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| Cathy Henderson and Ginger (She Is a Star - for sale) cross country PHOTO CREDIT: Bonnie Kibbie |
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| Claire Kezner with a small portion of her fan club PHOTO CREDIT: Jeanne Anne Wallace |
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| Pinking out cross country PHOTO from my cell phone |
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| Sporthorse Saddlery helping you with the pink PHOTO from my cell phone |
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| The Volunteers get into the spirit and spend 10 hours on the cross country course PHOTO from my cell phone
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| Rusty inspects the new water PHOTO CREDIT: Bonnie Kibbie |
I always love heading out to an event for the weekend and Michigan has the added bonus of my wonderful Cobblestone gang. I feel like I didn't have nearly enough time to spend with everyone as we all stayed busy with 14 divisions of BN-P horses. Jenn Merrick-Brooks did her usual wonderful job organizing. Cricket Killen remains the volunteer coordinator extraordinaire. Jeff Kibbie's cross country course just keeps getting better and as a bonus, Bonnie made the looooong drive up from Tennessee so I got to see her and meet Rusty, seen here checking out the new water jump at Cobblestone.
I was cross country control on Saturday, which went very well. The fence judges did a great job and while the cross country course had an influence, I think most horses and riders had a very positive experience and no ambulances rolled. It also got a little bit cooler, which was a big help. Sunday, I scribed for SJ for endless hours from the first preliminary horse shortly after 8 am to the last BN horse shortly after 5:30. The Stadium course was tough and there were very few clean rounds at the higher levels. Always tough to jump on grass with terrain issues added.
In addition to the eventing friends, I spent the weekend with the Fendricks and it was great to have some time with Mark and Jen, hear Daniel practice bassoon and hear about Claire's volleyball schedule. Wishing her the best of luck at tryouts coming up.
Meanwhile, local riders were in the tack at Olney, Cococino and Fitch's. Boyd and Ryan won the OP divisions, Caitlin had an impressive training win on the Juvonen's HH Lancaster and many other Area II riders made the trek north to what is an increasingly fabulous venue there. I'm looking forward to heading over to Windurra for another round of showjumping tomorrow.
