Thursday, August 14, 2014

Wise County 4-H Members Dominate at State 4-H Horse Show


Shelby Haggart HHaggof Bridgeport 4-H and Seth Byers of Decatur 4-H dominated the 3 year old stock horse futurity, taking home Grand Champion and Reserve Champion honors respectively.  The 3 Year Old Futurity is made up of three different classes; Reining, Stock Horse Pleasure and Trail.  The overall winners are cumulative score from the three different classes.

Shelby received Grand Champion 3 Year Old Stock Horse honors by placing 1st in Reining, 1st in Pleasure and 1st in Trail, making it a clean sweep.  In the regular Stock Horse Show division she made the finals in Working Cow Horse, Trail, Reining, Stock Horse Pleasure and Stock Horse Horsemanship.  Making the finals in all events is quite an accomplishment.  Shelby will be attending NCTC in Gainesville to ride stock horse at the collegiate level.

Seth Byers received Reserve Champion by placing 2nd in Stock Horse Pleasure, 3rd in Reining and 4th in Trail.  He also had a very good week with his yearling futurity gelding placing 4th in Halter and 3rd in Lounge Line.  In the regular show Seth placed 7th in Halter in 4 yr. Old Mares & Under, he was 5th in Western Riding and 7th in Stock Horse Horsemanship.

In the English Riding Show, Monika Qualls placed 9th in Equitation Over Fences and Working Hunter, 8th in Open Jumping and 7th in Hunter Hack.
Emma Karle, also a Wise County 4-H member participated in the Western Pleasure Class in the Qualifying Show.    

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