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Kids Corner-April Magic 06

 

Muddy Magic in April

 

By Meagan Browne Age 14

GOLDEN BROWNE LLAMAS

PHELAN, CA

 

This year I went to the April Magic Show.  It was a lot of fun!  It was partly cloudy when we arrived at the equestrian center on Friday.  It hadn’t started to rain yet.  My parents unloaded our truck immediately and got the llama pens all set up first and then started pitching the tent that my friends, Matthew, Breanna and I were going to sleep in.  Matthew showed his new llama, Miss Pearl, at this show and my friend, Breanna, came to have fun and watch the llama show.  Even though it was supposed to rain and it was predicted to be very cold we all wanted to stay in the tent.  It started raining right after they got the tent pitched so we were happy they finished putting it up so quickly.  It actually stayed dry in the tent.  It is a three room tent so we each had our own room.  My parents got to stay in our friends’ Toy Box again.  They really liked doing that.

 

The first event the next day for me was Intermediate Youth Showmanship.  I placed first in my class showing GBL Bound For Glory.  We call him Bounder.  Then there was the Obstacle Classes. I think there were some fairly hard obstacles in my class.  In one obstacle you had to get the llama’s right back foot in the tire.  I was using Checkers for all the Youth Performance classes.  He did not like that obstacle.  He did all the other obstacles really well and to my surprise I won first place in my class!  The next class was P.R.  It went pretty well and I won second place.  Then came the Pack class.  I did all the obstacles well but when I put trash in Checkers’ pack I did not stop and make him stand still.  I won second place in the Pack class too.  To my surprise I won Grand Champion and High Point Intermediate Youth.  I won a really cool chair that is embroidered with High Point Intermediate Youth on it.  I really like it.

 

I also showed Miss Perfect and Bound For Glory in Novice Obstacle and P.R.  Miss Perfect placed second out of twenty six llamas in the obstacle class and got a ribbon in P.R. too!  Bounder placed really well in both classes as well even though he didn’t place in ribbon range.  I was very proud of both of them.

 

My friend, Matthew, just bought two of our llamas that I trained and brought one to show at this show.  He showed GBL Appi Mattox (Appi) at Indio and did really well.  He showed GBL Girl With the String of Pearls at this show and did really well with her too.  We call her Miss Pearl.  She looks like she’s wearing a string of pearls around her neck because she has a white marking around the base of her neck.  The interesting thing is that Miss Pearl was born right during April Magic last year.  My parents had to leave the show to make sure everything was going O.K. with her and her mom and I stayed at the show with Norma Stevens.  They came back the next morning to see me show.

 

Sunday I got to show several llamas in Halter classes.   This was my very first time doing that.  The first llama I showed was Tracey Wallace’s Kubota.  He placed third in a rather large class and I think he did really well.  Then I showed Miss Perfect and I was very nervous and couldn’t get her to stand still.  That made it very hard to show her at her best.  She did all right but not as good as she might have done if I could have gotten her to do what I needed her to do.  Then I showed Bound For Glory and he placed first in his class so I got to take him into the ring again when they are judged for Grand and Reserve Champion.  The last llama I got to show was Tracey’s My Bolero.  He came in third with some very stiff competition.  It was a great experience for me to get to show in Halter Classes.  I still have a lot to learn about doing that but it was fun even though I was pretty nervous about it.  I felt so good that Tracey asked me to show her llamas in Halter.

 

April Magic is a very worthwhile show to go to.  The auction was fun and the food was really good at lunch on Saturday.  If you come next year be sure to bring boots.  The mud is a real killer!

 

We have babies due in May and June so I guess I won’t get to come to Del Mar or LANA this year.  You’ll have to check out our cria page on www.goldenbrownellamas.com to see our new babies when they come.  Look for them in the show ring because I’ll be training them too!  See you at Moonlight Madness in July!

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