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This is up here in Minnesota! Favorite event to watch but this year (from this video) was by far one of the best years I have seen for diggers! |
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Location: CTX |  Wow, that looks like a lot of fun!! |
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Location: North Dakota | Wow it must take an especially tolerant and at least one especially insane human to do that! |
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Location: North Dakota | Ouch! That hurts. (When the guy fell on his head!!)
My mom and I have been doing the Rescue Race together for years. It's fun! 
I don't have a video, but last year we had a neighbor take a ton of pictures. We took 2nd place out of about 30 teams ... and my horse had NEVER done this event before and had never been ridden double before and my mom had maybe ridden him once before. (What a trooper!) The key, as you see, is you have to swing on "pony express" style if you expect to be the fastest.
Mid-swing
My mom's facial expression when they said our time!!!
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You friend, are effin nuts...and so is your lovely mom haha. That looks like so much fun...but I don't want to die yet LOL. |
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Location: OH | This used to be HUGE back here in Ohio back in the day then everyone got worried about insurance and quit doing it. People got so good that you would just run the arena and old your arm out and one bounce and they were on--we called it The Pick Up Race though. |
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| This is Champ Show in MN!!! We used to do it all of the time. Champ show also did trailer race...those two were my fave to watch. SO much fun.
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Location: MD | Holy cow some of those rides were pretty impressive!
I am DEFINITELY not brave enough for that! I wish i was!! that looks like a lot of fun.. I can't imagine what my horses would have to say about that! |
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Location: Oklahoma | This post deserves the "Friday Funny of the Year" award.
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| lopnaround - 2015-10-16 1:32 PM
This is Champ Show in MN!!! We used to do it all of the time. Champ show also did trailer race...those two were my fave to watch. SO much fun.
I am so glad State Fair still does trailer race... thats the best!!!!
For those not familiar, Rescue probably has about 80 teams at the year end show. These are mainly the bloopers of the event. The winning run is in there (9.4) but there were several other super good pick-ups! There was a kid team where the jumper swung on the back and knocked the "driver" off. So the kid was on the back and no one on the front. It was pretty comical. Wish I ahd video'd that.
I was always the rider for rescue and was fortunate enough to have some great jumpers. I jumped one horse when I was younger. I have some awesome pictures of it. i will try and share.
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| stayceem - 2015-10-16 1:57 PM lopnaround - 2015-10-16 1:32 PM This is Champ Show in MN!!! We used to do it all of the time. Champ show also did trailer race...those two were my fave to watch. SO much fun.
I am so glad State Fair still does trailer race... thats the best!!!! For those not familiar, Rescue probably has about 80 teams at the year end show. These are mainly the bloopers of the event. The winning run is in there (9.4 ) but there were several other super good pick-ups! There was a kid team where the jumper swung on the back and knocked the "driver" off. So the kid was on the back and no one on the front. It was pretty comical. Wish I ahd video'd that. I was always the rider for rescue and was fortunate enough to have some great jumpers. I jumped one horse when I was younger. I have some awesome pictures of it. i will try and share.
Awesome pic!! I couldn't jump to save my life...always rode. I alway tried to get the guy I had a crush on to jump;) |
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| lopnaround - 2015-10-16 2:01 PM
stayceem - 2015-10-16 1:57 PM lopnaround - 2015-10-16 1:32 PM This is Champ Show in MN!!! We used to do it all of the time. Champ show also did trailer race...those two were my fave to watch. SO much fun.
I am so glad State Fair still does trailer race... thats the best!!!! For those not familiar, Rescue probably has about 80 teams at the year end show. These are mainly the bloopers of the event. The winning run is in there (9.4 ) but there were several other super good pick-ups! There was a kid team where the jumper swung on the back and knocked the "driver" off. So the kid was on the back and no one on the front. It was pretty comical. Wish I ahd video'd that. I was always the rider for rescue and was fortunate enough to have some great jumpers. I jumped one horse when I was younger. I have some awesome pictures of it. i will try and share.
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We also do the Hangman's Race. Have some pictures from that same day. Once again, first time for my horse. We took 3rd place in that, out of a good 30+ teams.
The partner has to grab the rope, hang there while the rider and horse go around the barrel, pick up the "hangman", and head for home! You can't touch the ground or you are disqualified.
Good times.....
I remember one show many years ago where they 2 guys did the HangMan's race (different arena than this) and they came in so fast to the rope that when the back guy grabbed on, he swung HIGH HIGH into the air. They got lucky enough to have perfect timing that when the horse/rider were coming back, they perfectly were in place when the guy was on the down swing. It was pretty cool. (And a fast run! Needless to say, they won.)
Leaving me "hanging"
Going for the barrel...
Picking me up....
And we're home!
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Ha we call that Monkey in a Tree!!!!
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| stayceem - 2015-10-16 2:06 PM lopnaround - 2015-10-16 2:01 PM stayceem - 2015-10-16 1:57 PM lopnaround - 2015-10-16 1:32 PM This is Champ Show in MN!!! We used to do it all of the time. Champ show also did trailer race...those two were my fave to watch. SO much fun.
I am so glad State Fair still does trailer race... thats the best!!!! For those not familiar, Rescue probably has about 80 teams at the year end show. These are mainly the bloopers of the event. The winning run is in there (9.4 ) but there were several other super good pick-ups! There was a kid team where the jumper swung on the back and knocked the "driver" off. So the kid was on the back and no one on the front. It was pretty comical. Wish I ahd video'd that. I was always the rider for rescue and was fortunate enough to have some great jumpers. I jumped one horse when I was younger. I have some awesome pictures of it. i will try and share. Oh gosh, I probably know who that was
Not Keith Krause!! But kinda looked like him lol. |
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Location: MI | Haha! We did this at the last show of our playday this year. My daughters did it on the 28yo gelding they rode all year. We were so proud of how my 6yo climbed up on the tall gelding.
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Location: Tennessee | BB Leo and I used to do this back when we were much younger. I was always the rider and she was always the jumper...we actually did pretty well. They don't run it anymore here though, too many got hurt :-( |
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| Awesome video! Thanks for sharing! |
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | im sure there are videos of the ky state fair rescue race... they have been running that one longer than i have been alive. |
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| KY State Fair has some of the best rescue racers ever. haha Most of them actually get on though. Even thought the bloopers are always hilarious!
I used to run my bat a$$ crazy gelding in this, he was small and he could haul so he was a perfect candidate. I'm always the runner not the jumper though. haha Fat people don't jump! We've had a lot of accidents doing this, and one thing I learned from all of this, and girls with long hair take note, If you are going to do this, wear your hair in a bun so it doesn't get used as a handle! That's how BOTH of us ended up on the ground! hahaha
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Location: Montana | That made me laugh so hard it brough tears to my eyes!  |
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