I went to the American Paint Horses Association's 2006 World show with some friends.  Dana Boudreaux rode with me and we met up with a bunch of our "hen" friends from "Hen House" and had a great time.  The company was great and the horses were stunning.

Here’s a 3 yr old gelding named Scoot To Win.  He is sired by of the stallion Barlink Macho Too that is owned by one of the Hens.  We saw him showed in 2003 when my kids and I were at the World Show last.  I've added his win picture taken by KC Montgomery here because my picture of this fine horse just doesn't do him justice.

Here are a few pictures of some hens.  This is, left to right, Dana Boudreaux from Louisiana, Kim Lewis from California, Gerry Dinning of Idaho, me, and then Debbie Howie from Michigan.  Debbie’s weanling gelding took fourth in amateur with her and fourth in open (tied for third, but lost the tie breaker).  Gerry and Walt’s stallion, Hes A Smooth Mister, “Colby” took fourth in amateur aged stallions with Walt showing him…..and he feels he didn’t get him shown.  This picture was taken by our imaginary friend, Walt Dinning.  (Walt calls us Gerry's imaginary friends because all us ladies met on the internet.)

Gerry, Walt, me and Dana taken by Kim Lewis.

One of the hens, Lynette Whittaker owns this mare, Shes One Cool Heiress, here, being shown by Mike McMillian. They went on to grab the Reserve World Champion title in the class.  I think it was 2 year old mares.

This filly didn't place in Solid Paint-Bred Yearling Mares, but dang if that's not the prettiest head possible!

Here's a picture of Lynette playing with a puppy that belongs to a lady who was sitting near us.

Here's your World Champion solid paint bred weanling filly. She was coal black and beautiful.

This is Jim with his daughter Laurie and he and Michelle's two little boys, Dylan and Tyler.  Laurie is 17, Dylan 3 and Tyler 18 months.

Here's the World Champion Broodmare, Dominate Deluxe.  I found her a little heavy, as in fat, but she was beautiful.  This guy is named Matt Woodson and he’s an up and coming trainer from Ohio, I think.  He does an excellent job of getting the horses shown.

This is the same mare that he was showing.  She and some other mare tied in placings and it was up to a tie breaker judge.  This is when he knew they had the World Championship title.  He only knew when the other horses’ name was called as Reserve World Champion.  He got a little emotional and I thought it was great.  You could tell it really meant something to him.

The same thing happened in the Pleasure Driving class.  When they announced the Reserve World Champion our World Champion realized she had it and just burst out crying.  Of course, being a soft-hearted person, I started with the tears, too, which rolled on down the line of hens.  Ms. Gerry, Ms. Dana, Ms. Kim, etc. were all crying with me.  I stopped, though, when Ms. Gerry told me she was going to poke me in the eye if I didn’t stop.  She’s too funny!

I don't know who they were or anything about the gelding, but when they went up to the rail all the kids in this one family ran to the rail to pet their boy....who loved the attention. I'm willing to bet he gets a LOT of attention. I don't think he did great in the class, but he's worth his weight in gold! (Sorry, the picture is blurry. I thought you'd still enjoy seeing it.)