“The preparation, figuring out how they tick and how to get them ready, is what I enjoy the most [about showing 2-year-olds,]” Wade said. “When they don’t show well, it’s not fun at all. But when they show like ‘Cowboy’ just did, it’s just the coolest feeling; it makes it all worth it.”

3-year-old “Crunch” is by Scenic Impulse and out of Megan East Hogan’s old show mare, Sensational Lollipop. Of Lollipop’s seven foals, there are two that have yet to hit the show pen, a weanling and yearling. All of the others have won World titles for the family.  

Tami and Eddie have won this particular class several times in the past, but today was extra special because of the song that was playing as she completed her victory lap. It was Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up,” which was the same song that was chosen to play at her father’s funeral, twelve years ago. 

Megan East Hogan rode a homebred and raised gelding, Scene It Eye To Eye, to win the 2-Year-Old Non Pro Western Pleasure. The gelding is by Scenic Impulse and is the first foal out of a mare her mother used to show, Certainly Flirtin. Megan admits to feeling a few nerves going into tonight’s performance, because it was her horse’s maiden voyage.