Dog and Pony odds and ends

I know it wasn't obvious from my reporting, but Karin Hullatti's Dog and Pony Show actually have conventional divisions, including Original Finish Mini Halter, Custom Mini Halter and Resin Mini Halter.

I don't collect minis, and I don't really show halter anymore. 

So basically, that side of the show hall was dead to me. Sorry.

I did participate, briefly, in the Dog Division.

This was held concurrently with the Performance and Fun divisions and after just one class, I realized I could not keep up. From what I could tell, it seemed well supported and very competitive.

After the Dog Division wrapped up, that table moved on to Medallions. 

Olive medallion not owned by me

Since Performance and Fun were also done, I was able to participate with the handful of painted medallions I'd brought. These included four chestnut Olives, one green Olive and Goodnight Moon. To my great delight, Jenn's Olive, Kristen's Olive and Goodnight Moon all won their classes. Here they are on the callbacks table.

The rest of the callbacks.

Goodnight Moon won the Reserve Championship! Hurray!

This concludes - I think - coverage of the Dog and Pony Show. Thank you, Karin Hullatti, for hosting and judging. I had a great time!

Performancing

Later this week, Alexey and Tori will celebrate their tenth anniversary.

That's ten years of marriage, ten years of living in the United States and, also, ten years of model horse shows.

There have been so many model horse shows.

And yet, Alexey almost never shows. He's usually there to help, support and socialize.

In fact, I can only remember one time - Candyland 2024 - that he actually put his own horses on the table.

So I was really surprised when Alexey told me he was going to set-up some entries for the Ridiculous Performance division at Karin Hullatti's Dog and Pony Show. To be honest, I didn't really believe him. But then, on Saturday, when I was doing everything but prepare for the show, Alexey started sending me videos.

He was really going for it!

On Sunday, Alexey arrived at the show hall with a whole bunch of really good performance and fun class entries.

I lent him a little bit of tack,

one Halloween costume...

and one doll, but the ideas for the entries and the execution was all Alexey.

Here's his entry for Where's Timmy?

He's in the chicken coop, and those hens want him out.

And who is Timmy?

This little Miniverse Chihuahua, of course!

Alexey's Donkey Hotee entry was Overall Reserve Champion of the Ridiculous Performance Division...

and his Is it Cake? set-up was the Overall Champion of the Fun Division.

He made all these cakes himself.

Amazing!

It was so fun watching Alexey throw down in the performance ring...

With a little help from Tori, of course!

Dog and Pony fun

Most live model horse shows have a few fun classes. Karin Hullatti's Dog and Pony Show had an entire Fun Division.

The class list for this divsion was highly interpretative and had elements of both halter and performance. Of course, I leaned the performance aspects. This was clear right from the start when I put Big Dog, Winslow and a whole bunch of small scale ice chests on the table for the Coolest Horse in Your Collection class.

This placed third behind some legitimately cool models.

I broke out my human/horse hybrid gang for class two, You Can't Show Centaurs at NAN. I've shown different variations of this entry multiple times, and it's always one of my favorites. I was delighted when it claimed the blue ribbon.

Art in Progress was next. I fielded two entries. The first was my still unfinished NaReViMo horse, Charmarie.

The second was a performance style scene with Bob Ross, Big Dog and Winslow. I'm not sure how this did. I thought it was cute, but there were some extremely nice pieces of unfinished art on the table. Get to work, people. Those things need to be finished!

Class four was Is it Cake?

This was an insanely competitive class.

I had three good entries.

But Nancy's...

and Alexey's entries were even better.

I'll share more pictures of this one in a future post. It was fantastic!

Cake was followed by Abomineighshuns. I certainly own a few, but I didn't bring them to the show.

After that, it was the essay class AKA What's in a Name? Big Dog placed third.

Class seven was Prehistoric. I meant to show my not-quite-finished, four toed horse ancestor, but I accidentally left her at home. Then I also forgot to take even a single picture of all the dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. Sometimes it's like that.

On a similar note, I had not planned to show anything in Birds, but after forgetting to put Pecans' on the table with my Kim Jacobs' birdwatching pack set for Donkey Hotee, I decided to show the dodo here. Second place!

Cats was next. I showed a couple, didn't take pictures and have no memory of how they placed. This one belongs to Fabian.

Class ten was HSO. The acronym HSO is generally a pejorative, but this class list specifically defined it as any non-model horse shaped object. I entered my very loved needle felted Shetland pony by Tomás Varela, and she placed first. Good girl, Poppy!

The canine equivalent class, DSO, was next. I won this one as well with Fat Piper. Her friend, Fat Tang, placed second.

On to Oh Deer, i.e. the Alexey class.

Not quite all of the entries belonged to Alexey, but so many of them did.

Here's one of the non-Alexey deer.

I love the eyelashes!

More deer!

The division closed with a Rodents and Lagomorphs class. This one was dominated by capybaras, which is how it should be.

Callbacks!

Reserve Champion of the Fun division went to Leslie's giant capybara.

Alexey's Persia claimed and all her cakes won the top prize.

But not really.

You may have noticed the green tickets in some of these photos. Every ribbon won in the Fun Division equaled one entry in a drawing for these Weird Dogs.

Although I did not win the Overall Fun Division Champ or Reserve, I did win the Weird Dogs. How lucky - and Fun - is that?!