March 30, 2008 - Santa Anita Ranch in Tres Pinos, CA
Entered in the "150 Novice" class - use of rein is allowed.
Gabilan Cutters
First cut was a brown cow. |
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Second cut was this black cow |
That's Billy Martin holding the herd |
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Reins too tight, too hard Minus one point each for rein, eye appeal |
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That's Bobby Cotta turning back |
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There goes the second cow out to the turnback rider who wasn't paying attention |
Third cut is another black cow |
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For an instant I thought this cow was going to run along the fence cuz the turnback rider was quite a bit father back. But the cow did a 180 and flew back toward the herd. We turned with it, but Ruby didn't fire fast enough to stay in position. Minus 3 points |
| Overall, we got a 64 score - 4th place out of 8 riders in the 150 Novice class. The judge marked down 3 points for losing working advantage and gave only 1 check (out of 2) for loose rein, amount of courage and eye appeal. I felt our performance was better than the November show where we marked a 67. Ruby probably needed much less rein direction than I was giving her this time, stopped pretty good, went all the way to the fence when necessary, kept pretty good position, had 1 really nice deep cut in the middle of the pen (2nd cow) and 1 pretty nice clean cut off the face of the herd (3rd cow). It was fun! Next show: April 12-13 same beautiful ranch with these same kind of super cattle. | ||