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Usually by this time Skip would have been to several shows, but we’ve been getting tons of rain in VA which has caused a lot of cancellations.

He and Delaney got 4th in 12 and under Equitation. They did fantastic in trail and got a 1st in 12 and under Trail in hand and a 1st in 12 and under Trail. Skip loves Trail!!!!!!

Delaney has learned that Britches loves to jump. She’s been training him at least once a week and I think he loves her as much as Skip does. Whenever she calls him to come out of the pasture, he trots up as fast as he possibly can. He’s just so darn cute!!!!

On May 9th, Skip turned the great age of 8 years old. He got a birthday hat made by Delaney and a box of homemade treats. He thought they were yummy!

On March 20th and 21st, Delaney attended the Virginia State 4H Hippology and Horse Judging Competition in Lexington Virginia.  She was  was awarded the 2009 Virginia State Junior 4-H High Point Hippology Champion along with also being awarded the 2009 State Junior Novice Horse Judging Champion.

From State Hippology

Delaney went to the Northern District 4H Hippology Contest on Saturday with her 4H club  and scored Big!  She got a 2nd place on the written test, a 3rd place on the stations and a 3rd place for High Point individual which included horse judging.  She and her Junior team got a 2nd place on the written, 6th place in stations and a 2nd place in High Point team.    There were 18 Junior teams with 3 to 4 kids on each team, so there were a lot of kids.

This is Britches who is a miniature horse and is Delaney’s new training project. She is beginning to do ground work with him and training him to be a nice mannered child’s pony. He can jump barrels, drive a cart plus Delaney wants to teach him all the tricks for doing in hand trail obstacles too. Skippy caught Delaney working with Britches today and was nickering at her, “Like what are you doing with him?” It was cute, but don’t worry because Skip got his time with her too.

It’s been an interesting start to 2009. We met the vet out at the farm on the first Sunday night of 2009 for an emergency farm call. Skip had a 103+ fever – not good. The blood test returned Lyme’s as the problem. Luckily, we caught it on the first day Skip was symptomatic. Also, the vet didn’t wait around for 2 days on the blood test results to take action. He started Skip on antibiotics immediately. And when I say we I mean the wonderful folks at Majestic Meadow where Skip lives. They noticed that something was wrong at feeding time and called us immediately.

So now 22 days later and Skip has just come off antibiotics. He seems to be pretty much back to normal so I’m hopeful that we dodged this bullet.

She had been eying this grooming set for a while. She won it, so I don’t have to buy it for her!

Next year, use reindeer, not horses. They are less likely to spook at bright lights.

Equine fashion takes a giant step back to the 80s. Can giant poofy manes be far behind?