morning before the show. Joe was literally PERFECT. He didn't stop at anything and was doing anything ridiculous I asked him for, except flying changes!! So I said we could bring him on the trailer and if he hacked well then I would suck it up and show.

And guess what? He was beyond PERFECT hacking. He cared more what was on the outside of the ring than what was on the inside of it! Trotting past standards he didn't even LOOK! So I showed. What a GREAT choice I made!! Josephine was legitimately the best behaved I think he has EVER been at a show. He stopped once in the show ring despite all my nerves. Only stopping once is quite a big deal for his little pony self!! We won all of our classes except the one where he stopped!! As if that was not enough, we received our first champion ribbon together. Never once before this have we received a tri-color ribbon with all primary colors in it before. Sure, we have had many reserve champions before but this was our first champion. It was a huge division and a very competitive one at that; I cannot believe I did as well as I did!! I'll add some pictures below here so everyone can join me in fawning over Joseph :)

I LOVE THIS PONY!!