Sunday, August 17, 2025

Plastic Performance Ponies-English

     My last division of the day, in AR/CM at Plastic Performance Ponies, was English. I started out with jumper, which was kind of tricky for me to manage. I sold my old jumper jump and I had to add the necessary elements to make my hunter jump work. My flags (which I remembered) kept trying to fall down, I forgot my horse's boots, so many things. But I remembered to take a picture of a third place entry of mine, so that feels like a win to me. 
      The next class was English games and I put up my mimosa hunter classic entry. This was another group of miniatures I bought from Carrie Sloan Meyer. The documentation could have been enough with the little mimosa glass, but the pitcher with the pouring drink added a bit of fun. It's not necessary for the entry, but it was fun. I added the jump since they are often used in mimosa hunter. This one I also bought at Breyerfest from Model Horse Jumps (they are also on etsy) and not only is it a nice jump, it was super affordable. It also adds a bit more to my games entry and I love that. 
      The next class was hunter and I was happy to set up my hunter jump in the usual way that made sense to me. This super amazing jump was made for me many years ago by my friend Marci Driscol. 
     After hunter it was time for dressage. I remembered my bridle number and I remembered to take the number off the back of the rider. Sometimes details escape me, but for this show I was pretty on top of things. 
     After dressage it was time for other English. I put in my versatility entry with new documentation I made the week before the show. I have used a versatility entry like this many times over the years, and when I start with English I usually just add a card that says they started in English tack, since I originally made the documentation for western. My favorite part of this entry is I took all of the reference photos on the documentation. 
     Next up was arena trail. Another poles entry, because most of my arena trail entries are poles entries. 
      The last class in the English division for Mocha Latte was Huntseat pleasure other type. 
     Then it was time for the callbacks. I wasn't really sure how Mocha Latte would do since she had a of a rockier time in the English division. Still, she did quite well and managed to get Champion in the English divison. 
      I have one more post I want to do about PPP and I will get that up soon!
 

2 comments:

Pam N. said...

I’ve really enjoyed following along in your different classes, and seeing how well Mocha Latte did! So many details!

Susan Wade said...

Enjoying following your posts: they make me want to try performance classes.