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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.
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Hungarian Midget Woman
 
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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| 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
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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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Ha ha ha ha ha, I think that must have been a good run her time was really good  |
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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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