Castle Hill Show - Alpacas

This was the big day for our crop of young alpacas. Sopresa and Barossa (our babies from last year) had their show debut. Hugh was a master at halter training them....I was absolutely useless, the alpacas finally let me in a little secret they they are not little horses and the same rules don't apply! Hugh was all decked out in his snazzy white lab coat and was a real showman in the ring. He walked - out with a 2nd place for Sopresa (boy) this is a great achievement!! and Barossa our little girl didn't get anything, unfortunately "cute" doesn't get ribbons in the alpaca world. I was the official photographer for Team Hideaway Too and failed miserably...I thought I had lots of great shots but this is the only one that turned out. Showing alpacas is a lot easier than horses, no cleaning tack, no baths, no grooming, no braiding, no lunging them down...just a bucket of water and a "biscuit" of hay and your all set. Also, trailer loading is much easier too, if they don't want to get in you can simply pick them up, but these guys loaded like champs.

Hugh is in the distant background in the above photo. He is looking down at the ground next to the woman with the blonde ponytail. He's in the ring with Barosa.

Donnie & Laurella showed in the horse division. Donnie was Reserve Champion Part-Bred Connemara and Laurella got a 2nd for Connemara Pure Bred Mares. The horse that beat her is this amazing text book classic Connemara - a real beauty. Donnie and Laurella were a real pain in the @#$%! at this show though...I haven't taken them out together before and the "seperation anxiety" when I took one away from the other was really a bit much!