C.C.R.H.A. Brandond Sept 24 - 26 2010

September 23
We left Home at 5:35pm. dad drove at first and i wanted to see but not even half way me got stuck driving and drove the remainder 2 hours.We arrived in Brandon a little after 9pm any ferrther i would have been able to stay awake. We still had to unload and I wanted to ride before we when to bed. There was only another 10 horses in the arena and Pretty didn't seem to mind she just wanted to look all over and see all the horses.

We worked our scales, spins and stops and she felt really good just she really didn't want to slow down that much. We road till 11 i gave her a bath then put her away for the night and when and crashed my self in my nice big bed.

September 24
Finlay got to sleep in this morning till 9am. when to go feed but dad already beet me to it. the show didn't start till 5pm this evening so we had time go go look around grab lurch and go ride before our class started. Nat and Chris showed up after lurch. ( Chris my boyfriend) Pretty was good in warm up and she just wanted to go slow today.

Our first class was Green Horse/ Rider.  There was about 25 other riders in the class so this was going to be a tough one to win. we watch a lot of good runs and was starting to think me and pretty didn't stand a good chance of placing in this class, every one was looking very good but a couple people got 0.

Me and Pretty  when in to the class kind of slow. i pushed her a little to much for the big searcals, she don't look very pretty going to fast so going  the other way i didn't push her as much and she put her head down more. Her spins her dead on fast and pretty. the stops she kind of wanted to charge and she had a problem digging in because the ground was so deep but still did some pretty stops.
           Green Rider we got 2nd with score of 63.5 and Green Horse we got 4th.
So I was very happy with her and our run, she got her treats and a bath.

We went out fore supper watch was really bad so after we when to the bar in the hotel for some frieze and chicken, every one was having some drinks. (I'm not much of a drinker) around 10:30pm after all the class finished i when to ride pretty in the show ring and Nat and Chris came and watch but there was no coffee in there coffee mugs lol . lol. lol.  I made a mistake but practising some spinning with Pretty and i lost me balances and ended put hanging on to Pretty neck when she finally came to a stop. I had to stay here till the room stopped spinning and when i looked up i could see Chris and Nat laughing like crazy at me, both of the really red in the face. Pretty was a good girl and didn't move but just waited for me to sit up right before she moved. the rest of the evening was good we worked some more stops but not more spinning for now. We finely got to bed little after 12.

September 25
Really early start.  My class was at 7am so I was up at 6am so I could feed and warm up Pretty how didn't really want to do anything this morning. just like my 2 helpers how said they would get up and come watch me but both were till snoring when i left the room.The class was Ranch Reining and there was only 3 of us in the class witch kind of sucked cause it was just me, dad and another young kid. The pattern was a good one and so was our run but Pretty really didn't was to put much speed behind anything so i didn't push her at all, and she did a really nice pretty run with her head down the hole time.
Ranch Reining  we got 2nd 65.5
Dad got 3rd
The boy how beet me only did buy 1 point.

My next class is after lunch around 5pm so I went back to bed for a little bit. We went out for lunch when came back and road goring lurch brake and pretty was really fighting me, not wanting to slow down at all and I had to fix her a couple of time to get here to go slow again.

The last class but also the Hades one of the weekend. There was also 40 people in this class and most are big showers with expansive horses. Watching the other compatters kind of made me nerves cour of how good of runs there were doing and how high of scores they where all getting. Me and Pretty where way down the list so i got to watch most of the people run, witch i like to do just to see what they do and how they ride cause that kind of how i learn.

Me and Pretty when in to our class kind of novice and trying to keep my self and her focused on what we had to and and trying not to forget the patten. We had a nice put her cereals were prefect and her spins were really nice and fast, even batter the lead changes here bang on i barley got to ask her to change and she did it so smooth I and to check to make sure she changed. The stops where nice but for some reason she though we where fencing today and i had to hard turn to we would not hit the fence. but other then that we had i nice run and we walked out of there laughing because of how close we got to that fence.
Rookie  0
We didn't place in the top 3 but Jen wrote all the scores down and she thinks i would have placed 8th or something like that but that's still good compared to how many people were in that class.

Shows 2010

May 29 - 30 C.W.H.A. Pine Ridge

It's the first show of the year and there is big competition this year. It rained both days and really hard, we lost power for a bit on Sunday.
Pretty tried really hard and looked very good we god a lot of good feed back. But i think she felt small next to some of the other horses. Saturday we didn't place in any of our class but on Sunday we got 6Th in Trail. I was very happy with her cause most of the time she don't do that good in trail class. we didn't place in Reining but our score was 67 1/2 so i was still pretty happy with her, she tried.

No Mars this show he was still sore and not ready.

July 10 - 11 C.W.H.A. Pine Ridge

We had a good day of showing and everything was going great until a horse in please class kicked out at Pretty and hit her in the chest. After that she refused to go slow at all, I Guss she was mad and there went my class. My Trail was even worse I think she was trying to count how many logs there were and how dead slow of a lop she could do but i wouldn't call that loping more like 4 beating. My Western horsemanship went much batter but there was like 25 of us in the class so we didn't place.

