We won $600 this weekend!

She just keeps getting better! She tries hard and that makes her even more fun!

 

Jill, me and the star of the show, Shuttle.

 

Shuttle leading through the warm-up pen.

 

Shuttle and her hip number.

This is Streakin Iron, aka, Sonora, or Nora. She is expected to foal sometime in late May or early June. I’m so excited! It’ll be my first baby horse! Yippee!

Omg. Is this horse not the cutest creature you’ve ever seen?

I love her. She wishes to be a wild mustang, free to roam the prairies!

http://go-ronaldo.com/MarketingInformation.aspx

General U.S. Population/Equestrian Demographics

Total attendance at sanctioned horse-related events: 88,000,000.

The number of people over the age of 12 in the United States who ride a horse at least once every year: 27,000,000.

The number of people over the age of 12 in the Untied States who ride a horse on a regular basis: 14,580,000

The number of horses owned in the United States : 6,900,000.

The number of horse owners in the United States : 2,200,000.

www.horsecouncil.org/ahcstats.html

How Many People are Involved in the Industry? ..

941,000 people participated in racing in either a professional or volunteer capacity.

* How Many Horses are There?

There are 6.9 million horses in the U.S. , including both commercial and recreational horses. 725,000 of those horses are involved in racing and race horse breeding, while 1,974,000 and 2,970,000 are used in showing and recreation, respectively. 1,262,800 are used in other activities, such as farm and ranch work, rodeo, polo, police work, etc.

* How Many People are Involved in the Industry?
o 7.1 million Americans are involved in the industry as horse owners, service providers, employees and volunteers.
o 3.6 million and 4.3 million of those participated in showing and recreation, respectively, with some overlap in cases of people who participate in both activities.
o 941,000 people participated in racing in either a professional or volunteer capacity.
o 1.9 million people own horses. In addition to the people actually involved in the industry, tens of millions more Americans participate as spectators.

Here is video from the weekend.

I believe this made Shuttle’s 8th time to be entered. Her run really wasn’t bad, save for two things- she CAN run faster, and her second barrel was NOT pretty.