July Shows

July was a busy show month for those members that show their donkeys, with the Celebration and the Bedford County fair everyone had their hands full.  I would like to congratulate all those who participated at these shows, you make Tennessee proud.  With 2 new shows in the lineup this year we can maybe take a couple breaths but then it is back to work, or play depending on your perspective.

Let’s talk a little about the Celebration, it was hot, well I bet you knew that. I guess we could start at the beginning which would be NMDA halter. We had 24 ribbons awarded to animals exhibited by members. Fantastic, great job everyone. One of our Club Member's, Dennis Vonderfecht won Reserve Grand Champion Jack with his beautiful Donkey, Rusty Weir.  Katrina Fleener won Reserve Grand Champion with her donkey Golden Anne (this jennet will be 20 years old on August 21, 2011 and this was her first show). Dennis Vonderfecht won Reserve Grand Champion with his Gelding, Red Dynamo.

Next up was the ACOSA Nationals,  we Tennesseans kicked some spotted ASS!! Grand National Champion Jennet Antonia and Res Grand National Champion Willa Cather both belonged to Dennis Vonderfecht, Yea! Grand National Champion Jack was Tin Roof Sunday, again Dennis and Res Grand National Champion Jack was Bosco, Yea me. Other TN Donkeys that did well were, Hello Darlin- Sandy Carroll, Jealous Much- Half Ass Acres and Merlin- me. Last and definitely not the least our Mammoth friends Hollywood and High Noon belonging to Joe Thomas showed off their pretty spots.

Performance In-Hand classes up next. Lead Race where my husband Brian and my donkey Bosco got beat by a woman with a broken toe!! Do you think he will live that one down?  I believe there was another that also fell fate to the toe, dare I say Joe showing Dayle’s donkey Partial Eclypse (Mookie). Then in In-Hand Jumping our son Zachary and his donkey Beaujolais beat Dad with Bosco taking 3rd and 4th and yes 1st was the broken toe! In Hand-Trail we won’t even go there. In Coon Jumping we found some redemption with Bosco taking 2nd, Beaujolais got 4th and Dayle with Mookie picking up a 6th.

On the In-Hand Youth front Miss Katie Randall was smokin’ bringing it with two places in trail, a 3rd in Lead Race and in Coon Jumping she nabbed herself another 3rd.

Moving on to the harness classes, we do love those reins! This Pleasure Driving class was not for sissies! WOW what a class, any placement in this class was a winner so two thumbs up to Dayle and Mookie for their 3rd place and to Sandy and Hermes for 5th. Way to go girls. Obstacle driving was so tough only 4  finished. Mookie and Dayle snagged 3rd while Beaujolais and Zachary took 4th.  In Reinsmanship Zach and Beaujolais got 4th not only showing up Mom but Aunt Dayle as well with us taking 5th and 6th. Speed driving, how fun is that!  Zach and Beaujolais are like Maverick and Goose “They feel the need, the need for speed”. In Pole Bending less than half a second off the leader they took 2nd place with Mom and Bosco sliding into 3rd and a respectable 5th for Dayle and Mookie.  Up next in the Single Stake Race and our dynamic duel slide into a very fast 2nd with Sandy and Hermes grabbing 5th while mom was completely shut out, I may hear about that a little.
Then Snigging, what can I say (he loves Snigging) well again a fast 2nd place time was posted by Zach and Beaujolais followed by a 4th for Dayle and Mookie and 5th for Sandy and Hermes. So, all in all a pretty good show.  If you would like to see all the results you can go to http://www.tennessee-donkeys.com/ShelbyvilleShowResults2011.html

 

The Bedford County Fair is always a good time, it lacks the pressure of the Celebration. It is a bunch of good friends having a good time in the blistering heat, but with a breeze. Congratulations to
all! Here are the results:

