The first weekend in June the Cowboys States Reining Horse Assn. hold their first NRHA show (National Reining Horse Assn) here in Gillette. This picture is of Mark and Annie in their turn around. I tried to post a video I made of one of his runs but I wasn't smart enough to get it done. I'll have to work on that. Mark and Annie rode in one class on Saturday and two on Sunday of that weekend. He did really well, but one of the runs on Sunday was really awesome. This was Mark's first NRHA show. He mostly shows in the AQHA (American Quarter Horse Assn.) shows. The AQHA shows are very family friendly and pretty laid back, the NRHA is a little different. It seemed like the people there were trainers or people that had come with their trainers and were pretty serious about winning. On Sunday Mark rode in a Non Pro Rookie Level 1 and a Non Pro Rookie Level 2 class. Both classes had 20-23 people in them and Mark place third in both classes. In the warm up pen before one of those classes a woman came up to him and ask him to cinch her saddle up. She explained that her 'trainer' had went to the barn to get her other horse ready and she wasn't sure how to cinch her saddle. So Mark cinched her saddle up for her. Sure enough the woman won the class. Mark got a good laugh out of it. She may have won and he got third but he trained his own horse and he knows how to saddle it.
So we hit the road for three days next week in Rapid City for an AQHA show.
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