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The only time I hate owning a gray horse is when I'm trying to get said pretty much completely white horse spotless before a show.  Oy.  Her stains are extra stubborn this year (though it probably didn't help I had to speed bathe before a thunderstorm rolled in).  And it's always nice walking into the stable at 4am and seeing she slept in poo, on both sides and got new stains all over.

Pony I love you but at 4am when I have to do extra scrubbing, it's kind of hard to like you.

So I was kind of(really) embarrassed that my pony still had stains at the show, especially when the other greys looked spotless...  Seriously am I the only one with a horse that every single "trick" I've heard of to get them white doesn't work?  I'll figure it out yet!  I finally managed it by the end of our hunter season.  I had managed it in college, though the day before inspections she always got new stains.  I'm going to try bathing her every day the week before the next show.

She loaded like a pro, even after a year off from trailering, yay!  She was great in the warm up, minus a mini spook at a horse eating bush we'd already walked past twenty times.  A bit looky in the show ring, which made me looky and tense, but our first test went great!  Got a 60%!  (Which for non horsey people is a good thing!  Especially at a first time silver show!)

Unfortunately we got buzzed out of our second test cause she came up sore.  With the trailering, and me warming up probably a bit too long she got tired, the footing was deeper than she's used to.  So hopefully with some pampering she'll bounce right back and we'll figure out how to keep her strong through the next one!