This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all We just got back from a super Sat event and must share. We took our 3 Fjords to a charity event at the Smoky Mtn Expo Center in eastern Tn. There were about 35-40 breeds presented (some demos, some just one representative) along with neat demos such as carriage drill team, polo, foxhunting (w/ hounds), civil war cavalry, sheriff's mounted, peruvians. Wow, a lot to show off equines for a good cause (Crumley House brain injury rehab. Anyway..... we did a pattern with one driving Fjord, one riding. (It was basically ADS Prelim test 2) in a huge arena, rider mirroring driver. The guys did GREAT, I had such a blast, I am sure the audience was impressed. (I was when I was center arena, while Curt rode a canter circle by me and the announcer said, "What a nice flying lead change" I turned to the friend with me and said, "They don't do that", guess they did Saturday!) Anyway, we met lots of folks that had never seen a Fjord before, they were very receptive. Thanks Mike for having that one-pager on the NFHR site, we make B&W copies and take them with us for these occasions. I really love the way the guys performed in and out of the arena Sat and even tho we are not breeders, we do pass on names and suggest contacts for folks we meet on these "goodwill" missions of ours. BTW, our POC for this was our driving trainer, she did a tandem to a random demo in the arena and it went flawlessly. A random is new to me, I enjoyed it immensely (even tho we were all in the arena in case.... can never have too many ground crews sometimes). any way, just wanted to tell ya all that our Fjord crew did great ambassador duty as they have for Equitana, the No. VA draft horse assoc and they will both be showing at an "A" level dressage show week after next, last of the season. We have body clipped all, as VA is way too hot for the hairy ones. Marsha Korose in Manassas VA with Fjords Caribo (g-14), Solveig (m-4) and Tobyn (g-2 who was just ambassador of fun this weekend)
