The excitement is building!

Today is only one week from the time we depart for the Sport Horse Nationals Horse Show in Lexington, Kentucky at the Kentucky Horse Park.

Although Sarah is only taking two horses to show, they are both genuine contenders for High Marks!

Kissemsong is a Half/Arabian-Half/Thoroughbred chestnut 3 year old filly showing in Sport Horse Mares in hand (showing in halter), owned by our friend Shirley Nowak.

Canadian Justina is a purebred bay Arabian mare that Sarah owns and she will be showing in four carriage driving classes.

(Photo on the top: Justina pictured in 2009 at Walnut Hill in New York in 2009, her first driving competition and Photo on the below is Justina hitched to the new Wicker carriage driving at the Hossfeld's last month for harness tweeking)

The two girls going with us are Kelsey and Katie. Both will be sixteen by the time we leave for the show. The girls are working for the Arabian Horse Association on the "Jump" crew. They will be setting up jump courses and replacing any knocked down rails or jumps etc. They start their jobs on Tuesday at 8 a.m. and finish on Sunday. Each girl is working for pay, to help defray the expense of their individual horses.

All the classes will be shown in the covered arena. Two of Sarah's clients will also be attending to "root for the home team".

It is nice to have that kind of support. Nice that they will bring food to contribute to the communal pot for meals in the motor home. The concession stand on the grounds is "blah" and that would be a compliment! We will be camping for the whole week with the motorhome "Georgie Boy" (it's a 1987 model).

We are going with the intention of bringing home "the gold"!

Wish us luck and sunshine.

(Last time we competed in 2009 it rained for 8 days straight. The sun came out the day we left)