Livin on an Island!

Thursday one of the wires supporting our ferry broke. That resulted in a lame float, taking 10 times the normal time to cross the strait. After holdups and failed crossings the ferry was out of comishion for a couple of hours and that led to big ol chunks of ice filling the channel. I mean in the sizes of footballfields! Friday morning I was on my way over. Half way across we run into one of those giant sheets of ice and that was that. Ferry had to backtrack and all fares was cancelled! Had a horse in the trailer but just had to turn around and head home again! They used all of friday evening blasting those suckers with dynamite. Now everything is up and running again thankfully.

I owe you all some results by the way. Kinda schitsofrenic trying to follow the PCCHA Derby and Cattlemens at the same time on the webcast. Most of the time they where overlapping so you could watch one while they settled the herd in the other. Anyway, here they are:


Matt Gaines & Reycy Moon (Cats Moonshine x Twice As Reycy, by Dual Rey) won the Cattlemens Derby marking a 224. She´d previously placed 4th in Abilene and third in Arbuckle but this was Reycy Moons first championchip.
Cattlemens Derby

The Cattlemans 5/6 yo Classic was won by RL Chartier aboard A Little Bossy (CD Lights-Pistol Smart, by Smart Little Lena) scoring a 222. It was a WILD outing where several of the favourites lost possition on cows or simply just lost them. Horses like Third Cutting, Don´t Look Twice, Boon Too Suen & Shes Twice As Smooth who each are well over $100.000 in earnings, had a really tough time. A Little Bossy stuck in there though and Chartier just aimed for a clean run without any mistakes and it paid off.

Cattlemens Classic

In the PCCHA Derby Tim Smith and protegé Morgan Cromer split honours with My Lizzy Babe (Lizzys Gotta Player-Moms Stylish Babe) and Oak Ill Be Peppy (Skeets Ill Be Peppy-Oak Ill Be) scoring 220 to share the win.
PCCHA Derby