A very traumatic show!

Yesterday Siren partook in her 3rd show, and 4th ever halter class. It was her first show at this particular location. Siren was perfectly calm at the show! I was so impressed! She stood in a stall all day, never calling out or acting nervously. She went into the halter class and walked and trotted off with me and stood very quietly in her line up. At this particular show, there was no 2 and under age division class. That means that we had to compete with the adult horses! She ended up getting 4th out of 8 horses. The judge talked to me and said that she was very impressed with Siren and had to put her in the placings. She said that she could not place her higher because it was hard to compare a young horse who is not leveled out and filled out yet, to a full grown, and filled out adult horse. I am pretty happy with this! Siren is competing pretty well with the big horses!

Well, here is where the "traumatic" part fits in... First off, the night prior to the show, I had to get Siren ready, this included bathing her. Siren had been so good all summer at getting hosed off. For some extremely odd reason, Siren freaked out (There were a few people there and no one can figure out the reason for this) and she ended up breaking a cross-tie and falling down! I was so scared! She was shaking because she was so nervous after what she did. Luckily, she was OK! She only had one tiny cut on her upper leg, about the size of a dime. Unfortunately, the bad luck did not stop there! On the morning of the show, I backed up my truck to the trailer, only to find out that the balls for the hitch were left at home! We had to scramble to retrieve them and barely made it to the show on time. Unfortunately this started the day impacting our moods to that of worried and stressed. Then, somehow, even though the hay bag Siren had in the trailer was up high, she got her front hoof stuck in it! She luckily, once again, came out of this unscathed. Poor baby! She deserves some rest and relaxation after those rough couple of days!