I won’t be going to the horse show tonight, but I do have to stay up until it’s over — which could be late, especially since they’re making up three of the classes missed due to thunderstorms on Friday.

The last classes on the first Saturday night of the Celebration are the split divisions (usually two, depending on the number of entries) of the Walking Stallions, Five Years and Over, Over 15.2 class. (The 15.2 refers to the size of the horse, measured in hands.) There are several preliminary classes that allow a horse to be entered into the World Grand Championship next Saturday, but generally the World Grand Champion comes out of the aged stallion division, and so the horses that do well in the aged stallion class tonight will be considered the front-runners next Saturday.

Next weekend, we will hold up production of the Sunday paper until after the World Grand Championship has been decided Saturday night. But we don’t do that this weekend, and so our Sunday paper is being put to bed right now, on Saturday afternoon. The Sunday paper will not include the names of the stallion class winners. So I am going to post them to our web site tonight. I’ll try to keep up with the show on the radio, and our editor, who is doing the actual show coverage, will also call me with the names of the stallion class winners as soon as they’re announced.

That may not be until very late, especially with the three make-up classes added to the schedule.