Horse Judging!

Well, today we had the first Horse Judging practice!
In Horse Judging you learn about the physical ideals of different horse breeds (for halter classes) and performance perfection, faults, manuvers, styles, and scoring (for riding). At the Begining of May we have competition and put our knowledge to the test. This is my 2nd year of participating in Horse Judging and my last year of being a junior 4-h'er.
We didn't have the bigest group we've ever had (It was only Leah and I) but we still had fun! Because we were in such a small group we did "Hippology Slides". When you do this you view about 20-25 pictures with questions attatched and you answer them in order and at the end see how many you got right.
This Monday at the next "Young Riders" 4-h meeting leah and I are going to each give a set of reasons (Reasons are your placing of a class of horses and your reasons for placing the horses that way. At competition we give about 4 sets of reasons and judge about 8 different classes.) We hope to draw a significantly larger group to the next meeting.