Ribbons & 2010 show season planning

So I loved christmas since my Year End award ribbons finally showed up and my Reserve Champion Sash from state!! I will add pictures at the end of this post. Cherokee is progressing very well and we've got some basic showmanship down. I haven't gotten to work with her all that much since it's been so rainy and boggy which bums me out but that's rainy season. I have also been speaking with one of my horsey friends and I am thinking of joining PtHA. I had the idea last year to join this year BUT now I am not sure since I am planning on showing at Gold N Grand. So if I do join PtHA I will probably end up having to drop a couple of my Hunter shows. However! I do have a job interview tomorrow so if I get this new job I might have a little extra cash around to attened some more shows. I want to get an idea of where PtHA congress & world is held and how much everything is going to cost and if I have a real shot of doing well in this association. D is not the best mover but we could kill in showmanship, Eq, and Hunter Hack along with other fence classes but I want to make sure that if I put the money out it will be worth it. I will have to be real nit picky about the shows I attened so that is where I am at show wise at this point in time. Ok Ribbon Picture time! (the first two ribbons on the right are the new ribbons, the very first one is for CSHA region 2 Year End Rider. Then to the left of that is the 2009 CSHA Region 2 Year End English Allround rider) The Sash is for CSHA 2009 Show Of Champions Open W/T reserve Championship title.

Showmanship with Cherokee

So today we started with some lunging since it seems that Cherokee works a lot better once we worked a little of that extra energy out of her system. We had a lot of construction going on near our house (PG&E cutting back some branches) so we had a couple of issues with standing still BUT that's understandable with falling branches. We worked on walking and stopping without me having to pull her to a stop. She's doing very well but sometimes I bump into her shoulder when we stop (which is an issue I had with D so I am wondering if maybe I am at fault there). She's getting really good at halting right when I do. We also worked on setting up and she did pretty well with letting me pick up and move her feet around. After that I worked on getting her to drop her head so that I don't have a giraff in the ring lol. Overall a very good day for all the scary things that were going on.