ACROSS
1. You may be a member of this (8)
5. May be fed as mash. (4)
6. Offspring of male donkeys and mares. (5)
8. British Horse Society (3)
9. At these stables horses are kept as baorders. (6)
12. The age by which a foal will have 6 unworn milk teeth. (4)
14. How you --- is important in dressage. (3)
DOWN
1. Part of the saddle. (6)
2. Hammered into the wall of the foot. (4)
3. Breeds with a pony's head and a horses body. (4)
4. Cross country jumps. (5)
7. We have one too. (3)
8. Name given to an extra hunting day. (3)
10. Horse doctor. (3)
11. Rarely fed to horses. (3)
12. -- grass. (2)

Today I went to my very first horse show!  There were at least ________ riders 
                                                                number
in every class, you could hardly _______ it was so crowded!  The judge was a 
                                   verb
_______  ________ and didn't like my horse much.  He said I needed to _______
  adj   noun                                                             verb
and __________ so my horse wouldn't move so much like a ____________.
      verb                                                 noun  
I said "________ you very much."  The weather was _________, almost ________
         verb                                        adj              number
degrees- so at lunch we drank lots of __________ and __________.  In the 
                                        liquid        liquid
afternoon there was a ________ class.  We had to _______ and ________
                      adj                         verb      verb
for what seemed like forever!  I won a ________ trophy, which was shaped
                                         adj
like a ___________.  Then we put my horse back on the ____________
          noun                                            noun
and headed for _____________.  
                place