Wednesday, September 23, 2009

September 28th horse judging practice

LAST MEETING before the competition!!

Please bring your binders and a notebook to practice taking notes on the horse judging classes

We will be practicing a number of classes for placements and oral reasons
We will also be going over instructions for the contest
what to bring
rides
what to wear
etc.

see you all Monday!

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Horse judging meeting September 21 at the extension office from 5:30PM-7:00PM

Agenda:
  1. Review English Equitation and English Pleasure (Hunt Seat Pleasure)
  2. Review transition words to use in oral reasons
  3. Practice giving oral reasons with different transition words
  4. Review halter

websites for transition words..

Thank you to Stephanie Reicks for geting this list together!! please have a look at some of these words to use in your oral reasons
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/trans1.html
https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/135/transw.html
http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p2289oral.pdf
http://cimc.alcaweb.org/ag/1001/instructor/08-resources/08-terms.pdf
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/an_sci/extension/horse/PDF%20Files/Intro_Horse_Judging_Manual.pdf
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4H056

Friday, September 4, 2009

Monday September 7th

We will be reviewing western horsemanship and reviewing your reasons, then starting on showmanship
see you at the extension office at 5:30PM-7PM