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Each day Jasmyn Rivait is reporting from the Youth World Cup on
the happenings of Team Canada. |
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July 3rd 2010
Today was the first of many busy days in Oklahoma. We decorated
the hallway by our rooms which by the way look amazing..and the
best! Later in the day all of the teams loaded onto 2 buses and
went down to the fairgrounds for the Opening Ceremonies. All the
teams were introduced and paraded down the center of the arena.
After that we loaded back onto our bus back to the Embassy
Suites hotel, where all of the teams got together to eat,
socialize, and exchange our gifts. |
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July 4th 2010
We drew our horses today which turned out very well. Rianna
Storey, Paige Fleetwood, and Danielle Olafson had attended the
Showmanship Clinic, kindly hosted by Patti Carter.
We decorated our stalls with all Canadian trade marks. We put up
4 Large Canadian flags, 2 CQHA curtains, a garden containing red
and white flowers, a Canadian banner, profile pages on each one
of us, and last but not last a moose holding a hockey stick with
a hockey puck with EH!
The baseball game we were supposed to watch had been canceled
because of rain so we all loaded the buses and headed back to
our hotel for the night. |
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July 5th 2010
The early mornings have now started, we have to be up around
5:00 am just to be able to eat breakfast and then be on the
buses right by 7:00 am.
Our team Canada members and horses did very well in the clinics
today, which included Horsemanship, Hunter Under Saddle, and
Western Riding. We also got to take care of 2 of the alternate
horses for AQHA.
After the hot, humid day at the barn we headed off to the water
park for some fun. |
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July 6th 2010
It was a lot hotter down here in Oklahoma today.
We had clinics in Hunt Seat Equitation, Trail, and Western
Pleasure today. All the horses were very good for their clinics.
After the clinics and dinner were over we stayed at the
fairgrounds for some fun filled games in the arena, like seeing
who can put the most shirts on or volley ball, etc. We all had a
good time and what felt like a long day. |
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July 7th, 2010
It seems like the weather just keeps getting hotter down here.
Deejay Reid had competeed in the cutting class today, the first
class of the Youth World Cup, riding JK Trouble. They had scored
two 62's but did not make it into the top 10.
We went to the Cowboy Museum which was very interesting. After
the museum, we came back to the barn and prepped the horses for
tomorrow's full day of showing. |
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July 8th, 2010
Today we had a really busy show schedule, we had Showmanship,
Western Pleasure, Horsemanship, Hunter Uunder Saddle, Hunt Seat
Equitation, Western Riding and Trail.
Danielle Olafson placed 7th in the Hunter Under Saddle, Rianna
Storey placed 2nd Horsemanship and 6th in the Equitation, Morgan
Shipka placed 6th in the Horsemanship also, and last but not
least Paige Carter placed 3rd in the Trail.
After the long day, we came back to the hotel for free time. |
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July 9th, 2010
First thing this morning, Paige Carter and Rianna Storey drew
their reining horses. They both rode wonderfuly if I do say so
myself.
Paige's pattern was very well riden and she scored two
good 68's placing her 8th. Her second placing was not calculated
and that will be fixed tomorrow.
Rianna, however,
ended up getting a horse a little on the wild side. She did an
amazing job showing her horse as well as she could! |
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July 10th, 2010
After figuring out Paige's reinging score from yesterday, it
turned out to be good enough for 5th place unde the second
judge.
Today was our last day showing, Morgan Shipka placed 6th in the
horsemanship, Danielle placed 9th in horsemanship, and she also
placed 5th in the showmanship. Danielle also won the gold medal
in the horsemanship challenge later on in the evening at the
Battle in the Saddle. After the horsemanship we watched the
Battle in the Saddle competition.
We had also had to take down all of our stall decorations today
since it would be our last day at the barns. |
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July 11th, 2010
Today was the last day of the YWC 2010. We had an awards
breakfast. Danielle had won a personal Reserve Champion in the
Hunter Under Saddle.
Germany won the overall Reserve Champion, winning Montana Silver
Smith spurs. The winning team of the Youth World Cup for
2010 was the United States. Canada finished in 7th place
overall.
After the breakfast, we had packed our stuff to be ready to
leave, some of us leaving today, some that will leave tomorrow.
The goodbyes I believed to be the tuffest part. It was so hard
to day goodbye to all the amazing people I had met from all over
the world, especially the ones who I may not see again n the
future.
The Youth World Cup was an event in my life that I will never
forget. There were so many memories and friendships made there
in the week I only had to get to know them.
I thank everyone so much for making the Youth World Cup possible
for all of the youths, it is definitely a life changing
experience and will never be forgotten. |
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