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"Congrats to Tico who was Grand Champion at the Moses Lake Show and Flotren for getting the Versatility Award." Thanks Susan for the congratulations and giving us "delusions of grandeur"... Although we feel he was quite "Grand" indeed, Tico was merely the blue ribbon winner of the mature stallion class at the Moses Lake show (there were no championship classes). It was a class of all (NFHR) blue ribbon stallions so we are quite proud of his accomplishment. It was indeed terrific to see Fløtren come out and show what a wonderful performance horse and stallion (all of his offspring at the show did quite well) he is once again. Congratulations to Don and Heather Torgenrud and Tim Jedra on their performance with this magnificent stallion! Of course a giant congratulations and thank you is due to all of the volunteers and participants for making this such a fun, safe, and thoroughly enjoyable event. As the show photographer I got a lot of good photos, a few great ones,and of course some not so good ones in the challenging lighting of the indoor arena. Thanks goodness you can choose to only publish the good ones. Hopefully next year I can get out from behind the camera and pick up the reins. It was wonderful to see so many new faces along with all of the familiar ones (I won't use the word "old"), people and horses alike. This was true of the evaluation too as about half of the participants were new to the evaluation system. Speaking of the evaluation and as the coordinator of the event, I would personally like to thank all of the volunteers who were nothing short of spectacular in helping make this event possible. Led by Barb Lynch as the technical delegate and with the indispensable help of her husband Fred, Taffy Mercer, David VanHoof, Karl Froelich, and others, the event went quite well and ran fairly smoothly, especially for our first time running with a new staff at a new facility. In the future I think we can improve our scheduling a bit to keep things flowing even smoother, but that was my issue and that's why they pay me the big bucks!:) I would also like to congratulate all of the participants on a job well done in preparing and presenting their horses. Some very nice quality horses were presented for conformation and movement (some from farms and lines that have not previously been well represented in the evaluations) as you will see in the results and many of the performance tests were among the best I've seen. Anyway, the dust hasn't yet settled here at Olivia Farm from last weeks events and we are already changing gears to prepare for the Libby show, so I won't take extra time and spill the beans as to who did what and how at Moses Lake, choosing to leave it up to the owners, handlers, the Fjord Herald, and Fjord News Northwest instead. Anyway, I hope to have some highlight photos posted to the web before too long for all to see. I'll let you know as soon as I do. I hope you all can make it to next year's show and I look forward to seeing some of you at Libby in a week and a half! Mange Takk! Dan Watanabe Olivia Farm, Inc. http://www.oliviafarm.com (509) 258-7348 The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
