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 Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | Someone is hosting a benefit to help with a tornado that hit recently.. But it's going to be a glow in the dark race. They said the warm up arena will be lit and then alley way is lit by hanging rope lights on the fence and the barrels will "glow" but no lights in the arena.
This sounds like a fun idea and maybe if it were a playday type deal it would be fun. Has anyone been to something like this? I just can't imagine there being a great turn out or everything going smoothly.. Barrel racing is dangerous enough as is.  |
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| Hate to be a party pooper but doubt I would run at a glow in the dark race. |
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Location: IL | outrundaizy - 2015-05-13 8:57 PM Someone is hosting a benefit to help with a tornado that hit recently.. But it's going to be a glow in the dark race. They said the warm up arena will be lit and then alley way is lit by hanging rope lights on the fence and the barrels will "glow" but no lights in the arena.
This sounds like a fun idea and maybe if it were a playday type deal it would be fun. Has anyone been to something like this? I just can't imagine there being a great turn out or everything going smoothly.. Barrel racing is dangerous enough as is.
Barrel Bash has done this a couple times for their show at Gordyville that is held in Oct. They actually have to limit the entries and they run it slot race style. It's a lot of fun to watch. Some amazing times have been run too! People decorate their horses with glow in the dark stuff and really get into it. I'd say that you really would have to have a horse you trust to send in there and not knock. But I suppose we also have to remember that horses see better in the dark than we realize too. :) |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | TACKyPaints - 2015-05-13 9:01 PM
outrundaizy - 2015-05-13 8:57 PM Someone is hosting a benefit to help with a tornado that hit recently.. But it's going to be a glow in the dark race. They said the warm up arena will be lit and then alley way is lit by hanging rope lights on the fence and the barrels will "glow" but no lights in the arena.
This sounds like a fun idea and maybe if it were a playday type deal it would be fun. Has anyone been to something like this? I just can't imagine there being a great turn out or everything going smoothly.. Barrel racing is dangerous enough as is.
Yes, been there. It's a blast to watch! |
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Location: Montana | I'd love to see one...I'd probably attend one too! Sounds like a cool idea.  |
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Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | TACKyPaints - 2015-05-13 9:01 PM outrundaizy - 2015-05-13 8:57 PM Someone is hosting a benefit to help with a tornado that hit recently.. But it's going to be a glow in the dark race. They said the warm up arena will be lit and then alley way is lit by hanging rope lights on the fence and the barrels will "glow" but no lights in the arena.
This sounds like a fun idea and maybe if it were a playday type deal it would be fun. Has anyone been to something like this? I just can't imagine there being a great turn out or everything going smoothly.. Barrel racing is dangerous enough as is.
Good to know! Thank you!  |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I'd do it. Sounds like a lot of fun. But we have gathered our ranch horses in the wee hours of dawn, using a spot light to find them. I will tell you one thing, we live in some nasty rough country and those suckers can FLY at night. I think they really do see on an entire different level than we do.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Maybe if I could wear a headlight on my head, LOL
I have helped friends catch and rope loose cattle way late at night off highways, I would be the spot light carrier on my horse spot lighting the head of the cattle while they rope them, man what a rush that was... |
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Location: Tennessee | I'd do it! But I like riding at night, even your eyes adjust some if there's no light around. There's nothing like heading out at day & getting back home at night :) I love it, your senses heighten & it's like you can hear every breath your horse takes :) |
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Location: Driving, Grooming, or Saddling for a Kid! | The main barrel race at the benefit isnt a glow in the dark race. Its a side race that they are doing at the benefit. |
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Location: Kansas | I think it would be neat....but I know my gelding would not run if he couldn't see lol. |
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| I think that sounds like a blast! |
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| would never ask my horses to do something like that but to each their own |
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| Sounds like a train wreck
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Location: NE Texas | I think it sounds fun! I probably wouldn't run my gelding...he's terrifying under perfect conditions, but I think it would be fun to take a young horse and play! |
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Location: North Dakota | I'd totally do it. My gelding can handle just about anything, I'm sure glow in the dark would be no problem. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | I ride a lot in the pitch black...in the winter months anyway..lol....i think it would be fun...id give it a go......m |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | If I were in my younger days I would have, but now that I'm older and wiser  LOL I may do it at a lope but not haul booty. The younger ones have no fear  |
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| My friend won the one at Gifford. I want to say she ran one of the (if not the) fastest times of the weekend in the dark. :) It was an interesting video to say the least! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I think it'd be cool. I've ridden at night a lot of times during the summer, your eyes eventually adjust surprisingly well.
