HN's Annual Halloween Costume Awards: Readers, send us your pics!
'Tis the season for dressing your horse up in humiliating costumes. Email pics to [email protected] and enjoy these classics from 2012!
Top photo: Stephanie Echols
- CUTEST COUPLE
Ted Craig (Palms, CA): “A jolly holiday dressed as Mary Poppins and Bert riding carousel horses. (Mountain Meadows Boarders)”
- BEST MINIATURE HORSE IN A TUTU
Kaycie Timm (Katy, TX): “My miniature horse, Bambi on Ice, and I in our Nutcracker themed costumes. She is the Sugar Plum Fairy and I am the mouse king!”
- CUTEST!!!
Ashley Russell (Great Falls, VA): Golly Tabatabaie dressed as Princess Jasmine, my son Brody Russell dressed as Aladdin, and Cupid’s Little Arrow dressed as a mini elephant.”
- GROSSEST
Rebecca Fecher: “Coby and his horse Milagro having some Halloween fun!”
- MOST CREATIVE USE OF COTTON BALLS
Caren Gallaher: “Our version of little Bo peep;) 60 hours of cotton ball sewing;) and the candy fairy. Great costumes at Fiesta Farm–Also Nemo and an anemone, a paper doll and pony and a peacock;)”
Anna Collier (Ann Arbor, MI): “Sydney Collier a 14 year old Grade 2 Para Equestrian with the USPEA and her very special American Paint Horse named Rebel Chip!”
Nicole Kovacik
- LEAST AMUSED EQUINE FACIAL EXPRESSION
Marianne Meagher Gradeless: “The Hot Dog is my horse Jack, the Mustard is my grandaughter Victoria! Much to Jack’s dismay!”
- MOST INVENTIVE
Ashley Russell (Great Falls, VA): “Ashley Russell as the Headless Horseman riding Ariaan with my daughter Teagan Russell as the pumpkin head.”
- MOST TOLERANT HORSES
Pam Haverland Thomas (Phillipsburg, NJ): “Mario and Luigi”
- MOST LIKELY TO CAST A SPELL ON THE JUDGE
Stephanie Guerlain: “Stephanie Guerlain riding her trusty broom, Camden.”
Leah Simpson: “We thought you would like this picture of my daughter Hannah and her pony, the witch and the black cat!”
- MOST RIDICULOUS (IN A GOOD WAY!)
Theresa Flowers (South Bend, IN)
- MOST LIKELY TO TALK LIKE A PIRATE
Heather D (Dayton, OH): “Myself as a pirate and my TB Edison as The Black Pearl 
”
- MOST COLORFUL
Micki Woodward McDaniel (Danville, KY): “My Little Pony”
- MOST HILARIOUS
Pam Bennett-Skinner (Durango, CO): “This is Faleen and I in our Dressage Queen/Dancing Queen costume for our Dancing Queen freestyle at a local dressage show. (I’m an eventer, I only play a DQ around Halloween.)”
- MOST HISTORICAL
Tami Harris: “Hi, This is Kneehigh dressed in his destrier costume, I wanted to share for your Costume Contest. He is indeed lionhearted as he braved a nearby hot air balloon giving rides, just so he could play basketball with the kids. I hope you’ll like his facebook page and follow his adventures at http://facebook.com/
- SCARIEST
Kelly Schrader (Ackworth, GA): “Here is one costume we had for Halloween one year.”
- MOST COLOR COORDINATED
Kimberly Lennon-Freire: “My kids some ten years back aboard my now 21 retired event horse, Captain Ahab.”
- MOST TONGUE-IN-CHEEK
Ann Miller Sterritt (Stratham, NH): “Camel and Rider”
- MOST BAD A$$
Kristi Gottsponer (Las Cruces, NM): “In my roller derby uniform with my draft cross Miss American Pie as my skate”
Happy Halloween!!!
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