I decided to show Reece at the Evergreen state fair in Monroe WA to see what we could do. I hauled her into the fairgrounds the day before we would have any classes and she settled in nicely. She ate hay and was completely calm. I tucked her in at about ten that night and was back at the fairgrounds by 6 the next morning. That day I had two showmanship classes back-to-back and we did great! She was very responsive and we got grand champ w/ blue danishes (colored ribbons that tell how well you did. Blue-great, red-not bad, and white-needs improvement). We had a lot of fun and I found that Reece loves kids. She would drop her head for them and let them rub on her face a lot.
We had no classes the next day but I still brought her out a lot to stretch and roll in the lunging area (which she loved). I also herd a lot of stories from older couples (and a few young ones) about the mustangs they had. Most of them were second hand but a few of them had trained the horses themselves and they were amazed by what we had done in such a short time, it made me very proud of Reece and also thankful that she is such a calm girl.
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