Alana and River City Live show report!

 Attention, Stablemates Club members! The second release in this year's club, Alana, is available for purchase! 

What a beauty! I can't wait to add her to my collection. 

In other news, I attended the River City Live model horse show in Indiana last Saturday, and here's how I did! 

The show awarded mugs and Stanley cups instead of rosettes, so just imagine that that mug is a rosette. Huzzah! This was probably my most successful show so far. Here's one of my happiest moments: 

I've been doggedly bringing my Via Lattea to almost every show I've attended for the last year, and prior to Saturday she'd placed anywhere from third to sixth almost every time, but never better than third. I thought about changing her name to Old Reliable because she usually was at least in the ribbons. But on Saturday she got second in her class! Huzzah! 

Other highlights:

• I've been trying to put a little more thought into my breed assignments, because my collection of green NAN cards is/was sorely lacking, and one of the fruits of that labor was my glossy Namid winning her class as a Murgese! Okay, I'll admit Cosimo is the only reason I know the Murgese breed exists, but I'll take it. 
• I almost didn't bring my new Mallorca, but stuck him in his box and took him along and he not only won his class (for collectibility), but got reserve champion for the Spanish/Gaited section! 
• My Churchill won his class as a Norwegian Dole, which has happened before, but this time he got reserve champion in the section and got his name (Ricky Spanish) announced out loud. The judge recognized the reference and whispered it, which was pretty great. 
• I entered my no-stand Fight Song (I refuse to type out that entire name) as a Mustang and he also won his division! This was totally unexpected. 

All in all, it was a pretty great show, other than my Stablemate show string almost completely flopping (again). Starting to think about giving up on showing them as they don't seem to do very well most of the time. Back to the drawing board, I guess! My next show will be Bluegrass Live on May 10, so I have a lot of planning to do!