The Road Trip Begins 9/19/09

Leaving the barn

Hopping right in the trailer as always

Rex my buddy for the drive out & our first nights rest, lol...we stopped and made sandwiches that Suzanne sent with us and that was it. The plan was to get 6-8hrs sleep that night, but it didn't happen that way

Jubal's box stall on the road. He was absoutley perfect in the trailer! He was quiet, calm, and relaxed. He never moved while the trailer was in motion...which was about 55hrs almost straight through!

Stretching at Albaquerque for a few minutes. We were suppost to rest for 6-8hrs but missed our stop.

Okay I will update more, but for now I have to go tend to the creature before it gets dark

The Truck & Trailer...isn't it perty? We stopped for breakfast in Santa Rosa, NM to find a spot to work Jubal.

The locals pointed us toward the rodeo grounds that just happened to be in town!

We saw this as we passed by on the freeway & had to stop in for a picture. It's the world's largest cross outside of Amarillo, TX.

Working out in Vinita Oklahoma at the place we stopped for the night or atleast 4 hrs

Rex getting Jubal's home ready.

We arrived at the Horse Park monday 10:30p.m. Kentucky time.

Jubal comfortable in his new home.

Jubal on his first outing at the horse park Tuesday morning. Perfect horse, Perfect weather, Perfect countryside!

Pulling into the Kentucky horse park this morning (wen. 9/23) It's so beautiful!

Okay I got to go work the boy out, hope you’re enjoying the page.

This is to give you an idea of how big our class is. There are 27 horses pictured...the amount in Jubal's & my class.

Here we are working in the indoor arena that was pictured above. This is the arena that will be used during the FEI World Equestrian games 2010. It is climate controlled and you are not allowed to leave manure any where! <~ Go figure..isn't this a horse facility?"

It’s my birthday and I’m going to a barn party this evening…and perhaps a horse auction.?. Yes, I already found a place to buy more creatures ::hehe:: Don’t worry I’m sure they are out of my price range…I hear they go for 1/2 mil. ~Tootals~

I forgot to tell you all the class starts at 12:00 KY time Friday 9/25 (9:00 CA time) and our time to go is 12:25 with awards at 2:25. We are in ring 2 (which I think has the better panel of judges). Click Here for the link to the live video. We are in the Covered Arena! Yes you have to register with the website to view the video, it’s free.

Alright, well what a disappointing day ::ugh:: Will get the video posted so all can see my misery, lol. It’s uploading onto youtube as we speak. He has been perfect this whole trip, have worked him twice a day in all the different arenas and even warming up this morning he was great! Coming into the ring he was calm as usual and set up nicely and as judged asked “how old” I proudly said “3″ as my colt was behaving quite nicely and then as you can see on the video something caught his attention..or..? I dunno, but he was an Idiot!
Even once we got out of the show ring he was calm again and I had people video me out there and they commented at how well behaved he was ::ugh:: again. Then as I was looking at the posted scores I had a gentleman come up to me that said…”They lose as big as they win” and I said “did you see my colt go” he replied “no, but I know he would’ve won” ::ugh:: again. Yeah, the scores to get into the top ten were not that spectacular and we should’ve easily made that and had a run at the top ::ugh:: again. Anyway, it is what it is and the judges were very leniant on there scoring of us.

This is us out in the warm-up after the class...

Us standing quietly after the class.

Jubal snoozing in his stall after his big debut...dreaming of his next show

This is Photo Shoot #2 on Saturday 9/26 the day after the show…

Do we look like each other or what?

Same expression?

I got to meet my favorite race horse...CIGAR! How fun

Cigar

Patty my helper & photographer along the way home

Loading up. Patty filling Jubal's water to begin the trip back home.

Jubal tearing it up in Big Cabin, Oklahoma on 9/28. I guess he had enough of a 10x10 stall...he probably ran for about an hour. Though as you can see he had his contained moments.

Contained in Oklahoma

Where we stayed in Oklahoma on a 1000 acre ranch.

Jubal trotting easy in Amarillo, TX on 9/29 before our trek to AZ.

Some where in New Mexico 9/29

Working out this morning 9/30 in Flagstaff, AZ before the last leg of our journey home. It sure was a gorgeous morning up there after it had rained that night. Oh, and we got to hear an elk out there last night...how cool is that.?.

Beautiful Flagstaff

I had the most absolutely fabulous time and want to thank EVERYONE who got us there and back safely!! It was an amazing journey start to finish and what a grand experience you all allowed us to have!