Lairg Show Results!

Well we finally did it! We finally took our Wildriders and horses to a show. It was the first show for nearly everyone there - including the horses. It was a great experience that we hope to repeat many times next summer with the best out of our Wildriders getting the opportunity to show and groom at Lairg, and Dornoch as well as our own in house competitions in the Easter and Summer holidays.

So how did they do? Excellent! We were so proud of all the Wildriders as some of them haven’t been riding for long at all, and for our girls who entered into the jumping competitions and had only started jumping recently it was an achievement to even be selected to compete in our name.

We were very proud of Chloe who got a second in jumping, a fifth in her ridden class, and a sixth on Bump in the Thelwell class (apparently she would have been placed higher had Bump not been so well behaved!), and Ella did an amazing job with Pollei who came fourth in her in hand class as she had just ripped a shoe off before entering the ring and barely had any tail left after visiting the stallion!

But the star of the show was our Fairy Gem, Gemma Murray, who has been volunteering at Highland Wildrides over the past few months. On her beautiful, big, grey, horse Mr Murphy, she cleaned up with a first in ridden turn out, a first in their ridden, a second in both of her show jumping classes, a third in their in hand class, and got one of the championships (in fact she just narrowly missed the second championship!). On the lead up to the show Gemma had helped us out a great deal by teaching jumping and riding lessons, mentoring the kids in the Wildriders Club in preparation for showing, transporting horses, lending us equipment, and supporting us in the ring - thank you so much Gemma.

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