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June 20, 2013

our third annual festival

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This year’s CAA Carriage Festival — a celebration of traditional turnouts, carriage driving, antique carriages and cars, and more — begins one week from tomorrow. Also tomorrow, I’ll be getting the electronic files for the show program ready to ship off to the printer. And so I’ve been going through the photos I took at last year’s Festival to look for images to illustrate the program, and at least one to feature on the cover.

If you’ve been following the blog for a while, or if you’ve scrolled back through (a lot of) previous posts, you may remember some of these, but I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at last year’s event.

If you’ll be in the Lexington area next weekend, join us at the Kentucky Horse Park for our third annual CAA Carriage Festival! (Click here for the full schedule.)

July 8, 2012

a (slightly) newer kind of horsepower

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For our final look back at last weekend’s Carriage Festival, here are some of the beauties arriving for, and on display at, the antique car show that was part of the Festival:

this car was built in 1916

this car was built in 1909, and I think it will have its own blog post soon

And then there was this stunning 1932 Auburn boat-tail speedster:

The car show officially lasted until 3 o’clock, but a few of the car owners seem to have made a day of it: showing off their cars and watching the carriage driving. As I was arriving back at the arena for the evening session, just before 7 o’clock, an entire family arrived in the red 1916 carriage-look-alike car. They parked, put a fabric car cover over it, and then went in to watch the horses and ponies. As I was leaving the arena after the end of the show, I saw this old-fashioned scene:

July 8, 2012

a drive in the park … really

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First off, I have to apologize for promising more from the Carriage Festival and then not posting anything at all yesterday (as I wasn’t near the Internet). So I’m now (early on Sunday) posting what should have been yesterday’s post. The post I had scheduled for today will go up later tonight. Enjoy all the photos coming your way!

Last Sunday at the Carriage Festival was our “presentation pleasure drive,” where most of the Festival participants went for a shady three-mile drive along the back of the Kentucky Horse Park and onto a neighboring farm, and back again.

July 6, 2012

a formal evening in the show ring

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Here’s our last look at the ring classes from last weekend’s CAA Carriage Festival.

Karen Waldron’s pair emerged victorious (again) in the Performance class

Misdee Wrigley Miller drove a pair in the first class of the evening …

… and then drove her team into the arena for the evening’s final class

Mark Schofield drove the Park Drag (put to a team of Hackneys) of Glenn A. Werry, Jr.; here, they’re making final adjustments before entering the arena

Misdee Miller and her team won this final class at the Carriage Festival, the HorseShow.com Coaching Division: Best Team class

another view of Glenn Werry’s team of Hackneys, being driven by Mark Schofield

… and yet another view; this turnout won the Tom Ryder Award for the most elegant turnout at the Festival

Several commenters, here on the blog and on the CAA’s Facebook page (where I’m also posting a few photos), have wondered why several of the ladies aren’t wearing hats in some of these Festival photos. Have you been wondering about this, too?

This happened only in the evening sessions and is, in fact, allowed. According to Appendix A (which discusses turnout and appointments) of the American Driving Society’s rules for pleasure-driving competitions: in Formal or Park classes … “If the class is in the evening, ladies may opt not to wear a hat and may wear a formal gown.” This hats-optional-in-the-evening rule applies to ladies driving Park Drags, Road Coaches, Breaks, Mail Phaetons, Stanhope Phaetons, Demi-mail Phaetons, Spider Phaetons, Stanhope or Park Gate Gigs, etc.

July 5, 2012

who doesn’t love a cute dog?

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One of the non-traditional (but undeniably adorable) classes at the Carriage Festival was Saturday evening’s Carriage Dogs class. This year’s installment of the class had, sadly, only two entries. But what they lacked in numbers, they made up for in sheer cuteness, wouldn’t you agree?