Thank you to all of those who participated in our first ever Virtual Horse Show! There were 219 entries across the different classes. Thank you to the American Paint Horse Association E-Shows and Better Dressage Scores for serving as the hosting platforms for the shows. Detailed class results and scoresheets are available on the hosting platform sites where entries were submitted.

Looking for answers on how to read and interpret a judge's scoresheet? Check out this video from Extension Horses.

For a list of the 2020 NC State 4-H Virtual Class Winners, click here!

For a list of all the class placings, click here!

1st Place: Class Sponsors listed below

2nd Place: State Line Tack

3rd Place: Triple Crown Feed

Thank you to the following people who helped make the virtual show possible!

Anita McGugan; Chris & Jessica Rosenbaum;

Emerald Rose Farm; Emerald Rose Farm, Maggie Boreman; Eric Tedder; Jill Wilson; Mary Hunt; Southeast District 4-H Horse Council; Westward Farms, Taylor & Harrison Jenkins

Congratulations to all the youth that entered the 2020 NC 4-H Horse Program Artistic Expression & Creative Writing Contests. If you missed the live awards announcement, feel free to access it here!

More information, pictures of all the winners, and a breakdown of the scores, can be found here.

A huge thank you to 4-H Horse Program Volunteer Amber Nead for coordinating the judging of the artistic expression entries, and tabulating the scores.

Annabel Stokes

New Hanover Co.

Brooke Robinson

Cabarrus Co.

Stevie Brown

Rutherford Co.

Adeline Knepp

Forsyth Co.

Gracie Mourglea

Burke Co.

The 2020 NC 4-H Horse Program Communications Contests were held in connection with the 2020 Virtual 4-H Congress. Contestants participated in virtual district activity days to qualify for the state event. Congratulations to the following individuals that earned top honors in this year's event. The full breakdown can be found here.

8-10 Presentation Winner: Karleigh Meads

11-13 Public Speaking Winner: Brianna Osbourne

11-13 Presentations Winner: Emily Gobble

14-18 Public Speaking Winner: Cayden Lowe

14-18 Presentations Winner: Kyra Worth

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2020 NC 4-H Horse Program Scholarship!

Emily is the daughter of Chris Williams and Tom Worth. She is a current freshman at Johnston Community College and enrolled in the Nursing program. After graduating college, Emily hopes to enter the field of travel Nursing so that she can pursue her love of travel while also helping take care of patients.

During her time in 4-H, which spanned over 11 years, Emily had numerous accomplishments. She was the Southeast District Vice President, represented the North Carolina 4-H Program as our State President, and was inducted into the Honor Club.

Emily has also represented NC in various educational aspects, as she was a delegate and traveled to Quarter Horse Congress and Eastern Nationals in both 2017 for Presentations, 2018 for Public Speaking, and 2019 for Team Presentations. Throughout these years, she had tremendous successes while representing our state. Additionally, she is a two time, AIRE(Application, Interview, Resume, & Electronic) Winner.

She is a current freshman at Davidson College, majoring in Economics with a minor in Mathematics. Upon completing college, Jenna hopes to enter Law School and then enter Corporate practice or Business law.

Over the span of 8 years in 4-H, Jenna has been actively involved at both the local and state level. At the county level, she competed on the Gaston County Educational Team for 7 years. Additionally, she served as the President of the Blazing Saddles Club for 4 years and was on the Gaston County Council for 2 years.

At the State level, Jenna traveled extensively for the educational teams. In 2017, she was selected for the National Horse Judging Team, where she went on to place 2nd Individual Overall and Champion Team at Quarter Horse Congress. At Eastern Nationals, Jenna was 3rd Individual Overall and Reserve Champion Team. Then, she placed 11th Individual Overall and 4th Team Overall at the American Paint Horse Youth World Show.

Outside of 4-H, Jenna was also actively involved in Bandy's FFA Chapter. From 2018-2019, she served as the reporter. She also competed and placed various times at the State FFA convention. Jenna is also involved with Beta Club, the National Technical Honor Society, Pep Club, Student Government, is an active competition with USEF and AQHA, and graduated with Honors.

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Are you looking for new content of judging classes? This DVD has a wide variety of classes that were put together from the 2019 Southern Regionals Judging competition. This is a great tool if you're looking for something new to help improve your judging skills!

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Theme: Fallback Friday

This day was about reminiscing on our favorite Southern Regional moments, from the new friendships that are formed and the lasting memories.