Hello All,

WOW!  That is the word of the weekend. What a great Saturday of showing BVEC had.  We took 7 riders; Emily and Hope Farrar, Rebecca Southwood, Vasi Wilk, Meredith Dubree, Stephanie Madison and Megan Scott.  We all got up there on Friday night to utilize the schooling session. What a great schooling session it was, I have never seen Megan and Skye jump a whole stadium course that quiet and consistent. Jade was amazing with Vasi jumping all the 2ft jumps in both rings with out any issues. It was Jades first show ever.  Wilbur and Meredith were perfect schooling over the cross rails.  I was wonderfully impressed by both Emily and Rebecca who schooled 3ft and then jumped a 3'3 skinny.  Hope had the most wonderful flat work warm up I have ever seen her and Lira do.  As for Stephanie and Checkmate we had a bit of a dissappointing night.  Checkmate came up lame and unable to compete.  We made the decission that night that Stephanie would school Wilbur in the morning and try the 2ft jumpers.

Our first rider Saturday morning was Stephanie on Wilbur (Willie be a Winner). This was Stephanies 2nd time ever riding Wilbur and Wilburs first time at a horse show with BVEC. The jumped around the 2ft course perfectly, making it the jump off and finishing clean! The second round they made it the jump off again! They got a little excited and had a refusal in the jump off but overall an unbelievable ride.  She ended up 9th out of 16 in both classes!  Next we had the Crossrails Division.  Both Hope and Meredith went this division. They both did great.  Meredith placed 4th and 6th in the over fences classes. Hope got a 4th and a 6th in the over fences and a 3rd in the flat class. This was Merediths first show competing over fences! We then had Megan, Emily and Rebecca in the 2'6 Novice Jumpers.  Megan is working on making Skye listen the entire course with out her rushing to the fences.  She did this successfully and had a great second course placing 6th.  Emily and Rebecca were both amazing, they had clear rounds in both classes and placed 4th, 6th, and 3rd,1st.  They both went in the Gamblers Choice, Emily went first and jumped the Joker clear placing her 2nd, Rebecca had a rail and did get to do the Joker but still placed 4th.  They then went in the 3'-3'3 Childrens/Adult Am class. Emily again jumper around clear, what an amazing job her and Katie did this weekend. They placed 4th.  Rebecca was having an amazing round. She maded it to the jump off, her and her horse had a fall but still placed 6th.  Our last ride of the day was in the Beginner Horse/Pony 2ft Hunters.  Vasi took Jade in both over fences classes and she rode so well.  She placed 5th and 6th.  It is so amazing since she was competing against proffessionals.  Hope joined her for the under saddle class which was packed with people. They were amazing at making good decisions to circle or cross the arena so that they stayed away from other horses.  Hope placed 6th. 

I am so proud of our team. Everyone did so well and did a great job helping each other and me during the show.  Everyone represented BVEC and themselves really nicely.  We had multiple people come up and tell us how good our riders were doing.  I also would like to thank the parents that came, Harriet Wilk, Jerry Dubree, Laura Farrar and the always present Diane Scott.  We couldn't do it without you guys. I hope everyone had fun.