Midwest Mini Mayhem Happens: Part Two

Continuing on from yesterday, here are some more photos from the show.

While I will always donate items for raffles, I don't buy tickets for personal reasons. If there ever was a raffle item to tempt me, this mini circus pony (in Appaloosa, my favorite breed!) was it!

Made and donated by Lindy Pinkham, I fell in love with it! Knowing my fondness for circus ponies, Shannon Rodgers told me that if her name was drawn for it, I could have it. Sadly, that didn't happen, but what a nice thing for her to do. 

In a typical model horse show, it is not unusual for three 8 foot tables to be completely full of Traditional models.

Imagine those models as mini size and those three tables still full - that's a lot of models to judge!

Classes were split at times but even then the competition was top notch. Having said that, my little show string represented Windsong Stables well.

Remember how fellow blogger Equiden (Betz Everitt) surprised me by making a custom Abby on my favorite Stablemate mold, the miniaturized Indian Pony?

That was a very large custom Appaloosa class and she NANed!

 Mighty Mouse and his even smaller counterpart

Atomic Mouse were there, too. Both minis got attention, but Atomic Mouse especially got a lot of double takes as people walked by.

I don't bring Rembrandt out too often any more (those fragile legs!) but I did for this show. A very early piece in the run, he has gorgeous shading, especially when compared with later pieces. 

Wakeyo also qualified for NAN - his first time on the show table.

The Animal classes were held at lunch and they were extremely popular, so much so that there were many requests to expand the class list for new year.

My mini Pepper in her Seeing Eye Dog harness won the Sporting Group Dog class.

I thought Fat Cat, a piece I gave Mountain Mama Jessica when she was a child, might place in the Cat class, but it was Misty, my mini mini HR Persian kitten who did that! (Aren't those tiny ribbons awesome?)

Shannon attempting to judge all those cute kitties.

The Other Pets classes was one class, but the variety of entries in it were good ideas for future classes. 

I'd hoped to be on the road by 4:00 as I had a four hour drive ahead of me and storms were coming in but I didn't leave until almost 5:00. And I did run into bad storms, one of which was more than a little scary, but I made it home safe and sound.

Well done, Kerri, Shannon, and Kerry! Count me in for this show next year.