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Club News: Midwest Horse Fair Wrap-Up


By Eleanore Chiquoine, Marie Stewart, and Amy Ziegler
Rising to
this year's "Let the Games Begin!" theme, the Wisconsin Morgan Horse Club (WMHC)
had a winning presence at the 2010 Midwest Horse Fair. Preliminary numbers show
that Friday's attendance set a record (18,500) and the total attendance for this
year's three-day event exceeded last year's by 4,000 for a total attendance this
year of 54,000. This is a great venue for promoting the Morgan
breed!

The WMHC booth was located near the front of Barn #1, so a
maximum number of visitors had the opportunity to meet and greet Morgans in our
attractive booth area. In keeping with the "Games" theme, classical Greek
cornices and columns topped royal blue backdrops and drapes. Raffle items such
as a wooden saddle rack and two free Breyer horse drawings drew visitors into
the booth, where they could then choose from a wide assortment of Morgan
literature for all ages. Morgan horse buttons and tattoos were a big hit!
Twelve Morgans
participated this year, including six stallions. The stallions were THI
Cherokee, owned by Paula and David Neice; Bethesda Horus, owned by Katz and Gary
Jackson; Red Rose Moonshine, owned by Suzanne Johnson and Dale Hammonds;
Treble's Mucho Uno, owned by Rocky and Diana Schliefer; JCW Revs Cajun
Sundancer, owned by Carolyn Harris; and HyLee Galaxy's Wild Irish, owned by
HyLee Farm.
The mares and geldings participating were Baroncrest Oberon,
owned by Adrienne and Larry Gage; Gable's Grindelwald, owned by Sam Bartnik and
Mary Ellen Gray; Rustic V Total Revelation, owned by Rustic View Farm;
Dragonsmeade Hot Ticket, owned by Eastwich Morgans; W's Ready To Rumble, owned
and shown by Joann Ace; and TVT Invictus, owned by Sara Clark.
Though
experienced show horses, three of the four horses in the booth had never been to
something like the Midwest Horse Fair. However, nothing phased these horses, not
the crush of the crowd, the hands reaching toward a soft nose, or the flash of
cameras and ringing of cell phones. In typical Morgan fashion, the horses
impressed everyone with their steadiness and affability. The club used an empty
stall for demonstrations on body clipping and show presentation.
The
crowds watched Morgans in the breed demonstrations being ridden in western,
hunter seat, and English pleasure, driven, executing reining patterns, and even
doing a mounted shooting demonstration. In other demonstrations, THI Cherokee
participated in the Liberty demonstrations and HyLee's Galaxy's Wild Irish
participated in the Stallion Avenue Revue. Joann Ace and W's Ready To Rumble won
a reserve title in the Wind Rider Challenge. In this popular event, horse and
rider compete on a course that includes challenges drawn from gymkhana,
Dressage, reining patterns, jousting, trail obstacles, hunter/jumper courses,
and more.
The 2010 Midwest Horse Fair was a real winner. The Morgans
looked sleek and fit, behaved well, and brought home the gold for WMHC!