04/09: Trillium Hunter Jumper Association Championship
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Ed and I drove down to Palgrave today to watch our friend's daughter Jessica compete in the Trillium Championship. Ed thought this was a perfect opportunity to pull out the camera's and lenses and take some photos.
It was a bit of hike to get to the stable where Jess and her horse were hanging out. There were a lot of people, horses, bicycles and golf carts at the equestrian center. The bicycles and golf cards are used to get back and forth from the rings to the stables. Ontario is split into 7 regions. Winners from the 7 regions come to the championships. There were many events for both adults and children.
The stable area isn't just about work ... the riders are at the championships to have fun.
One of the events is "under saddle". All of the horses that are competing get in the ring, and if there are too many are split into 2 groups. The horses then walk or trot as requested by the judge.
Jess, her coach JJ, her dad Steve and Cowan.
Unfortunately Cowan bucked once in each of the rounds today, so no awards for Jess and Cowan. But jumping ahead into the future, they won 2nd place in one of their events on Saturday and 1st place in their event on Sunday. Think Jess was pretty happy with the results of the week.
It was a bit of hike to get to the stable where Jess and her horse were hanging out. There were a lot of people, horses, bicycles and golf carts at the equestrian center. The bicycles and golf cards are used to get back and forth from the rings to the stables. Ontario is split into 7 regions. Winners from the 7 regions come to the championships. There were many events for both adults and children.
The stable area isn't just about work ... the riders are at the championships to have fun.
One of the events is "under saddle". All of the horses that are competing get in the ring, and if there are too many are split into 2 groups. The horses then walk or trot as requested by the judge.
Jess, her coach JJ, her dad Steve and Cowan.
Unfortunately Cowan bucked once in each of the rounds today, so no awards for Jess and Cowan. But jumping ahead into the future, they won 2nd place in one of their events on Saturday and 1st place in their event on Sunday. Think Jess was pretty happy with the results of the week.