We also had a few riding in the Horse Trials portion of the event. Phillip won the Preliminary on Rocky (his very first prelim!), Ryan got 3rd on his mare Legend, Susanna had a mishap and was unseated xcountry on her mare Nina, and Kevin jumped around clean on his and Gomez’s first Prelim (ending in 15th). All in all pretty successful! We’re still waiting for the show jumping of the CIC tomorrow.

In other barn news, one of Nina’s babies, Diva, left us to go to the racetrack yesterday. In her place, we gained DaVinci! DaVinci is a baby that had its last race this past Wednesday. I think it’ll need a bit of time off! We also gained Chip and Ryan’s recovered Intermediate horse, Wolf. Last night I had to meet the shipping van at midnight to collect Willie, a horse from Minnesota I know nothing about! Also, we’ve been lucky to care for the O’Connor’s horse, Mandiba, for the weekend. Karen had a non-riding mishap and broke her arm, so it has been VERY entertaining watching her give Phillip riding lessons!!

Tomorrow I’m headed to try out some of Jane Sleeper’s young horses for sale. Should be another interesting day!!