Made ya LOOK!!!

LOL!!! You sure did!!!

Well first off congratulations to Noble Express. It has certainly been a long time coming to have him in the National ring. Great to see that he took home the roses.

Congrats to the team of people that made it possible for him to be there for the win. Joel is such a great trainer, the Shea's are great promoters for this wonderful horse and the owners have given the horse the time he needed before bringing him to the Nationals

That Park class must have been a sight to behold. I can't imagine 18 trotting full out in one ring! It must have been electrifying!

After looking at judges cards for this class, my only answer for how could every card be so different is that there must have been alot of really good performances with some of the big time horses that showed this year and with 18 park trotters, it would have been crazy trying to watch all corners of the ring.

A great big word of appreciation to all of those who bumped their horses up from the English Class to have them show in the Park class where these big trotting athlete's should be.

Huge congrats to Noble Express! yahoo
Judge Picks
HARVEY PETTY J BROWN
MD AQUARIUS AEQUUS MANDALAY BAY
IXL NOBLE EXPRESS A TEMPTATION IXL NOBLE EXPRESS
AFIRES VISION MD AQUARIUS A TEMPTATION
MANDALAY BAY IXL NOBLE EXPRESS AFIRES VISION
AEQUUS MANDALAY BAY SIR MAGNI FEKE
YOUNG MC BALLIENCE V ALL STAAR
BALLIENCE V AFIRES VISION YOUNG MC
A TEMPTATION ALL STAAR AEQUUS
SIR MAGNI FEKE SIR MAGNI FEKE VJ EUROPEAN GOLD
CODE REDDD YOUNG MC APOLLOS SPITFIRE
ALL STAAR APOLLOS SPITFIRE RB MAGIC CHANT

Whoohoo ..that's great . I didn't know Noble Express won

Four of mine are related to him through his grandmother RL Rah Fire . Both of RL Rah Fires grandfathers were National winning park horses *Bask and Rahalima ( USTT Park 1970 & 1971 ) .

I was there for the ammy purebred park and it was exciting to watch. I wouldn't want one for myself, but I can see why a person would want to try. It would have been fun to see A Temptation as a friend has bred to him. How did he look?

Because it's like strapping a rocket to your bum and blasting around! I've ridden one saddleseat horse...he wasn't even a Park horse, and that was so much fun....Felt like we were sailing at the power trot!

Up until then I didn't understand the addiction either, but what a rush!

ROFLMAO! Robin, that's the best description of it I've seen yet I've never ridden one but it seems to me that that would be what it's like.

Thanks for posting the judge's cards Heidi! What a class that must have been! I'm glad that Park is getting more entries, now it would be nice if there were more mares being shown in it but I guess if you have a mare that can do Park, she's more valuable as a broodmare. It would just be nice if one day there were enough Park-capable horses to have some mares out there too. I was looking at Red Tape's show record awhile back and one of the National classes he won had 48 entries! WOW!

Congrats to IXL Noble Express on his win!