Competition Results

I'll leave it to a friend to describe (she explains much better than I) as she writes a letter to her Dad overseas:

Well Dad, our 3 girls did us proud! Really well behaved and looked good. We did have competition in the filly under 1 class :-( as there was a classy little filly finer than ours but at least 3/4 QH rest unknown ie NO known Australian breeding! Not as well behaved as ours though - lots of white eye and played up in the ring.

Unfortunately she got first.

The judge had problems separating ours but Tobruk (who is out of the insane black Thornthwaite mare) as expected got 2nd then to our surprise Miss Kokoda (out of Miss Muffet half sister to Anzac and full sister to Larrikin) got 3rd. Mind you she was "insulted" by 3rd (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and would not let the steward put the white ribbon on her - reared up high and pulled the lead out of Liz's hands and took off...twice ...didn't go far and easily caught both times though (by strangers!).

The judge was very impressed with the quality of our horses. Tobruk was given reserve champion foal (the filly who beat her got first) as there was no colts to compete for it. We then put Kokoda and Tobruk in progeny pair and they beat an older pair (one white one dark brown who didn't behave) and got first!

Other comments from the judge if I remember right were "I've got horses this age and I don't know if I'll bother showing them with this competition" and "are you going in the futurities with these - you should" He was impressed with the quality and behaviour of our horses (even though Kokoda reared) - by the way she accepted the blue ribbon when Liz put it on carefully - steward didn't try! so see it was cos she was offended at the colour.

Thank God for safety (literally) she's only little but her hooves at head hight are very scary! She's a good little girl though and it was a huge surprise to get two ribbons.