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Waiting for the Ohio State Fair Draft Horse Show

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If you read my blog last week, you know that I’m very excited for the Ohio State Fair Draft Horse Show to start. I decided that maybe if I drove my Percheron draft horse mare, Julie, that it would not only help me prepare for my county fair at the end of August but it would also get me even more in the mood for the draft horse show at the state fair.

After harnessing the horse and dragging the cart around and hitching it to her, I have even more admiration for the folks that show draft horses. My cart and harness are really heavy.

Julie is an experienced show horse. She was shown in halter, cart and team classes up to the four-hitch at state fairs when she was younger by her former owners. She knows what she is doing, but I don’t.

We took a few laps around the arena and a few trips up and down the road. She will get her scotch bottom shoes on soon and she always becomes excited at horse shows so I’m sure we will both be ready by the fair.

Enjoy this video of our little practice session.

See you at the Ohio State Fair Draft Horse Show!

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Author: Kim Lemmon

Kim Lemmon has been a member of the Ohio’s Country Journal staff since 1999. She is currently the manager editor. This position requires her to position the advertisements and articles in each issue. She also is required to write a weekly blog and oversee the “Horse Sense” section of the paper.

Kim graduated from The Ohio State University in 1999 with a major in Agricultural Communications and a minor in Equine Science. Kim and her husband, Mark, reside in Morrow County.

The Lemmons currently own a Percheron mare and several mini horses. They raised pygmy goats for several years, and although they no longer own or breed goats they have several friends that still do so they manage to still stay fairly active in that portion of the livestock industry.

Kim has owned horses since she was a child and has been involved in many aspects of the horse industry since that time. From 2002 until 2010, Kim operated her own riding lesson program that included coaching 4-H members, adults and a college equestrian program. She is also a former 4-H horse judge.

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