Ft. Worth Stock Show 2018

What a week/weekend! We showed at our first Ft. Worth Stock Show and we hauled Hershey all by ourselves! Shelby's trainer, Alan Shaw, needed to stay home to be w/ his family since the reoccurrence of his youngest sons cancer and he insisted we still go. Shelby was under the guidance of Tim and Karen Wildes all weekend and they treated us like one of their own! It wasn't easy but it was a memorable and great weekend and show. VERY tough competition w/ deep classes! She competed with the best of the best in Texas. It was definitely worth all the hard work, long hours, anxiety over the changes and newness of this adventure and the memories that were made!
Shelby was in 8 classes and placed in all but one class! There were 4 judges and below are the placing she got under each (a gate is no call out. they only called up to 6th place and she got 7th in those that she wasn't called out for)

Walk Trot Trail, 5-10 years old: 4th & 6th place w/ 2 gates
Walk Trot Hunt Seat Equitation, 5-10 yrs old: 2nd, 4th, 2nd and 4th
Walk Trot Hunter Under Saddle, 5-10 yrs old: 3rd, 4th, 2nd, gate
Walk Trot Horsemanship, 5-10 yrs old: 4th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd
Walk Trot Western Pleasure, 5-10 yrs old: 3rd, 5th, 1st, 6th
Youth Halter Mares, all ages: no call out
Walk Trot Showmanship, 5-10 yrs old: 5th, 2-gates, 6th
She won 19 RIBBONS OVERALL!
That is an insane success and HUGE accomplishing weekend, if I must say so! She had a blast reuniting w/ show friends and meeting new ones! We were surrounded by loving, caring, helpful people who love our kids and our family. God has truly blessed us w/ our Horse Family!

Here's some highlights of our weekend in Ft. Worth, Texas...

We made it!!

Hersh is all tucked in and ready for bed. Ready to start the next morning in Trail!

 Day 1 of the FWSSR: Trail

Practice for Trail was from 6am -8:45am and Shelby was in the first class to work at 9am. Needless to say this momma was a little frazzled not having more than an hour and half in the pen to work the pattern but Shelby did fine.

 

In case you can't see him real well, this is not your average "Show Dad." This is the one and only Jay Novacek! His wife and daugther show. His daughter, pictured beside him in my sneaky pic, was showing at the FWSSR too.

 Practice is over, she's dressed and ready and here we go....

Hersh and Shelby placed under 2 judges in Trail winning 4th(white) and 6th (green)! Had a little mishap in our L chute back-up but hey, it's a learning curve and they did great w/ NO pole ticks at all!

 English practice w/ who I like to call, "Magnical Unicorn English Princess," Karen:

Day 3: English and Western classes: 

HS Eq & HUS practice and award time.. she ROCKED her HS Eq and HUS! All that hard work w/ Mr. Alan and Ms. Karen paid off FOR SURE!

Time to practice Western classes!

 Here we go... Horsemanship & Western Pleasure

 Day 3: Youth Halter Mares all ages and Showmanship:

 All Showmanship Pretty...

 Hershey was very happy to be home!!