A&E's First Show

As most of you know, Amanda took Edgar to their first show this weekend. The show is a two day EC Bronze show at Amberlea. We took them over on Friday; with Amanda tired from working evenings to pay to keep Edgar in the manner by which he feels he deserves, and me still sick with the stomach flu. Fortunately Rob came home in time to haul for us, and help with the heavy lifting :)

Now most of you know Edgar....or have heard about him. He is a sweet enough horse to ride, but rather...hmm....loud in the barn, and food is high on his list of priorities....so we were a little concerned how he would behave for an entire weekend in a stall at the show. As such, Amanda planned ahead and booked Edgar a stall in the far corner of the show barn. So we thought we have planned ahead to ensure Edgar being at peace in his stall...until I looked at Amanda and asked her "where did you put the hay?" and she answered "outside the barn door so we wouldn't forget it." At there it still sat.

Fortunately we were able to procure some flakes of very nice hay from Amberlea, and Edgar didn't break the stall down in the meantime.

So show day was today.It started with Amanda arriving at the show to hear her tire leaking air...and she watched as it flattened before her eyes. (Rob was kind enough to fix it for her! thanks honey!)

Amanda survived braiding her horse, and tacking him up...barely....but once she got on he was a very good boy. I took some photos of her warming up outside. (in the one photo I caught the front end of a little TB that was an anorexic version of Edgar...and who went right after Amanda).

Edgar was a good boy in the ring. A little looky at the spectators and the white dressage ring, but overall a good start to the show season. By the end of the day Amanda had two green and one yellow ribbon for her three efforts. The classes were crazy big for the walk/trot and training level and went for ever, so I only watched her first two classes, but tomorrow I will watch her training 2 class...and maybe bring them home.