Cold Hill Farm: Nashville to Kentucky

IHSA Nationals unfortunately were the same weekend as Rolex.

So I went to Nationals and the parents went to Rolex.

We left school Tuesday afternoon but competition didn't start until Thursday...

Wednesday was a schooling day, and like every other day, the MHC crew was in the arena before anyone else...

So when we weren't watching schooling we napped...

Most of the team classes were on Thursday- so after flying to Lexington, KY, Wed, my parents drove the rest of the way to watch me ride!

And even though the general consensus was that I rode awesome, and before first place was announced Bob Cacchione point and winked at me, I walked away ribbon-less. Like a few other riders on the team we were not what the judges were looking for.

As the weekend went on the ribbons trickled in: Cap'n Petts placed 3rd in Open Flat, Kim took 5th in Walk-Trot-Canter, Bridget was 6th in Walk-Trot and Cassie was 4th in Open Fences... Landing us in sixth place overall.

We did have a few riders qualify individually and they did awesome! Tripp finished 8th in Intermediate Flat, Lorin was 5th in Alumni Fences, and Emme WON Walk-Trot-Canter!!!

We had a ton of fun at the show, but when competition was over Saturday we had other plans!
We were after all in Music City!

On our way back to the hotel to get ready for some line dancing we drove past the area of town that was hit worst by the recent tornado.