05/12/2026
It’s always good to be home, but it’s hard to leave a beautiful place like Paso Robles! We just love the Silicon Valley Horse Show with the hospitality, beautiful facility, great weather, and fun atmosphere! And…the $100 for every blue ribbon 💵! Putting on a horse show is a TON of work and we so appreciate all that Helen Roy and Lexie Saine put into this show each year!! Thank you doesn’t seem enough…it doesn’t go unnoticed!🙏
Thank you to the magazine reps for catching some of the fun moments as we exit the ring with smiles and pats for the horses!
We had a couple of first times with Savannah Franklin making her full suit debut on Baccarats Home Town Girl and winning both of her classes…a great start for this team:) Edward Harmon drove his new horse, RRVE Daredevilry for the first time and they won the jr exb/amateur pleasure driving qualifier and championship…so happy for this duo!! Vanessa Ybarra got back in the show ring with a win in the Open Park Saddle Championship on HTLDBlack Diamond after Gerry won the qualifier with him. Great to have Vanessa riding this fun horse!
Congratulations to Sharon Bender on a winning week with her 3 horses! Seems Fine loved the ring in Paso Robles and turned in a great class win to the blue ribbon in the Junior pleasure driving, Beautiful Crazy was the Open Pleasure Driving winner and Grand Champion and Crushin It and Sharon won the Ladies Classic Pleasure Driving and then went back into the $5000 Driving Championship and came out with the win!
The Harmons had a great week between their win early in the week with KMP Beautiful Mind and Gerry Rushton in the Open Park Harness (while Ed was still at home playing in and winning a golf tournament;), Edward’s two wins with his new horse, Hannah Harmon and Flintlock’s Envy coming out of the huge $5000 Hunter Pleasure class with the Reserve Championship and Hannah again leaving the ring with a tricolor, this time the championship, in the Classic Pleasure Saddle with PlayMor With Sparkles. Ed Harmon has taken on the challenge of driving a spicy park harness horse and come SO far from his drives last year and put in a competitive drive in a strong park harness championship that made us all proud!
Helena DeWoody had her best classes yet with the fun mare Good Trouble in the good classic pleasure division. This has been a fun team to watch improve each show and they’re having fun doing it!
Diane Kleinecke has Gerry preparing her Hidden Springs Lonestar for the Classic pleasure driving division for her and they had 2 good classes to be second and then reserve champions in the Open Breed Pleasure Driving.
Nathania Lie ALWAYS shows up and she did so again at this show with 2 strong rides on her Heir to the Empire and 2 game rides on BRMF Debonair Flair, including choosing to go back in the competitive $5000 class to enjoy the numbers and excitement! each show this girl rides in is a learning experience and she comes out better for it!
Standing Invitation was second in a nice jr park harness class and the got some riding time in while we were there so we can have him ready for his saddle debut this year!:)
While we were gone we had TWO foals born! One right after we left (we thought MAYBE she’d have it before but…nope) and one the morning we were coming home! A c**t and a filly, both healthy and happy to be in this world:) pics to come:)
