Lewisburg & Pulaski July 24-25 2009

Sorry to say I don't have any shots from this weekend. Without going into alot of detail, suffice to say these were probably the two best horse shows of the season so far. Entries were up, the crowds were big and the weather was great.
Since I didn't have any pictures from the shows, I decided to include this picture of "The Bronze Avenger". He is a (real) yard ornament from Mom and Dad's home in Tallahassee, Florida, that wears the roses (poinsettas)every year at Christmas time!
Next week: Belfast and Wartrace "the cradle of the Tennessee Walking Horse" and Strolling Jim's hometown and final resting place. See you there!

PC Splash and Lynchburg Horse Shows July 17-18 2009

The weather turned cool this Friday night in Columbia at the Maury County Park track. Overall the PC Splash was a great show despite the adversity of the USDA being unreasonable. Later in the week I will add a link to the re-broadcast of the show by Dean Johnson Video - the Brogdon Family helped sponser the broadcast and he did some neat commercials for us.
The highlight of the PC Splash was Chrome Dollar who won the 2 year old stallion class outstandingly with Charlie and looked the best he has all year! Woo-Hoo he is Celebration Bound! Joyce Meyers made a great show on Row Ya Boat for Joyce Meadows in the 4 year old stallion class and tied 2nd. Yours truly won the first blue of the season in the 4 year old Mare and Gelding Class on Pushin' Dollars & Sense. Charlie got a blue on a new 2 year old filly named Night Shades Sonyador - owned by the Leonards from Arkansas. She was great.

The big highlight for Charlie Green Stables at the Lynchburg show was Kounti Green's debut in the lead line class on her new pony Casper. Candy,Kounti and Casper tied 2nd in the class and were a crowd favorite.
Alot of classes turned out to be exhibition style including Ben on White Out by Jazzin the 2 yr old amateur mares & geldings class,Lynda on Ozone's Full Throttle in the amateur 4 yr old stallions class, Sister on C Me Push, Charlie on Flamingo Dancer in the 3 year old mare & gelding class, and Masked Threat in the 15.2 class (Threat later went back to win reserve in the stake!). Joyce Meyers showed Jose's Whole Shabang in a good Amateur Mares and Geldings class and (IMHO won) tied 2nd.
(FYI after the show I asked Billy Thomas why they picked this judge for their show and he advised me that his brother Charles is good friends with Lonnie and that people had been giving him (Billy)a hard time all night about this.)

Check out the pictures from Lynchburg below. Don't forget to click on the "slideshow" button at top left to see the pictures full size.

Lynchburg Horse Show July 18 2009

Well this reporter is signing off for now - NEXT WEEK - Lewisburg and Pulaski. Can't wait to see what Jim and Debbie Flack and the gang have to eat in Pulaski! I just hope the bar-b-que bologna is on the menu again. Hey Debra we better bring somethin this year so they won't black ball us.....

Long Awaited Posting

Hi Everybody and welcome back to the Horses and People Blog. I have to apologize for the tardiness of the first post of the 2009 horse show season, but we have been busy showing horses!
So far the year has gone very well considering, and we are all fortunate enough to be able to continue to SHOW our wonderful Tennessee Walking Horses with love and respect as well as enjoy the camaraderie with all of our friends in this business. I have uploaded several albums which are roughly sorted by date/horse show below. Most of these are small albums consisting of just a few pictures but I separated them for chronological organization. Click on the picture to see the whole album and then select "slide show" (at top left in new window)to see large images in a full slide show. Hope you enjoy them.

Panama City Beach, FL April 22-25 2009

Lexington, AL June 13, 2009

Arab, Alabama June 20, 2009

4th of July weekend 2009

The following is a short video I took at Clearview Farms Saturday July 11th. This is a 3 year old Fresian stallion named Vader. The video does not do him justice.

Mule Show 2009

CB's Barn and Mule Trail Ride Weekend