I had so much fun at Equine Affaire! It was amazing! I got to see so many Haflingers, I was in heaven. All the Haflingers there seemed so much taller, wider, and lighter colored than Shyloh (except the chocolate Haffie). They were beautiful! Did I mention the foal? Cute!
We walked through all the shops, but I did not buy much. It was fun to look at all the stuff that they had and so overwhelming! I got a ton of information, too. And, I met a fellow blogger, Miranda from Hard To Handle. She was not hard to miss with her lime green cast!
The clinics were awesome. I went to a few clinics and learned a bunch of new things I want to try with Shyloh. I also saw some very bold horsemanship and cowboy mounted shooting. I watched Mark Bolender, a little bit of Aaron Ralston on Ranch and Trail, a minute of Todd Flettrich on Dressage, some Bob Coleman, P.H.d on Equine Body Scoring (and they used a Haflinger!), a quick glance of Stacy Westfall on reining and teaching spins, caught the end of Larry Kuyper on team penning and sorting, and the Double Dan Horsemanship. I only got video on two, but here is a little bit of them.
I saw some fantastic demonstrations. I got to see a ton of breeds that I have never seen. Very cool. I watched the 5 gaited Icelandic horses and Paso Finos. Interesting. I got to see Clydsedales and Shires driving a cart with their filly and colt next to them.I spend a good deal of time in the breed pavillion with Fresians, Rocky Mountain Horses, Trakehners, a Shire, Gypsy Vanners, mini donkeys, a blind Appaloosa, the Curly Horse, Mustangs, ponies, Andulusians, Arabians, and minis.
And, of course, Pfizer Fantasia! Wow. Let's just say that seeing a man standing on the back of one cantering horse and flipping into the air to land on a second cantering horse. . .breathtaking! I do wish I would have attended a Guy McClean clinic, he was hilarious and could canter a horse backwards!
If anyone has a chance to ever go to the Equine Affaire, I highly recommend it! I want to go every year now!
Enjoy the Haflingers!
There are always way too many clinicians I want to see at events like this. I can never get to all of them :(
ReplyDeleteI know! I wanted to clone myself!
DeleteIt was so nice to meet you, glad you had a fun time. I can't believe you didn't buy a lot, I had to stop myself a lot. There is always so much to do you have to time manage well.
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you too! I wish I could have stayed for all 4 days, I wanted to see more breed demos and clinics.
DeleteEnvy. Do you feel it? Your Equine Affair must be like our Rocky Mountain Horse Expo. It sounds wonderful. I didn't get enough time at our Expo... but I still came back energized!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a wonderful time! I didn't know there was such a thing as a chocolate Haffie? (I'm imagining them on the grocery store shelf, in the Easter aisle, right next to the chocolate bunnies.)
ReplyDeleteI think the technical term is liver, not chocolate, but liver doesn't sound nearly as nice!
DeleteCamryn here: Our Moms shoulda exchanged phone numbers so they coulda met up! Love the Haflinger video your Mom tooked. Mom's didn't turn out near as nicely. She was so into watching she gave up messing with the camera settings. Mom and her girl friends had such a blast as always. AND I truly benefited from the "shop till you drop celebration". Boooya it's like Christmas today. Her be driving Dad crazy talking bout Fantasia. Her even cried describing the therapy horse/kid part to him. That was her fav.
ReplyDeleteShould have! I exchanged numbers with Janine from Hoofprints of Enzo and Kaspin, but we ended up leaving early Saturday and didn't meet up. Glad mom had fun and you seemed to benefit!!
DeleteI can't even put in words how awesome Fantasia was and the whole event all together!
I knew you had to be in Haffy heaven, they were everywhere! I was walking around Voinavich before a clinic and heard a horse screaming like crazy- it was a Haffy! I was shocked.
ReplyDeleteThe Haffie by the arena? He was not happy to be stuck in that little stall. When I was there, he was rearing and just wanting to get out!
DeleteThat's so cool you got to meet Miranda! And got to see the Friesians! I'm so jealous LOL! I hope someday I can go to the Equine Affair. It sounds like so much fun. :D
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