As part of our sponsors Contest series, Point Two generously offered two air jackets to the lucky winners. The theme of this contest was “Spreading holiday cheer all over your horse.” And, as always, EN readers did not disappoint! The chinchillas selected their favorite 20 entries, split into two groups. Please vote on the first 10 photos today, and the second group will be posted soon. The top two photos from each round will move on to a “Final Four” round of voting to determine the two winners. As with the Dubarry contest, please select your favorite two photos in the poll below. Voting ends Tuesday at midnight (that’s 12:00AM EST 12/20).
1. Emily
This is a picture of my horse Mick and I. Since I’m injury prone, a Point Two vest would be extremely helpful. For example, when I was nine, I fell off my pony and broke my elbow. Then, a year and a half ago, I went into the field to get my pony and was kicked by another horse. The kick ruptured my spleen, and I had to get Life-Flighted to receive surgery. And then, last January I broke my wrist sledding. Unfortunately, I broke my wrist the day before my mom surprised me with Mick. Mick is the best horse ever, which showed when he was patient and happy while we tried to get the perfect picture for over an hour. In this picture, the elves made the mistake of riding without a helmet or a Point Two Vest!
2. Alice
This is a picture of me as a kid on my little pony Houdini. Houdini was an 11.2 hand shetland/welsh pony who had a knack for escaping from paddocks, bucking me off, and being naughty. For a halloween show one year I was a Christmas tree, and Houdini was a present. Complete in Houdini’s mane was a large tag that said, “To Alice, From Santa”. Those were the days!
3. Amelia
The attached picture is of my horse Emmy, dressed as a menorah…
also known as the Emmenorah. Emmy is a 3 year old thoroughbred cross. Her sire was an OTTB that I evented up to novice, her dam was of unknown breeding, probably part
arab, maybe some saddlebred or morgan. I acquired her in April of
this year, and she has been occasionally difficult but mostly
fantastic. She has a great brain and personality, and has many fans
around the barn. She particularly enjoys playing with small animals-
chasing cats in the field, nibbling dogs, and running through flocks
of geese to scatter them, etc. I find her very trustworthy, even
though she’s only 3, but even so, we really should have a Point Two
before going eventing!
4. Anni
Here is Marbles, our peppermint candy cane colored Christmas Pony and Santa Saucie, our barn watch dog. Marbles is my leadline lesson, who teaches 4-5 young girls every week. She also goes jogging through the harbor on Sunday mornings, comes for a visit to the christmas tree in the office and keeps my upper level company at the horseshows. She loves the jingle bells around her neck and didn’t try to eat the red nose! Marbles will do anything for peppermints so we figured the peppermint coloring was perfect for her. We love playing with Marbles and she loves burying her head in the tree and presents, looking for licorice and peppermints. Abigail, one of my students, is holding Miss Marbles for our photo shoot!
5. Bridgette
Here is my entry into the Point Two Air Vest Contest. This is a picture of my horse Fort Conquest, or more commonly known as Beans, he is a 12 year old, OTTB who means the world to me. I met Beans while riding at the UMass riding farm, he was on loan for a semester and was not doing very well being ridden by many different people. I contacted his owner and asked if I could have the ride on him over the summer and our partnership continued to grow daily. His owner kindly gave me the ride on him and I have now had him for 8 months. We started competing together this May at Novice and have moved all the way up to Prelim by Sept. I am currently a sophomore at UMass University, and am the captain of the Dressage Team. We are hoping to go to Aiken this year in hopes of qualifying for a one star and competing intermediate. It would be great to win an airvest to have more peace of mind at prelim and above. The poster on his stall is hard to see but it reads,
Dear Santa
All I want for Christmas is…
A Point Two Airvest
A Point Two Airvest
A Point Two Airvest
6. Jessica
Hello Eventing Nation & Point Two! I’m Jessica and this is Zeke, a 5 year old WB. I give Zeke all the credit for this Christmas Extravaganza picture for putting up with me wrapping him up with 3 rolls of wrapping paper in the crazy wind for a couple hours, so as you can imagine in his brain “big,scary,red things that definietly isn’t hay flopping around that might eat me” , so kudos to baby Zeke. Zeke was a gift to me from my brother, Travis, last fall (hense Zeke’s show name “Brother’s Check”). Zeke and I event, compete in jumpers, and foxhunt. I got Zeke on October 1, 2010 and he really has given me an amazing year, I’m so blessed to have such a willing,honest horse. Thanks for having such a fun contest EN & Point Two. Go Eventing, Go EN, & Go Point Two. Merry Chrismas!
7. Lauren
Please find attached a Christmas photo card I made of my 14.2hh Welsh Cob x TB gelding, Henry ( aka Tazen Jack Be Nimble). Henry is rising 7 & has been eventing at Introductory level (in Australia) this season, next year he’ll step up a level to Preliminary (like Novice over there). Henry is a real personality & enjoys hanging out with people. Like all ponies, he is very food focussed. 🙂
Merry Christmas!
8. Mandy
Our quarter horse stallion – The Innovator – getting into the christmas
spirit.
Vinnie is a 4yo AmQHA and AQHA stallion, since we have bought him, he
has certainly fitted right in at our madhouse!
9. Sarah
Elf #1: Wooooaaaa!!! We’re going to crash Santa’s sleigh!!!
Elf # 2: It’s okay! Prancer is wearing her point two!!!
Hello Eventing Nation! Happy Holidays from Sara Fogelberg, Sarah Kate Pierro and Emma! This is Sara’s 10 yr OTTB, Emma, who very graciously put up with our holiday shenanigans, and stood while we wrapped her tail, mane, legs and halter in tinsel, and equipped her with an air jacket of her own. Santa’s sleigh can be a little temperamental! Emma is a novice level eventer who just moved to Minnesota from Kentucky to live with Sara. A currently horseless Sarah Kate will be graduating from college in the spring and will begin the hunt for her next eventing partner. Best of wishes this holiday season! Don’t forget your air vests at home, you never know when you will find yourself facing an unanticipated crash landing!!
10. Stephanie
Last week my horse, Zymon, was found in his turn out (a 5 acre grass paddock with lovely wood fencing, double fenced) grazing with his turn out buddy. When I got close I noticed blood, a lot of it and the fact he wasn’t resting his hind leg the way I thought he was, he was packing it. A horse with an unusual high threshold for pain (he does hurt himself often) wouldn’t even hop to the gate. After much IV pain meds I got him to the Equine Hospital. A good friend and surgeon met me and proceeded in finding a broken patella and removing the top part of the bone with Zymon standing by watching!
A group of my friends, clients and hospital onlookers took up the game CSI. Our best guess with the few marks and injury are that Zymon, after being worked on a quiet sunny day, decided to jump out of turn out and visit the horse in the next paddock down. He then jumped back in to his turn out and in his arrogance, didn’t analyze the height of the wooden posts and wallah, broken patella, inside his paddock.
So, there is the foreshadowing from the text I received from my helper the next day:
“There is a photo contest on EN, and Zy has the dreamiest face and nothing to do.”
I replied, “your right! Photo shoot in surgery room, Sounds like a winner” (with plenty of sarcasm, I was a little bummed).
Her reply was
“he could be the naughty nurse?!”
Remember to choose TWO favorite photos in the poll. Voting ends 12:00AM EST Wednesday 12/21/11. Thanks for voting and Go Eventing!
