The Standardbred Connection January 2016 | Page 16

the ground. The wooden poles, that she made,
and painted beautifully, were too close together.
The judge explained that in a live horse show,
the horse’s trotting gait would have problems trotting over the poles. Like in halter, your horse will
have a tag with the horse’s name, sex, and breed.
Some model shows require a 3 x 5 card next to
the set-up that explains the performance, so the
judges can read it and know what the set-up is
showing. Again, feel free to use one of your model
horses as a Standardbred in these classes.

to keep the back up. It was a conversation piece
for the 4-H kids to see before my class was called.
Next, I printed out a tote board photo, I found on
Google images, and glued it to the back. The
cloud scrapbook paper you see next to it, was purchased at Michael’s craft store. I cut it to size, and
glued it on. I also bought the fake grass there, and
I bought some greens and the tree. The red flowers were from a silk flower stem I bought. I cut the
branches and placed where I wanted to add the

Creating the Scene
I wanted to promote harness racing and entered in
the Creative Scene class. After I was pinned with
a first place, my judge gave me a suggestion to
place it in “Other Performance” since no one ever
does a harness racer. She loved seeing the harness racing performance in Creative Scene. So,
how did I put my creative scene together? First, I
went to Costco and got a box that I knew would be
large enough to create my scene. I cut the box,
knowing I would need something to keep the back
standing up. So I used one of my own horse’s
winner circle photos in a frame to place behind it

2015 marked the introduction of
Foiled Again’s model.