GypsyMoonMinis
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Where we live there are only 2 mini horse shows in the immediate area, Big Sky State Games and The Montana Fair. Other than that, we have to travel a minimum of 9 hours to the next nearest show, and without a horse trailer that's not possible. My oldest daughter showed Spunky the last two years at the local 4H fair, and my youngest daughter showed her gelding Diego this year as her first "official" year in 4H. Only my youngest daughter wants to continue with the horses, as my oldest daughter is going into high school this year and her interests are elsewhere. So we don't really have any experience showing minis at all. I spent most of my childhood showing quarter horses until I was 19 and in recent years i've been showing Arabians.
Diego got really sick right after the fair, so Summer decided to bring her weanling filly Autumn. I must tell you about this horse. My daughter was given a gorgeous, older mare last year. She's 21 now and we had no idea she was bred until we woke to a surprise in mid October last year! This is the first foal I've had in 15 years so it has been a huge learning experiance, esp since minis are so differant from big horses. Anyways, from day 1, Autumn was attached to my daughter Summer. By 3 days, she leaving momma to follow my daughter around the yard with a frantic mother on her heels. She watches her leave for school in the morning and waits for her in the evenings. She greets her with a loud whinny when she comes in eye sight. They are very close, and I hope that she stays a healthy horse and will grow older with my daughter. When she was born she had knock knees in the front and she walked back on her rear pasterns. Now she's beautifully straight!
Summer is 9, this was her first show ever outside of 4H and has next to no experience at all. Autumn is 10 months and has only been weaned a month, has never been in a horse trailer or away from home and they both seemed to be old hands at the show, competing against older kids and horses. Whats most important, Summer had a wonderful time and can't wait for our next show.
Summer and miss Autumn (Gypsy Moon's Autumn Lily) won second in costume, third in liberty and third in halter. With Spunky (Designers Touch Shez Spunky Too) I won first in halter mares 2 to 3, first in showmanship, second in liberty, third in trail and third in obstacle. With Prize (HHH Surprise Supereyes) I won second in trail, fourth in obstacle and fourth in halter geldings out of 9. I had 3 refusals on jumping with Spunky so I was disqualified, but all the laughing I did made up for it. I was so proud of everyone!!
The only bummer of the whole show, my daughter in her haste to change into her costume forgot her belt and buckle in the bathrooms. We didn't realize it until the next day and it was already gone sadly.
On a side note, I noticed something yesterday. It seemed like I was one of the few people that would praise my horses when we left the ring. Is this something your not supposed to do? We certainly weren't dressed as well as the others, and we didn't have fancy halters, but we had so much fun, we never once thought about anything else.
Our show crew (or part of it). My oldest daughter is holding Prize. She was offically dubbed my show mom. She kept everything organized for me, since i had a few classes i had to quickly change horses and numbers. She baby sat horses, held papers, fixed hair, cleaned horses. What a girl! The boy and his mother in the middle are our travel partners. Nicer people you will never find.
Gypsy Moon's Autumn Lily and Summer in Costume as... gypsy's
My mom did alot of training with Prize before i got him, so it made alot of things easier. If this was a timed course, we would have set a world record. He did everything he was supposed to, just very fast lol. He wanted to get back to his girls.
Spunky's turn. Shes only 2, but this would be her 3rd show. She's an old hat now and was so well behaved during the show. She's my baby girl!
Diego got really sick right after the fair, so Summer decided to bring her weanling filly Autumn. I must tell you about this horse. My daughter was given a gorgeous, older mare last year. She's 21 now and we had no idea she was bred until we woke to a surprise in mid October last year! This is the first foal I've had in 15 years so it has been a huge learning experiance, esp since minis are so differant from big horses. Anyways, from day 1, Autumn was attached to my daughter Summer. By 3 days, she leaving momma to follow my daughter around the yard with a frantic mother on her heels. She watches her leave for school in the morning and waits for her in the evenings. She greets her with a loud whinny when she comes in eye sight. They are very close, and I hope that she stays a healthy horse and will grow older with my daughter. When she was born she had knock knees in the front and she walked back on her rear pasterns. Now she's beautifully straight!
Summer is 9, this was her first show ever outside of 4H and has next to no experience at all. Autumn is 10 months and has only been weaned a month, has never been in a horse trailer or away from home and they both seemed to be old hands at the show, competing against older kids and horses. Whats most important, Summer had a wonderful time and can't wait for our next show.
Summer and miss Autumn (Gypsy Moon's Autumn Lily) won second in costume, third in liberty and third in halter. With Spunky (Designers Touch Shez Spunky Too) I won first in halter mares 2 to 3, first in showmanship, second in liberty, third in trail and third in obstacle. With Prize (HHH Surprise Supereyes) I won second in trail, fourth in obstacle and fourth in halter geldings out of 9. I had 3 refusals on jumping with Spunky so I was disqualified, but all the laughing I did made up for it. I was so proud of everyone!!
The only bummer of the whole show, my daughter in her haste to change into her costume forgot her belt and buckle in the bathrooms. We didn't realize it until the next day and it was already gone sadly.
On a side note, I noticed something yesterday. It seemed like I was one of the few people that would praise my horses when we left the ring. Is this something your not supposed to do? We certainly weren't dressed as well as the others, and we didn't have fancy halters, but we had so much fun, we never once thought about anything else.
Our show crew (or part of it). My oldest daughter is holding Prize. She was offically dubbed my show mom. She kept everything organized for me, since i had a few classes i had to quickly change horses and numbers. She baby sat horses, held papers, fixed hair, cleaned horses. What a girl! The boy and his mother in the middle are our travel partners. Nicer people you will never find.

Gypsy Moon's Autumn Lily and Summer in Costume as... gypsy's


My mom did alot of training with Prize before i got him, so it made alot of things easier. If this was a timed course, we would have set a world record. He did everything he was supposed to, just very fast lol. He wanted to get back to his girls.


Spunky's turn. Shes only 2, but this would be her 3rd show. She's an old hat now and was so well behaved during the show. She's my baby girl!


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