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From Chrystal Moore..."Well
Taaron's horse Oreo went lame the first day so he was looking forward to
rescue race and thank goodness Taaron and I came in Second place
overall...We made Match races, not bad for the first time ever doing rescue
race... Taaron got back at camp and Said "that just made my whole state
show". I had bad and good days but turned out wonderful as I finished
third overall. I won some jackpot money for quads and figure 8 stake, I'm
the champion in the + division for those. To top off my state I made several
match races but I actually won Birangle!!! I walked away with $580! It
was so much fun and I'm very proud of Dist 4!!!"
From Joan Higgins..."I
had a ball!"
From Danielle McCants..."This was my first state show with
CGA. Me and my mare, Mandy, had a lot of fun. We brought home a Reserve
Champion title in AA 16 and under and won buckles for Barrels, Quadrangle
and Speed Ball." From Spring Krogue..."I didn't ride this year,
but my husband and I came down on Sunday to watch everyone...and wow, what
an awesome job everyone from District 4 did, congratulations to each and
every one of you for a job well done. I hope that your memories will
last a lifetime!"
From Bev Hampton..."I
attended the first weekend of the 2008 CGA State show to attend the Board of
Directors meeting as the District 4 delegate and support the district
working the Poles 1 event on Saturday at Setups and Sunday during the normal
show.
District 4 had a
great turn out this year at the state show. We had riders of every age and
divisions it seems. The main day our district had to work was on Sunday for
the Poles 1 event in Arena 1. We had several judges, Dianna Merrick, Ellen
Carr, Joanie Higgins, Cindy Williamson, Tina Chechourka and myself helping
out. Announcing and writing times we had Tina Chechourka, Spring Krogue and
myself. Laurie King worked one of the time writer jobs the entire time and
the other was shared by Juliett Primeau, Laura Curtiss, Karen Bidou and
Donna Neth. At the gate we had Matt Mazza, Karen Bidou, Tim King who worked
a couple shifts at the gate for us. We also had the Sam and Sam team….
Samantha Krimsky who was just there supporting her friends this year and
Tina’s nephew Sam who is just out here visiting for a while. We had a slew
of folks out throughout the day helping in the arena setting poles. We
started the day with Leon Lemen and Ricky Kapachinski then they were
relieved with Belle Malley and Bailey Merrick who were relieved by Matt
Malley and Aaron Hampton. We wrapped up the event with Roquel Merrick,
Shelby Burchell along with their male friends who I don’t recall the names!
I also saw Cindy Williamson out helping in the arena along with Chrystal
Moore’s mother. There were several others willing to help but with the
re-ride of hurry scurry some of our riders did not get finished in time to
come out and help. I thank you all for your help and I am sure there is one
or two of you that I forgot to mention as this is totally from memory so
please don’t be offended my thanks go out to you all whether mentioned or
not!! It was really great to see such a great group of people come together
to help out! We did our traditional District 4 workers spaghetti dinner
that evening. The dinner was prepared by Anna & Dave Hernandez, Laura
Curtiss and Bev Hampton. There was plenty of food to go around but as
Julliett found out, we were cooking and cleaning right on time to make it to
the match races that night! I got to enjoy watching several of our riders
in match races that night before Aaron and I took off to head home. No
winners that night but I believe every one enjoyed the fun!
I am hopeful my
back will hold out and I will be back to riding soon so I can plan to attend
the full week next year. Just a reminder to everyone that the state awards
are presented at convention in November. You can sign up now for your
2008/2009 award season and get an early start on earning next years awards!"
From Dianna Malley..."Well
our camp was wonderful and the week was great. Dist 4 was well
represented. Many new faces in match races. Jessica Howes and Taylor Neth.
My favorite was running a supreme in poles one and running match races
against my daughter. Seeing Anna Hernandez and Tricia Kash in match races
was great. Bailey took Twix finally and did good and Brayden bumped out of
his division and was happy about that. Belle Malley had a great time
and rode team events with Courtney Curtis." |
