Teton County Fair-Personal Narrative

The smell of horse clogged up my nose, The freshly cut grass of the area crunched under my boots. I was excited to compete in the teton county fair, I was very hyper. I love to compete with other people and I was determined to do the best that I ever could, even though I was trying a brand new horse that had never been to fair. I was about to step up into the spotlight with my horse, when the moment stopped in time. In this situation I used Relationships and Independence to help me make it through the fair that year.

July was a young horse and still very strong, and I was nervous about doing fair with him. I didn't trust my horse to let me ride him safely. My heart stopped when July refused to back up. I did not like the fact that I had let

When I got back into the competition I tried as hard as possible yet it wasn’t enough. This made me very mad, that I hadn’t been able to get a good ribbon. I knew that my crying had made everyone uncomfortable and that I should stop, but I couldn’t. I had the best time of my hole day right in the beginning, when I had courage that July was going to do great. until the time came when July didn’t back up. I had the feeling that I would get really good ribbons like last year, once I stared down at the 4th place ribbon in my hand from Showmanship. I completely lost it. I would have been a lot better if I had some good friends with me so that I could have some supportment. But the only girls that I knew were already hanging out, and I had to figure how to get in with them which is one thing that I’m not good at. When I started crying I was completely

I knew I was frustrated because he didn’t back up and meet my expectations, even though I was probably getting him confused because of all my mixed emotions. I knew that I had to rely on July to do it safely and efficiently so that I could do The Fair successfully but I lost that trust when he bucked, I knew it would take sometime to rebuild that trust. I should have known that something like this was coming because July is young and frisky and he was probably exited when the other horses were around him. When July did the things that I didn’t want him to do I knew that I had to use my relationships with him to rebuild the confidence, by remembering the good times that I had with him, like racing up and down the