Halloween with the Hollings at Chattahoochee Hills: (from left to right) Lexi Scovil (as Hannah Montana), Jenn Holling, Caiden Holling (as Chewbacca), Jon Holling (as an eventing rider/coach from Ocala, Florida with a strange penchant for combining shiny belt buckles and sneakers), Megan Johnston (also as Hannah Montana), and Riley Carter (as Secretariat).
Of course, I should say happy Halloween Eventing Nation! Today we get to dress up in costumes and eat as much candy as is humanly possible in celebration of a holiday that was long forgotten by most Halloween participants. There is perhaps no holiday more US American than that, although Halloween is also celebrated in Ireland and the UK. And now you know the rest of the story.
I am contractually obligated to include one link in every post, so here’s Rebecca Howard’s blog from Chattahoochee.
Finally, check out show jumping in costume:
That video is of Rodrigo Pesoa show jumping at the Washington International Horse Show this weekend, as filmed by the amazing Buzzterbrown. Buzzterbrown explains that this round was in the Gambler’s Choice Class: “In this class you jump as many fences as you can in any order within the time limit. Each jump is assigned a number from 20 to 170 (more or less on the degree of difficulty) and you are awarded those points for each one you clear. Knocking down a rail means you don’t get any points for that fence, but no penalty either. At the end, you have the option to do a high skinny vertical worth 200 points. But if you knock it down, 200 is deducted from your score.” As always, thanks for the brilliant videos Buzzterbrown. Go eventing.