We had C.C.R.H.A. Reining that evening and we did very good. Got 1st place in Green Horse with a score of 68. and we didn't place in out other class but scored 67 1/2. we won a blanket for 1st place.

Sunday was OK the only class we placed in was well nothing. we tried but we either wort going slow enough or her head was not down enough or something like that. when reining came around it was Stakes Reining so i was really hopping to do good. We got a score of 70 watch is the best score we have ever had. ~!!!!wow!!!!~ but today it was not good enough to place in the money, oh well i was still very happy, extra apples for her.

No Mars Again, but there was a trail pattern he would have loved to do and would have gone a really good job.

July 22-25 Morris Stampede

The fun show was held on Sunday July 25. This would be Pretty first fun show so i was really looking forwards to it. She did not to bad for her first time. I also Brought Mars and Hunter for the fun show. Hunter usually does not place, he's not fast enough but i just bring him for the fun. Mars was doing really well but he went sore so we stooped.
Pretty - Mars - Hunter
2nd - 1st - 0 Big T
2nd - 0 - 0 Barrels
1st - Scratch - 0 Poles
0 - Scratch - 5 Keyhole.
We have the brakes to stop but we also have sliders on and we were going pretty fast and we fit the brakes a good 3 feet before the keyhole and still we slide right throw it. !!Good job!!

When there was free time in the ring and there were still a lot of people waiting for the next class to start i took Mars in and road him around with my wip and snaping it and getting Mars to stop on a dim with out toucking the rain. backing up on his own. and i was doing my trick with him like. standing on his back and jumping off, Going all the way on one side of the sadddle so a could almost touck the ground, craling under him. walking all the way around him snapping my wip and he never moved. i put my hat on his head and he made it fall of and then picked it up for me. some one brought me a laso so i was ropping off Mars and i was ropping Mars. I was trying to get Mars to lung around me but he just stopping and stared at me refusing to go so we didn't do anymore of that. I put on my little trick show on friday, saturday and sunday nad everyone in the crowed liked watching.


August 7 Turn N Burn For the Cure

Now this is fun, all it is, is barrels racing for Cancer. You just have to Furies money to run and you get only one run per horse but it's all for a good cause. I raced Mars, Pretty and Hunter. I raised $ 278.00, I want to get way more for next year.

Pretty did very good, we tuck our turns pretty wide and she was not sure of what she was supposed to do but still tried. When I walked in with Hunter, every one how had a camera was now pointing it at me and Hunter. he didn't seem to have a lot of speed today but with his big strides it don't take him longer to get around the barrels. the only problem is that he don't have enough room to maneuver around the barrels.

Pretty 20.367
Hunter 31.763
Mars 18.900 3rd in 4D


August 14 - 15 C.C.R.H.A. Rudko

This was are first C.C.R.H.A. Show of the year, we missed all the ones before it. The show was out side and it lightly raining all day on and off but it was OK. Saturday was good, our first class didn't go as i wanted it. Pretty didn't really want to go slow and she charged on our stops but still managed to make it look good. On Sunday Pretty seemed sore in the morning but did a really good first run but after that she quit so i scratched from my other class. She had twisted her right front ankle.
Saturday Sunday
Ranch Reining 64 1/2 2nd 66 1/2 1st
Green H / R 66 1st Scratch

August 22 Grunthal Fun Show

I just brought Mars and Hunter today. I took Mars in to the warm up arena and everything was going good his head was down and jogging slow. As soon as i asked him to lope, he reared straight up (I thought we were going backwards), he goes down, bucks, bunny hops and rears back up and i did a somersault off the front, landing on my tail bone and i look up and Mars is standing 2 feet away from me just looking at me as if to say "What you doing down there"
The rest of the day went good he didn't fight me at all. Me and Hunter had a lot of people cheering us on even thou we weren't the fasts and we didn't win anything there was still a lot of people happy to see use there.
When me and Mars did Poles i think i hit every pole with my knees cause he was cutting it so close and tight, just sit back and hold on. Hunter on the other hand took his time and had nice long strides so there was no cutting things close. Flags was fun, Me and Hunter had to come to a stop so i could learn far over to grab the flag cause he don't like getting close to the barrel and on the way home, well he just wanted to go home. Mars had a different ideas when it comes to doing flags. run full bore past the first flag, just barrel grabbed it and at the 2nd barrel slam on the brakes just long enough for me to switch flags and......... In stead of going around the barrel mars trays to do a roll back over the barrel. ah that was not what i had in mind.

Mars Hunter
1st 0 Pols
4th 0 Barrels
0 0 Flags


August 28 C.W.H.A. Pine Ridge

It rained on and off all day and me and Pretty just didn't feel like being here. We really massed up are Trail class top begin the day, then Pleasure was OK but we didn't go slow enough, Still working on that. Western Horsemanship when about the same way. Then Reining finally came but there was one small problem, the Judge we had was an English Hunter/ Jumper Judge how didn't know a thing about reining. Not a thing. I mean it was nice for everyone to get really height scores and some people deserved them and others did not bit I'm don't think this judge knows the difference.

