Baby Palooza Event Series

06/10/2025

Great pictures from our June 7 event. Peter Watts did a great job capturing the essence of the day.

Poe Country,Baby Palooza,

06/04/2025

Participants play the part of Wild Bill or Jill navigating through the series of challenges based on the story. Each obstacle represents a key scene.
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COURSE MAP / OBSTACLE SEQUENCE:

1. Rope Your Horse
• Task: Use a lariat to rope your horse’s head and hips.
Build a small loop in the lariat and lay it over your horse’s head from the left to right and Houlihan style from the right to left. Also demonstrate you can lay the loop over the hindquarters without the horse being bothered.

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2. Saloon Shot Stop / Whiskey Widow Saloon
• Task: Walk to the Whiskey Widow Saloon and buy your horse a shot from the headless barkeep.
Take one of the molasses filled syringes and demonstrate how you would administer an oral paste like a dewormer or any type of oral medication.

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3. Tie ‘n’ Rob: The Bank Robbers’ Knot
• Task: Tie One of the fake bulls up to the panels using a quick-release knot (slip knot or bank robbers’ knot).
• Walk up to the green panels where the bulls are and take the rope lead and demonstrate how you would tie a quick release knot. Your horse should stand quietly while you perform this task.

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4. The Bank Heist (horse trailer bank)
• Task: Pick up a money bag from the “bank” and carry it to the Lookout obstacle.
• The horse needs to not show great concern while you step inside the trailer to retrieve the money bag. You do not need to load your horse just have them stand quietly outside while you get the bag.
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5. The Lookout / Stand on the Pedestal
• Task: Walk to the pedestal inside the circle. Have your horse stand on the pedestal to have a better vantage point. You can set your money bag down while performing this task. Once your horse stands and is settled back your horse off and out of the circle. Take your money bag back to the trailer and toss it inside.
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6.. Shootout with the Law
• Task: Walk to the Table where you will find a BB gun rifle. Pick up the gun and c**k it. Point in a safe direction at the blue barrel where the sheriff is hiding, aim and fire.
• Task: Pick up the bow and an arrow. Aim and fire at the deputy hiding in the other blue barrel.
• Make sure your horse is standing quietly and at a safe distance while you perform this task.
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6. Bandage & Disguise your horse
• Task: Stop at the two barrels station to apply a leg wrap, or vet wrap, or splint boot to any leg of choice.
• Task: Braid a small section of the horse’s mane or tail or forelock to demonstrate your fancy braiding skills. Your horse should stand while you attempt to braid.
• Task: Take the clippers and turn them on. You do not need to clip your horse, just demonstrate your horse’s level of confidence with clippers. Bare minimum is turn on turn off. If you can run them around your horse’s neck or head or legs even better.
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7. The Bridge Outta Town
• Task: Cross the overgrown abandoned bridge.
• You can walk with your horse or send him through the vines and over the bridge with you on the side. No penalty either way. Confidence and safety are key.
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8. Drag the Body / save your buddy crow eye Joe
• Task: Drag a dummy body a short distance using a rope. Show you can move the body either with your horse following it or more advanced dragging behind the horse around the marker and back to the original marker.
• Task: pick the body up and lay over your hoses back. Have your horse walk around the marker and back. If your horse isn’t ready for all this, just see if they could stand while you place the body over them.
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9. Road to Redemption
• Task: Walk your horse through the narrow zig zag path. The horse needs to look at where they are going and not knock the walls over. No snack attack either.
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10. The Gallows
• Task: Walk up to the hanging body (rope on the jump standard) take the rope off the standard and extend your arm one step and drop the body down about 2 -3 feet. Then raise the body back up and re-secure the rope over the standard.
• Your hose should stand quietly while the body drops. You may do this up to 3 times to help your horse be more confident with something fall in front of them.
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06/02/2025

Meet some of our props for the Next Baby Palooza Event This Saturday June 7. This will be the greatest bank robbery heist for you and your partner in crime, or will it? Shoot out with the law, dragging your buddy to safety, only to witness crime doesn’t pay in the old west. Test your skills with ropes, dragging, vet skills, braiding and disguising your horse, obstacles and knots… we are incorporating a plethora of skills for you. Two judges this event. One judge will be watching the horses ability and one judge will be watching your horsemanship skills.

05/16/2025

Some exciting news for our baby palooza #3 event!
We will have Peter Watts back as our photographer. This event will be taking some of the original tasks and adding a fun cowboy/cowgirl theme. Not sure what that means? Heres an example: walk into the saloon and give / buy your horse a molasses or apple sauce syringe shot.
Then head over to the trailer bank tie a bank robbers knot, “rob the bank” grab the money bag and make a quick getaway, get into a shoot out with the sheriffs and ditch your money on the run…

The whole course will have you winning or losing the Wild West. Hopefully you and your law braking partner don’t get caught by the law.

Come join us for a fun learning adventure!
We will have two judges at this event. We will be welcoming Long time horsemans David Barnard and Louise Barnard to help you along.

05/03/2025

Baby palooza results for May 3, 2025

Yearling division
1. Tilly handled by Katelyn Duda (174)

2-3 year old division
1. Cisco handled by Heather Young-Cover (169)
2. Pe**te handled by Debra English (145)
3. Shade handled by Tayla
cover (141)

4-5 year old division
1. Rocky handled by Missy Brehm (155.5)

6+ division
1. Bruce handled by Charlotte Banfield (170.5)
2. Tobey (Wanna Talk About Me) handled by Tiffany Hicks (169)
3. Jet handled by Vicki Eastridge (167)
4. Lace handled by Brenda Howell (166)

This was a tight division yet again! Only one point or so separated the placings. Whew that was a close class.

As always a huge thanks to our judge, Holly Linz
The show secretaries Dorothy Hampton and Danielle K.
Ring crew and gate steward Dorothy McMillen
And of course all the participants and their wonderful horses.
We had Alison Lang, a lovely photographer capturing the essence of the day. Her photos will be uploaded to the page when she has the ready. Stay tuned!

04/30/2025

Micah standing and accepting a leg wrap for the first time.

04/30/2025

Charlie has never had any wraps on him so practice makes perfect. I started in a comfortable environment for him and made it a non event. Next time i may wrap both fronts. Standing is a responsibility, dont wait until you have to do something only to find out something in the foundation is missing.