Miniature Horse Show

We took the girls to a miniature horse show this past weekend and actually learned a lot about miniature horses. Shetland ponies are actually quite large compared to the rest of these breeds. The girls had a good time and we even watched part of the show where the owners had to guide their horses through an obstacle course. The course, which was a cute little makeshift neighborhood setting included among other obstacles, a bridge over a pretend river that the horse had to walk across, a sidewalk surrounded by flowers that the horse had to walk through backwards and the horse had to stand inside of a hula hoop while the owner 'checked the mailbox.' Other parts of the show included the horses pulling a small cart where the owners 'drove' them through a course. It was neat and quite different from the pig shows I grew up doing.

They set up stations where the kids learned about different aspects of miniature horses. Here Josie is learning about caring for the horse.


Evelyn enjoyed playing in the horse feed. And yes, I did have her hair up, but she always pulls it out so she spent the day at the horse show sporting her own unique do.


This nice young lady let us feed and pet her horse at one of the stations. The horses, which are divided into classes, can be as little as 30 inches tall when measured from their shoulders just at the beginning of their back. The next class started at 36 inches and then I think there was one more class after that and then the tallest class included shetland ponies.


Josie or Evelyn did not want to feed the horse, but enjoyed watching Kevin and I feed it hay. Evelyn just kept making horse sounds, which for her is not the traditional "neigh", but rather the bobbing of her head as she does the ppbbhhbbhh noise with her lips.