I had meant to put this post up much earlier today, but it’s all “video, video, video” (Can you name the movie?) … and videos take a long time to upload!!

So without further ado, here are a few clips from yesterday evening at the CAA Carriage Classic.

First, Sterling Graburn’s victory lap after winning the Multiple Horse / Pony Fault-and-Out Obstacle class with his team of Hackney Ponies:

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Next on the schedule in yesterday evening’s session was the Coaching – Best Team class. In the first video, you can hear the announcer (Guy Brown) explaining some of the history of Marilyn Macfarlane’s yellow and black coach (although, sadly, the sound quality seems to have deteriorated quite a bit in the transition from my video camera to my computer to YouTube … sorry about that). In the second video clip, Marilyn is driving a figure-eight.

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Next, in the Park Division: Performance class, Tom Burgess (who won the class and the Park Division Championship) and then Jacqueline Ohrstrom, with her pair of Hackney Ponies put to an antique wicker George IV Phaeton:

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Then seven dogs invaded the arena for the Carriage Dogs class. Here are few, followed by the victory lap by the winner, Lucy Fur. If you look closely, you can see her ears flapping.

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The final class of the evening, with four very creative entries, was the Costume class. The “zebra” pulling the circus wagon (accompanied by an acrobat, a lion tamer, and a fortune teller) was awarded second place, and the “safari tours” entry, pulled by the “giraffe,” won the class.

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