This message is from: Starfire Farm <starfiref...@usa.net>
We got back home late Saturday night. My original post was a reply to Jerry Friz's, but I don't see it here or in the archives yet, so I am re-posting. If it duplicates, my apologies. I was able to put some video up on the Starfire Farm Facebook page, for anyone who would like to see our Saturday night performance (will try get to YouTube tomorrow). Wayne Williams, the announcer from the NFHR 25th Anniversary, was the announcer for the Mane Event and he is always very complimentary of our Fjords. I can't say enough about Sarah Reidy and Shari McCallum-Clark. Both have really embraced a goal of learning to ride at a "higher" level (if you will) and have been exceptionally fun to perform with. John Arthur and Magnum could not be happier with their performance partners! My sincere thanks to Sarah and Shari for being so engaged, flexible and fun to perform with. Thanks to Christi Kipple and Elvis Lucil for your "background" support. Also, we had the privilege to perform with an amazing horseman and entertainer, Guy McLean, who hails from Australia. He has been on an eight month tour with his Australian stock horses and plans to stay here in the states. He and his horses performed at the WEG. If you have an opportunity to see this amazing horseman in person, you should do whatever you can to go see him. He is honest, engaging, talented and his message comes from the heart. His liberty work is thought provoking and inspiring, to say the least. And...he was very complimentary of our performance and what we have accomplished with our Fjords! So, if you get the chance, go see him. Otherwise, look at his videos on YouTube. There are quite a few. I have to say, part of his presentation is doing some amazing Aussie whip cracking while demonstrating his training and not all of the horses performing in the Mane Event could handle the sound of that. It was like firecrackers going off. Sarah, Shari and I happened to be in the arena of the Events Center schooling our horses at the same time he was doing his afternoon presentation on Friday (we were in one half, he was in the other). The whip-cracking was a non-event for our boys. The following day some other performers were trying to school their horses in the warm-up arena, which is accessed via a tunnel...though in a completely separate location no where near his presentation...and they sent someone out to him to tell him that their horses could not handle the whip cracking. Well, of course he told them that he was being paid to do his presentation (he can crack two whips on either side of a horse or standing on his horses backs cracking two like helicopter blades...effortlessly) that the whips were part of his job and he continued to use them where it fit in to his presentation. Just another reason he told us that he was impressed with our Fjords, so we can all be proud of that. Oh, yea and he signed my boot......(long story....right Shari and Sarah?...it started in Nashville...... ;-) We have been invited to perform at the Ride for the Cure at High Prairie in April and at the Ballet on Horseback at the Boulder County Fair in August. Will try to get more detail out later. Take care all, Beth -- Beth Beymer and Sandy North Starfire Farm, LLC www.starfirefarm.com Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
