Nighthorse + Stock Show

Saturday was fun and scary at the same time. Diagramming went well, I walked 3-7 and P2 before the quiz. Then we got 17 diagrams and I had 3 corrections. So the ride was interesting. Stretch was in a class at 11 so I was a little late to my ride so I didn't get to do my exercises with Stretch. Warm ups were going great and I got him to do an amazing stop at a lope but then I'm not sure what happened. He either got super excited or spooked at something but he took off into the center. I tried to one rein stop but he fought against the bit. I narrowly avoided crashing into my teammates before he finally circled around. I was a little shaken up but not scared. Then we got to play catch up!!!! I finally got to let Stretch run! Not all the way because we would've left the other horses in the dust but the problem came at the end. I went to break and stretch didn't stop. I even started slowing down earlier but i still crashed through two fours. It was scary and I was so embarrassed.  Squirt's rider fell off but she was okay. the horses were SO SWEATY at the end. The steam coming off of them looked so cool. I didn't use my cool out blanket though because I had to race off to change for stock show. I had a teammate take Stretch and use a rental blanket on him. So I got to wear my dress reds for the first time!!!!!! It was so exciting and I felt so official. At stock show I sold programs at a podium which normally sells more but I was in a bad spot so I only sold 8 :/ the top seller sold 84. I'm hoping I'll do better next time. It was still fun and man do you get a lot of attention in the dress uniform.