Everything Horses and Livestock® Magazine May 2018 Vol 3 Issue 2

Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine ®

them at their competitive best in Sunday’s championship classes. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. We knew the horses looked the best they ever had, after being switched to Total Equine feed: lustrous coats, tails, and manes, and easy-to-maintain show weight. So, we decided to give it a try in Iowa. By the time the dust had settled, we’d qualified each of the four horses we brought for championship classes. We concentrated our efforts on two horses for the championships, our mare, Magnifica Maya, PVF, and gelding, KPR Tornado, and we rode both to championships, even advancing Tornado to

Champion of Champions, Luxury Gelding! (He won two championships and a reserve championship on the way to the champion of champions title.) We’re particularly proud of great granddaughter, Bailey Murphy, who also rode Maya in the junior classes, and placed as Reserve High Point Junior Rider. You couldn’t ask for much better than that, and Total Equine deserves full credit for making the horses’ coats look so good!

This year, the Minnesota Peruvian horse show was held in Iowa (go figure!), so we jumped at the chance to attend a show so close to home. The biggest disadvantage was that it was a two-day competition, rather than extending for three days. In two-day shows, so many classes are crammed together, that competitors from smaller ranches, like ours, with only two riders, are exhausted by the end of the competition. (Two riders, four horses, and a total of twenty-one classes can do that!) Larger breeders often bring three or four riders per show. It’s hard to retain enough energy, after riding your horses through the qualifying classes on Saturday, to present

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