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| Sidney Gaver and friends sport rhinestoned hats in trainer Lori Crow's barn color. Sidney will compete Saturday in the trail finals. |
Rhinestoned burgundy ball caps have become a trademark for California trainer Lori Crow and her three clients who competed in trail this week.
“The hat thing got started by a client who went to a horse show and came back to the barn (wearing the hat), and we all said, ‘What a cute hat,’” Lori said. “So she went out and bought us all hats, and then we found them in every color of the rainbow.”
Lori found the hats in burgundy, her barn color, at a gift store before making the drive out to Amarillo.
“I bought them as little congratulation presents for the girls to wear here at the horse show.”
Thanks to those hats, Sidney Gaver, the only one of Lori’s three riders to qualify for Saturday’s trail finals, won’t have any trouble finding her cheering section. She will guide her 1990 sorrel gelding, Sir Quincy Redford, through the finals course.
“I had a very good warm-up today,” she said. “It’s a very good course, very well designed. (Course designer) Tim (Kimura) does great courses -- they flow, and you just have to ride them. It really puts the pressure on us.”
Despite the pressure to do well, Sidney, along with Lori and the other two qualifiers from her barn, Victoria Goble and Jeanette Mitchell, have enjoyed their time at the Bayer Select World.
“Had we not done anything at all, it would have been worth it,” Sidney said of the two-day drive the group made to come to the show. This year marked Sidney and Quincy’s first appearance at the Bayer Select World.
