Welcome to "My trip to the Morgan Grand National" page. Here you can come along on my journey to the Morgan Grand National with my horse DVF Heartlite. I hope to update this page daily while at the show if the RV campground has wireless internet!

You can watch and cheer me on via the live feed :

Record Number of Entries!
Entries have been processed, and there are 1252 horses from 45 states plus Canada, Austria and England entered--truly a WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW!

Its hard to imagine that the world show is already here. I spent all weekend packing and preparing Headlight for the show. On Friday I had to trailer to Delaware to have Headlight's feet done by an awesome Farrier. I started body clipping on Saturday night and finished on Sunday afternoon.

Headlight during his hot oil treatment:

Tonight Derek and I have a whole list of things to do. We have to drop off the trailer my cousin let me borrow to go to Delaware (thanks Ash :-) then we have to hitch our big trailer up and finish packing the final items. Then its off to clip Headlight's face and sand his feet. I did somehow get motivated to make a new jacket but the crystals I ordered havn't come in and if they don't arrive tonight then I'm out of luck for the show.

My dad took Sake to his house so my Mom can take care of him while we are gone and Kit is going with us.

We are picking up a horse in NC so our journey will start there!

Day 1: Tuesday Oct. 2

We left Maryland at around 2:00 pm and headed south to NC to pick up a two year old stallion a lady had paid me to transport. As always mapquest thought it would be "cute" to take us through the town and totally lost far away from the actual pick up location. The owner of the farm was kind enough to drive out and meet us in town and take us to his farm.

The farm was amazing and had scuplures of bronze morgans in decorated gardens. We got a hay bag made up for the two year old whose name was "Petie" and he loaded right up with no problems into the trailer next to Headlight. The trip to Oklahoma was to be made on a single road called I-40. This took us all the way from NC to Oklahoma City...who would have thought!?!

The horses seemed to travel pretty good and didn't have any problems drinking the water filled with cut up apples for flavor. Headlight was happy to have Bean and Bean was happy to have hay. Derek and my Dad took turns driving about 8 hours at a time. We brought a cooler that plugs into the car cig. lighter and is suppose to keep drinks cold. I don't know if I would call the drinks cold but it did seem to help keep them "cooler" then the normal air tempature.

Day 2: Wednesday Oct. 3

Driving through the night and into Wednesday we watched the sun come up in Memphis Tennessee. There were billboards with Elvis on them and plenty of traffic to slow us down for 30 mins or so. Dad and I just listened to the Beatles "help" cd and got through the traffic with one little lane change problem (in where Dad had to bring out his "DC" driver).

We arrive in Oklahoma and saw our exit for the boarding barn to drop off Petie. Luckly the farm was easy to find and the owners were at work so we just got him unloaded, gave him two full buckets of water in the stall, threw him so hay and hit the road for the Oklahoma State Fair grounds. We arrived at the grounds about 40 mins later and I jumped out of the truck to try and find the Broadmoor stalls.

The new main barns at Oklahoma were amazing. I was totally amazed and lost!

I quickly found our stalls with Dwayne and Mike and got our items unloaded.

Headlight seemed okay from the long trip and I wraped his legs for some support overnight.

First night at Grand Nationals: