Walking On Volume 3, Issue 10, Nov./Dec. 2016 | Page 16

WHOA Show • Brownsville, KY November 6 Full results are available in our Show Results column. WHOA wrapped up its Kentucky Show Season with a flourish in Brownsville Kentucky November 6th. What can we say except “we dun good!” AND  YAHOO  ITS OVER FOR 2016!!!!! 13 Shows averaged 189 entries per show! November 6th, the Brownsville Show boosted 214 entries on a cool, windy day while Franklin the day before had 141 good walking horses come thru the entry gate. A huge thank you to the Edmonson County Saddle Club for always having the show grounds clean and ready for the WHOA Staff with tables, chairs, etc. ALTHOUGH I DID HAVE TO PROVIDE THE ROCKS to hold down the papers that flew around in the wind. Thanks to the Saddle Club and the 4 H Club for providing really good tasty,  refreshments made available in the concession stand - the funnel cake is THE BEST! Don’t know who left the sacks of candy on the announcer stand but Tommy, myself, and several others really enjoyed the treats! I would thank you but have NO IDEA who gifted us with the delicious treats. SOOOOO consider yourself thanked! Thanks to Larry and Dan Starnes for having obstacles available for the Trail Obstacle Classes at all the Kentucky Shows and most of the Tennessee Shows. What a help Larry, Dan, Vic Gernt, Scott Keene and J.J. Walters were in setting up and taking down obstacles, poles, barrels, and western riding necessities. You guys were a wonderful help and I truly appreciate you from the bottom of my heart. Larry and Linda Starnes donated the trophies for both the “HONEY SHOWS” and deserve a giant thank you for those coveted “trophies” and the Starnes were instrumental in making the Edmonson Saddle Club Show Grounds available for WHOA. We wound down the show season with a sigh of relief for the safe and wonderful season we experienced and although WE (at least Tommy and I) are ready for a week-end off we will miss our trips to Kentucky and reuniting with our horsey friends. I just can not brag on this show circuit ENUFF! I have met and made such good friends and the horses have improved drastically. Now if you get a ribbon on the Kentucky circuit you know you have a very nice walking horse. It will be a long cold (hopefully WET) winter and I will miss seeing everyone but look forward to Spring and new horses. It will be FUN to see the yearlings from this year showing under saddle as two-year-olds! – Sis Osborne 1. Ronald and Debbie Smothers of Nicholasville KY with just one of her many blue ribbon winner this past summer. This handsome fellow is Gi Gi’s Got Spots, the Weanling Winner. 2. Alan Calendor with the best ribbon girl all day, Brianna Calendor. Alan brought several horses from the Bobby Richards Stables where he is currently assisting Bobby with the training and this talented trainer left with SEVERAL blue ribbons. NICE HORSES! His daughters, Brianna and Hazel helped me give out the ribbons. Both girls were very well mannered and polite and a real help. 3. Young Hannah Starnes, 3rd generation of Starnes to show at the Brownsville Show, exited with a 3rd place ribbon aboard Rebelation who was “almost” as tired as Hannah was by this time. She could hardly hold her eyes open but managed to guide “Bud” around the ring unassisted. Congratulations! 16 • Walking On