The only thing that I think would be hard is running from a lit area to a dark one. If the warm up is attached and is lit up its going to be hard on both your eyes going from a brightly lit warm up to a dark alley/arena. If there was a way to stand in the dark a little bit before your run that would be best. |
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| I'd do it! Sounds like a blast!! I've heard there will be some sort of lights like Christmas lights around the whole arena, and at least the barrels glow in the dark! Beats loping through a cornfield in the dark and using a tiny cell phone light to figure out where the barbed wire fence is! That probably wasn't smart.
Edited by IowaCanChaser 2015-05-14 12:11 PM
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Location: Midwest | Nateracer - 2015-05-14 10:51 AM My friend won the one at Gifford. I want to say she ran one of the (if not the) fastest times of the weekend in the dark. :) It was an interesting video to say the least!
Who was that? I can't remember who won last year.
While I'm not as adventurous as I used to be, LOL, it is a lot of fun to watch. It's a bit like a costume contest of sorts with the glow in the dark items on the horse and rider. At Gifford, they limit the number of riders, so it doesn't go on forever.
It's really not SUPER dark in the arena as the warm up area is lit, so some light comes through.
Here's on old video (From FB, I think this was 2013. You can't really see the glowing) https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpa1/v/t42.1790-2/1242087_10151986587297392_2088182347_n.mp4?oh=af501d202879e9d302e2c7c3853c9170&oe=5555010C |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Wouldn't that suck if you laid down the best run of your LIFE and you couldn't even see it on video haha "I just broke the arena record by a full second...here's my video, but you can't actually see me. I swear it was good though."  |
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| What if someone cheats and turns before the 3rd barrel by about 15 foot? LOL |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| barrelracr131 - 2015-05-14 1:07 PM Nateracer - 2015-05-14 10:51 AM My friend won the one at Gifford. I want to say she ran one of the (if not the) fastest times of the weekend in the dark. :) It was an interesting video to say the least! Who was that? I can't remember who won last year.
While I'm not as adventurous as I used to be, LOL, it is a lot of fun to watch. It's a bit like a costume contest of sorts with the glow in the dark items on the horse and rider. At Gifford, they limit the number of riders, so it doesn't go on forever.
It's really not SUPER dark in the arena as the warm up area is lit, so some light comes through.
Here's on old video (From FB, I think this was 2013. You can't really see the glowing) https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpa1/v/t42.1790-2/1242087_10151986587297392_2088182347_n.mp4?oh=af501d202879e9d302e2c7c3853c9170&oe=5555010C
Amanda Corcoran on OP Dashing Sammy
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| I don't know if you'll be able to see it, but here is the link to that video on FB>
https://www.facebook.com/amandarockinaleather/videos/vb.545905710/10154787338610711/?type=3&theater |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
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That's Awesome! I think she did win it last year. I don't know her personally though.
I had a great time watching. No one had any issues with the horses freaking out- I think they see better than we think. Plus, it wasn't dangerously dark. It was dark over the bleachers and I had no issues going to the bathroom and getting back to my seat. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Ha ha ha ha ha, I think that must have been a good run her time was really good |
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Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | FLITASTIC - 2015-05-14 12:16 PM What if someone cheats and turns before the 3rd barrel by about 15 foot? LOL
That happened to me once...but not at a glow in the dark barrel race. A barrel race lasted too long at an arena, and nobody new how to turn the lights on and the ground was terrible (several girls went down that night). I was one of the last to run and my mare and I turned before the 3rd barrel. Not cool. |
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Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | DunIt - 2015-05-14 7:38 AM The main barrel race at the benefit isnt a glow in the dark race. Its a side race that they are doing at the benefit.
Thank you!! I didn't see that before! All I saw was info for the glow in the dark barrel race and thought they were talking about the open, wish I still had my old horse and I would do it! I have never seen one of these before so i'm sure it will be fun to watch |
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Glow in the dark barrel race?