The highlight of the weekend was the Ramsay's Czechmate winning his division from start to finish and then their son Calvin won his division on Landmark's Miss Liberty, a homebred of Ms Mars.
We headed back north and went to Middleburg HT where I rode Meadowbrook's Scarlett and Meadowbrook's Pollyanna, owned and bred by Marie Le Menestrel, in their very first event. They are two beautiful, talented mares and went on to be 1st and 3rd in their first outing! Very promising for the future.
After that we were off to Morven the following weekend with six. On Saturday I had Ron Reagan and Lucky Devil in the prelim and Czechy in the training. The day was so miserably cold and wet I didn't run cross country but Ron and Taz were 1st and 2nd after the dressage and sj and Czechy just did dressage and was in 1st.
Jax and I attempted to go on Sunday with Scarlett, Polly, and Tux(Landmark's Legendary Affaire), but promptly got stuck in the mud pulling out of the barn at 5:00 am. After spending an hour trying to get ourselves out, we finally realized we needed some large machinery, which meant we needed Dennis, the keeper of all things mechanical on the farm. We all joke that he is really just a big ol' teddy bear, but he mostly scares the crap out of me, but that might be because I'm always breaking things...., so I made Jax go fetch him.
She returns with him, Gary, and a large tractor with chains. There was some grumbling under their breath about "damn women" or something along those lines, but we were promptly unstuck and with some thank you's and batted eye lashes we coaxed a smile out of them. But by then we were way too late to make it to the show.
We used the extra day to pack and left a day early to head to warm and sunny Florida. Max and Karen are toughing it out till after Fairhill.
We left around 2 am, me and Boozer in my truck and trailer, Hannah, Sara, and Jackson in Hannah's rig, and Jax and her giant German Shepherd Libby in Jax's POS Durango. Well don't you know about an hour into the trip we pull up behind Jax on the side of the road with smoke pouring out of her hood. After some convincing, we leave Jax's green machine in a Walmart parking lot, transfer her trash bags full of possessions to whatever space was left in our rigs, load Libby into Hannah's backseat, Jax squeezes into my truck, and off we go.
As I mentioned earlier, Libby is a very large dog, and tends to be a worrier. Well being separated from her momma Jax was causing her some worry and obviously making her stomach hurt, which resulted in her shatting all over Hannah's backseat. Somewhere on the side of I-95 is a massive pile of poop covered towels and candy. Some prisoner is going to think he hit the jackpot and will be sorely mistaken when he grabs that candy bag....
BUT we have made it South safe and sound, the farm and weather is gorgeous, the ponies are happy, and we are off to Rocking Horse in a few weeks with eight, check in here and on Facebook for more updates.
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