Reining Tied for 3rd 72 1/2
My run went very good but I know we can do batter but i also know that my score shouldn't have been that high. For 1 she steeped out of her spins to the right, 2 her head went up on the stops, 3 she didn't go as slow as i wanted her to and 4 she charged on one of her stops.

September 18 - 19 C.W.H.A. Pine Ridge Finales

Saturday when OK i didn't show in anything but reining so i was just watching everyone else today. Me and Pretty wormed up at lunch brake and was lopping really slow and we did a few flying lea changes watch she did perfectly. I was not pushing her today i was just doing reining nice, slow and pretty which when really good.

Our reining pattern was perfect. nice circles, she slowed down so nicely she almost stopped and our lead changes we bang on, I barely got to ask her to change and she just changer so smoothly i could barely tell. on our run downs she picked up to much speed at the take off so i just sat back and asked her to slow down and she hit the brakes. the stops where not what i wanted she knew before i asked her to stop but she still slid pretty good. when we got to the spine we ran into a problem. I did 4 to the right and the someone whistled out for me to stop ( watch i hate when they do that) and i yelled at them to SHUT UP and the i spun to the left only 3 times.

We got a 0 but our score would have been a 69 1/2. We needed to score today to run in the Finals so i did not get to run for the saddle but i also didn't have an extra $ 140 anyways. I was mad but not at pretty she did the best job she could, i just sometime have a problem counting.

I am looking forwards to Brandon next week and can't wait and hopping for the best.

No saddle this year but always next year. I will be back with Pretty and Mars



September 24-26 C.C.R.H.A. Brandon


Brandon was loads of fun, there were a lot of horses there from all over. The Sates, Alberta, BC. lot of big time showers and very nice large trailers. I could live out of some of those trailers.

It was a long weekend and Pretty didn't seem to have much up and go but we still did very good. all the class were big with lots of riders in one class, me and Pretty looked kind of small next to these big show horse. The ground in the show ring was not the best for stopping so pretty didn't really want to try all that much but we still did good. Every time we go there no one really seems to talk to us, i dont' know why but we just get looked at as though they don't want us there.

Our first class was on Friday evening Green Horse / Rider so we only ran the pattern once. There was i think about 25 people in that class with me and dad. We did our run as best we could, her circles were good but she put her head up when i asked her for more speed. ( she don't look pretty when we go to fast) her spins where very nice and very fast. It's hard to count and stay on at the same time going that fast. the stops where not the best but the ground was very deep.

Saturday earl morning we had our Ranch R class at 7am. Pretty was still very much asleep so we kind of had a slow run and everything felt really good. the guy who beat me only did by 1 point. grrrrrrr. Dad and Sue got 3rd.

After lunch around 5pm was Rookie. There was at least 30 or more people in this class. We had a good run her lead changes where so good and right on I had to check if she changed at all. For some odd reason she thought we where fencing today and after our second stop she ran straight at the fence and i had to pull her hard left so she wouldn't stop. lol. we had a very nice run but it was not good enough, there were a lot of horses in that class how are worth a great deal more money so we didn't place. We tried and we walked out of there with our head held high and kind of laughing.

Ranch R 2nd 65.5
Green Horse/Rider 4th 63.5
Rookie 65.5

We had a long and tough weekend and we will be back next year to try again.

Samantha Wiebe and Pretty Little Maxmuis is the 2010 CCRHA
Green Reiner Reserve Champion

Horse Barn Burnt. 5 lost

Septber 3 2010

The fire started around 5:30pm. it is believed the bales got hot and caught fire. Bob could see the smoke from the house but it was already to late. Not being able to get in to the barn to try and save the horses the people who came to help were forced to watch the barn burn down.
The fire department fought the fire well into the night. The 5 horses that where inside at the time of the fire died.

This is a prayer i wrote i hope you like it.

Dear God Heavenly Father

You have blessed this world with amazing animals such as horses, and you have in trusted us with there care and for that I thank you. they have moved us in so many ways I can not begin to explain the depth in which they have touched our souls.

But Lord, God. There time with us is coming to an end and it breaks my heart that you will have them leave this world. Though they are going to a much batter place with wide open lush green pastures, where they will never know pain, hunger or sadness ever again.

I know some have failed to take proper care of these animals and so some are happy to leave, great full in that there no more pain. well other's have lived a life of privilege and with lots of love and care but it breaks my heart to see them go.

So no matter the kind of lives they lived pleas welcome then into your home with open arms and pleas let then know no more pain. And for those who where left unloved and uncared for in this cruel world pleas let them know I'm sorry, we're sorry we failed them and you Lord most of all.

So Lord listen to there stories and bless then all, for the lessons they taught us, the times they comforted us, for when they made us fall off and taught us how to get back on the saddle, for the tears they dried, the hearts they mended, for then they brought us to out knees and rose us to glory.

Thank you Lord for these amazing animals. Now I know there are ANGELS on earth, you just disguised them as HORSES.