Virtual Brush Box

Saturday before the fun show [Report], Coach Courtney sends a message asking if I have extra back numbers. She had 15. Needed 18. This was my answer:

That’s 21 numbers from three years of showing. Plus 5 more I found after the show for next year.

I’m too sentimental to toss my number immediately after a show. So, I heave it into the pile with other ASB stuff. (Yes, I have numbers from Previous Horse as well. Not all of them. Just the good shows. But I digress.) I didn’t keep track of which number went with which show. I might have kept my first number, if I knew which one it was. Some shows I would just as soon forget. It’s hard to feel pangs in the aggregate.

This is why I never throw anything out. If one waits long enough, the item turns out to be useful.

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I am the points recorder for the barn. Since this show doesn’t count for year-end, I don’t have to hunt down the results. Therefore, I don’t have exact titles for my classes. I know the first one was driving; the cart gave that away. I know the third one was equitation; the pattern, ditto. Otherwise, I simply stayed in the ring until they tossed me out. Oh, three blues and a white. I know that.

Greg took home a red from the driving. He got out-horsed.

It was a home show. That means if one isn’t riding, one is on the go. I need a girth. Take this horse into Leadline. No, no, that horse does not wear that bridle (pause to shudder). It’s a bit of a blur.

Greg was also a bit of a blur. He knows his way around barns, so I leave him to it. When I looked around for him, he was usually in the thick of things: harnessing both horses for the driving class, washing paint off a costume class entrant, and so on. What a star.

Next stop, Nationals!
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