An Evening of Entertainment

Willy Arts organizes the evening entertainment and brought back favorite exhibitors from over the years.

The Showtime Vaulters from DG Bar Ranch demonstrated vaulting from the beginning with teaching the moves at the walk, through the movements of their competition team at the canter. Megan Benjamin, the individual vaulting gold medalist at the World Equestrian Games last August, was a guest performer with the Showtime team.

And a highlight was Willy Arts returning on the vaulting horse to demonstrate his vaulting style. Willy had vaulted when he was a student in Holland. He demonstrated the flag and also the stand. Not bad for 25+ years between vaulting sessions.

Lynn Lloyd and the Red Rock Hounds of Reno, Nevada joined us again, as they have many times over the years. At their last visit the hounds were overwhelmed by the crowd noise and fled the ring.

This time the crowd held their applause until the end and the hounds loyally followed huntsman Lloyd around the ring to the sound of the hunting horn.

Local barrel racers demonstrated their speed and handiness around the barrels, set inside the boundaries of a dressage ring.

Tamara (De Groot) Majors (daughter of Tony and Betty) and Ashlyn De Groot (granddaughter) performed an FEI pas de deux. California dressage trainers Nicole Perry on Contester, Jan Ebeling on Waterford, Jo Moran on Minna, and Steffen Peters on Lombardi II performed musical freestyles for the appreciative crowd.