PPS Palooza Winter Spectacular

This past weekend, PPS hosted our Palooza Winter Spectacular. We had a great turnout and lots of awesome horses to judge!

Our prizes for the Open section were the Traditional model Foiled Again and an American Royal blanket.

For the Youth section, the prizes were the Traditional 75th Anniversary AQHA Tribute and an NRHA blanket.

PPS mascot, Paloma, even came and hung out at the Judges' table with us.

#squadgoals

Paloma is our first and main mascot, who is currently sold out! You can find out more info on her in our "Meet the Mascots" blog post.

The Open Halter division was won by Anna U. with Knightfire--

--and the Youth Halter division was won by Rachel J. with Camilla!

As for Performance scenes, we had some amazing entries in both divisions. Makenzie R. swept our Open Division Performance with both her incredible unrealistic scene and her Dressage set-up.

And Carleigh R. had some tough competition in the Youth Performance division, but she came away the winner!

Look at all the other awesome Performance set-ups we had this weekend:

I even managed to catch our judges and 4H members enjoying their downtime while the scenes were being set up.

Good job everyone, and congratulations to the winners! We look forward to seeing you all for the Manes & Tails Fundraiser show in March and the Halloween Edition show in October!

M&T 4H Holiday Party

We know that the county's annual End of Year celebration was in November, but Manes & Tails just finished our year off with a bang at our own little Christmas party.

Each member brought in a few cans for the TV6 Cantathon along with a dozen cookies to share with the group. Between everyone, we came up with 13 pounds of food- great job!

Missing a few in this shot, but still a great group nonetheless!

Members were divided off into teams for our last horse judging exercise of the year. Emma brought a few tricky-to-place horses and breed cards to match. There were no wrong answers as long as the teams were able to defend their choices to the judge, which all of them did! The parents even pulled a team together and did very well.

Minds at work.

When not working on breeds, everyone played a few rounds of bingo for some prizes. We prepared a version of the "Right/Left Game" for the kids, too.

Bingo!

Can't wait to see you all in January for our next meeting! We'll be judging Arabians and preparing for our next model horse show.

2016 4H Year-End Celebration

This year's 4H Year-End Celebration for Marquette County was a huge success! A big thanks to everyone who came, everyone who helped organize it, and to JD the DJ for the awesome music. 

Our lovely "backdrop" for group pictures.

One of our M&T members attended CWF this past year,
and I went the year before. An amazing trip to an amazing place!

My mother ended up with "Leader of the Year!"

And I came home with "Member of the Year" and a pin for "Judging."

Our club had a great turnout for the night!

Thanks for coming, everyone! M&T members, we will see you soon for our Christmas party at the December meeting. Hope you all had fun!

Manes & Tails at the Marquette County Fair

We're all set up and rolling for our first day at the Marquette County Fair. We'll be taking pictures of our booth and everyone painting, the drawing winners, and hopefully some other fair entertainment from today until Sunday, but I wanted to share with you all our Manes & Tails 4H board.

We currently have nine members, and everybody brings something real special to the table. This year for the fair, we were given one of the boards in the horse barn to showcase our members and what exactly it is that we do as a club.

We've included "Did you know?" facts about Breyer and Peter Stone horses alike, including little tidbits about NAMHSA, BreyerFest, and the shows we attend.

Make sure to pop by the horse barn if you're at the fair and see everything we've done as a club.

One year under our belts, everyone, and still going strong!

~Emma