 Adult Pleasure Driving-    

                     1^st CCC Love Bug                              Laura George

                     2^nd Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse    Dayle Haworth

                     3^rd Crooked Creek’s Bosco                Theresa Puckett

                     4^th Sassy’s Charlie Brown                   Sherry Puckett

                     5^th Valiant Diego                                Lydia Spears

Youth Pleasure Driving-          

                     1^st CCC Love Bug                               Brittany Conyer

                     2^nd Twister                                        Shyanne Lopp

One Barrel Speed Race-         

                     1^st Crooked Creek’s Beaujolais           Zachary Puckett

                     2^nd Crooked Creek’s Bosco                 Theresa Puckett

                     3^rd Rocking NT’s Nickelback               Bill Poole

                     4^th Sassy’s Charlie Brown                   Sherry Puckett

                     5^th Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse     Dayle Haworth

Pole Bending-                            

                     1^st Crooked Creek’s Beaujolais            Zachary Puckett

                     2^nd Crooked Creek’s Bosco                 Theresa Puckett

                     3^rd Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse      Dayle Haworth

                     4^th CCC Love Bug                                Laura George     

                     5^th Valiant Diego                                 Lydia Spears

Snigging-                                   

                     1^st Crooked Creek’s Beaujolais            Zachary Puckett

                     2^nd Sassy’s Charlie Brown                    Sherry Puckett

                     3^rd Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse      Dayle Haworth

                     4^th Stormy                                         Travis Henderson

                     5^th Twister                                         Shyanne Lopp

Halter- Std/Mammoth-         

                     1^st BAF Do A Fancy Dance                    Katie Randall

Halter wean/year Jacks & Geldings-   

                     1^st Castlewoods Red Gold Ransom        Dana Rathbun

                     2^nd BAF Short Spot Peppi                     Jerry Sircy

                     3^rd HHAA Jealous Much                       Dena Wilson

                     4^th BAF My World Joe Dirt                    Betty Sircy

                     5^th BAF kickin A                                  Kay Allen

Halter wean/year Jennets-
                     1^st Legendary Gypsy Rose Lee             Richard Fleener

                     2^nd LGL Tinker Razzle Dazzle               Jerry Sircy

                     3^rd Sassy’s Violet                                Sherry Puckett

                     4^th Crooked Creek’s Trinket                Theresa Puckett

                     5^th H & V Farms A J                             Hunter Hughes

Adult In Hand Jumping-  
                     1^st Crooked Creek’s Bosco                  Brian Puckett

                     2^nd Dan                                             Travis Henderson

                     3^rd Stormy                                        Travis Henderson

                     4^th Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse      Dayle Haworth

                     5^th Crooked Creek’s Beaujolais            Zach Puckett

Youth In Hand Jumping- 
                     1^st Circle C Radar                                Kendall Allen

                     2^nd KKR High Roller                             Katie Randall

                     3^rd CCC Love Bug                               Brittany Conyer

                     4^th Twister                                         Shyanne Lopp

Coon Jumping Std-           
                     1^st BAF Do A Fancy Dance                    Katie Randall

Coon Jumping Mini-               
                     1^st Dan                                             Travis Henderson

                     2^nd Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse    Dayle Haworth

                     3^rd Stormy                                       Travis Henderson

                     4^th CCC Love Bug                              Laura George

                     5^th KKR High Roller                            Katie Randall               

Adult In Hand Trail-                

                      1^st Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse      Dayle Haworth

                      2^nd Legendary’s Hearts Wide Open     Kandi Wilhoit

                      3^rd Stormy                                       Travis Henderson

                      4^th Lazy J’s Elvira                              Dana Rathbun

                      5^th Valiant Diego                                Lydia Spears

Youth In Hand Trail-              

                       1^st KKR High Roller                           Katie Randall

                       2^nd Circle C Radar                             Kendall Allen

                       3^rd Twister                                      Shyanne Lopp

                       4^th CCC Love Bug                              Brittany Conyer

Best Matched Pair-                   

                       1^st Stormy                                       Travis Henderson

                            Twister                                       Shyanne Lopp

                      2^nd Crooked Creek’s Bosco                 Brian Puckett

                            Crooked Creek’s Beaujolais          Zach Puckett

                      3^rd Stonegate Acres Partial Eclypse      Dayle Haworth

                            Rocking NT’s Nickelback               Bill Poole

                       4^th Circle C Radar                              Kay Allen

                             Valiant Diego                               Lydia Spears

Halter Jacks 2 & Over-                

                       1^st KKR Merlin                                   Brian Puckett

                       2^nd Sassy’s Charlie Brown                  Sherry Puckett

                       3^rd Crooked Creek’s Bosco                Theresa Puckett

Halter Geldings 2 & Over-       

                       1^st Rocking 615 Howington                 Dana Rathbun

                       2^nd KKR High Roller                            Katie Randall

                       3^rd Assphalt Acres Good Tipper           Diana Poole

                       4^th HHAA Lightfoot Lee                      Dena Wilson

                       5^th Circle C Radar                               Kendall Allen

Halter Jennets 2 & Over-         

                       1^st Lazy J’s Elvira                             Dana Rathbun

                       2^nd HHAA Bumble Bee                       Dayle Haworth 

                       3rd LGL Farm Li'l Misty                     Betty Sircy

                       4^th Legendary’s Hearts Wide Open     Kandi Wilhoit

                       5^th HHAA Gypsy Heart                       Dena Wilson