The First Show of the Season

Well, the first show was on Sunday and it went really well! We took the little Dartmoor 3 year old colt, Lad, and he was fabulous.

The ritual began on Saturday afternoon with the hectic bathing session. He is very good when being bathed, although he's not keen on having his ears washed, so both myself and Nic (Lad's mum) got a bit of a wash at the same time! The bathing and preening went on well into the evening, but by the time the hood was on and Lad was all snug in his lovely clean stable rug, we were rather impressed with our efforts.

Sunday morning came very quickly, when more preening commenced. As you can see, Lad's still a little bit woolly, as winter isn't quite over yet! But we don't mind, he still looks fabulous and woolly is par for the course with a native breed.

He's a very handsome little man!

When we had finally finished our brushing and buffing and oiling we were ready for the off. We are lucky to have the local pony club show right near Lad's home, so all we had to do to get there was walk two minutes down the road. It was a chilled out walk, although when he smelled some ladies he got rather sprightly! Bless him, he wants to be friends with everybody at the moment and I think he grew a couple of inches on the walk down to the ring.

Because it's still classed as a winter show, the classes were held in the indoor arena. Lad acted like a real pro, he showed off when he needed to and stood well in the line-up in his M&M Youngstock class. As you can see, the judge loved him.



Well, I can reveal that all the preparation paid off and Lad won his class! So the first show of the season was a resounding success!

The next one is next month, let's see how he does! Then we'll be getting into the summer shows and that's when the real competition starts!

Onwards and Upwards!

Thanks for reading.

Sarah