The next morning I got up at 6 to start getting ready, I went out and caught Chuck and brought him up and got him all really clean and then got everything else packed up and Roni grabbed Jack so Chuck wouldn't be lonely... we drove and when we got there there were 3 other trailers there, then we unloaded and I went to registure and Roni groomed Chuck again, I came back and tacked him up after I registured my number was 138, I finished and then I took Chuck out to the arena to warm up and get him used to things, at first he was a little nervous, he tried to trot and didn't like to go near a portion of the fence, but he got used to it real quick, I was super proud, there was another girl there who's horse really wanted to go and they kept blowing by us at a quick canter a little closer than I would have liked, but Chuck was pretty cool about it, then more people came and I had w/t/c with chuck both ways so I just walked and let him Chill out, we were asked to exit the arena and we went into the holding area and waited, I was in the first class so I didn't wait long, the first one was Simon says, Chuck did really good! But I messed up, we didn't last long lol I was the first out, the anouncer said stop without saying simon says before and I was so focused on my riding and trying to ride well I didn't think about him having to say simon says and I stopped when he said, and I was out, although I was happy because Chuck stopped instantly and listined very well..... Next up was egg and spoon I did okay, I dropped when I had dropped my reins while backing and went to pick them back up and I knocked the egg off with my reins lol, I was NOT the first out of that though :) then went some of the actual gamming classes first up was the ride tire and lead and I did okay with that, I didn't place but I was happy, its easier to jump out of an english saddle than western so maybe I should work on that more, then next up was poles, and it was the one thing I placed in, but ironicaly the one thing I hadn't had any practice with along with not being able to practice keyhole, but we placed 5th in the junior division which had around 10+ riders so I was really happy with that :) I was especially happy with the fact that we did that good even though half way through I lost BOTH my stirrups lol there were girls who rubber banded their feet to the stirrups because they do the horrid "flying starfish" where they bring their legs way out to kick their horses and can't stay in the seat of the saddle even though they have such a deep seat..... then after that was barrels and then keyhole, barrels went well, we ran a clean pattern and were only 8 seconds slower than the winning time which was 18.6 something, we ran a 26. something time (it says it in the video) and I was happy with that being the first time we have ran outside of our yard and Brushy he really put his heart into it.... Keyhole he was either just being silly or was scared of the white chalk on the ground but he didn't want to go to it at first, but we broke pattern (stepped on the line) but he gave me his heart on the run back, he really tried hard and I think we would have had a pretty good time had we not broke pattern, overall it was an amazing day, we watched the last event (dizzy bat spin) and during the last few riders I went back and took Chucks saddle off, threw his halter and tied a lead rope around and just rode him back up to the arena bareback and when everyone was done I rode him around the arena once more then went back to the trailer and we packed up and left over all it was an AMAZING day and I had tons of fun!!!
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