MokeyBird
07-11-07, 08:30 PM 07-11-07
I went to the Lexington Junior League Horse Show last night with my dad, sister, sisters fiancee. WHAT A NIGHT!
At the end of the show ring there is a humongous television screen that basically televises the show as it is going on twenty feet in front of it...There were so many horses that buzzed out because of it, it was scary.
In one class, the horse decided he wasn't going anywhere near the thing and dumped his rider. She walked out of the class, but apparently had to be taken to the hospital for xrays. I think she ended up with a broken rib or two.
In EVERY harness class, one horse or another buzzed out and took off jumping through the ring.
In the line up of the ney Pony Pairs Driving Class, one team stood up, knocking the header over and ended up running him over with the Viceroy. The guy was okay. He got up and walked off without a limp. The wheels ran straight over his legs. Either way.
And in the Three Gaited Junior Horse class, there was one FANTASTIC horse who was spooked by the Ego-tron from the very beginning. He came in looking alright, came around the turn, saw himself on TV, and spooked so badly that the rider completely lost one of his stirrups. (If I looked like that and saw myself for the first time, I'd be scared too.)
Right after the lineup, when they retired down to the scary end of the ring to wait for the results, the horse "came untrained". He jumped the rail and ended up in the Announcer's box! The room was roughly 8'x12' with quite a few people inside. The horse went right through the door. The rider bailed before he went in and is okay, but one of the girls in the box ended up with a broken nose and it looked like a broken ankle.
I was standing RIGHT next to the box and got this picture literally about FOUR SECONDS before he bailed. I barely had time to look at the picture before he ended up in the building. See how close I was? It was WILD! That is a great picture. I hope it isn't his last... http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex24.jpg
It was scary. One big dude jumped in the box right after the horse and held his head down while the vet came and tranqued him. They tried tearing apart the building, but it was freaking the horse out too badly that they ended up having to physically drag him out on a tarp. The vet checked him out when he was out and said that there were no visible broken legs/bones. They managed to get him to his feet and walked him out and back to the barns supported by about fifteen people.
Here he was when he first came in. Looks pretty good here.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex19.jpg
Putting the stirrup back on.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex21.jpg
Here was right after his first "close encounter" with the Death-o-tron. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex20.jpg
Another "OMG!" shot.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex22.jpg
One of the theories was that he headed for the box, because it looked like a stall. Now that makes sense.
Someone mentioned how some people need to desensitize our horses to things like that...But how many peopl have forty foot televisions lying around.
Aye aye aye!!! What a messed up night! At every show this year it seems like some horse or person has either died or ended up seriously injured. I am now a bit hesitant to take my Tonykins to Harrodsburg for fear he will get hurt. I just pray I can hang on to the hot little sucker. We didn't name him Hot Tony for nothing.
I'll put the rest of my pictures in my picture thread.
At the end of the show ring there is a humongous television screen that basically televises the show as it is going on twenty feet in front of it...There were so many horses that buzzed out because of it, it was scary.
In one class, the horse decided he wasn't going anywhere near the thing and dumped his rider. She walked out of the class, but apparently had to be taken to the hospital for xrays. I think she ended up with a broken rib or two.
In EVERY harness class, one horse or another buzzed out and took off jumping through the ring.
In the line up of the ney Pony Pairs Driving Class, one team stood up, knocking the header over and ended up running him over with the Viceroy. The guy was okay. He got up and walked off without a limp. The wheels ran straight over his legs. Either way.
And in the Three Gaited Junior Horse class, there was one FANTASTIC horse who was spooked by the Ego-tron from the very beginning. He came in looking alright, came around the turn, saw himself on TV, and spooked so badly that the rider completely lost one of his stirrups. (If I looked like that and saw myself for the first time, I'd be scared too.)
Right after the lineup, when they retired down to the scary end of the ring to wait for the results, the horse "came untrained". He jumped the rail and ended up in the Announcer's box! The room was roughly 8'x12' with quite a few people inside. The horse went right through the door. The rider bailed before he went in and is okay, but one of the girls in the box ended up with a broken nose and it looked like a broken ankle.
I was standing RIGHT next to the box and got this picture literally about FOUR SECONDS before he bailed. I barely had time to look at the picture before he ended up in the building. See how close I was? It was WILD! That is a great picture. I hope it isn't his last... http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex24.jpg
It was scary. One big dude jumped in the box right after the horse and held his head down while the vet came and tranqued him. They tried tearing apart the building, but it was freaking the horse out too badly that they ended up having to physically drag him out on a tarp. The vet checked him out when he was out and said that there were no visible broken legs/bones. They managed to get him to his feet and walked him out and back to the barns supported by about fifteen people.
Here he was when he first came in. Looks pretty good here.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex19.jpg
Putting the stirrup back on.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex21.jpg
Here was right after his first "close encounter" with the Death-o-tron. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex20.jpg
Another "OMG!" shot.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/MokeyBird/Horses/Lex22.jpg
One of the theories was that he headed for the box, because it looked like a stall. Now that makes sense.
Someone mentioned how some people need to desensitize our horses to things like that...But how many peopl have forty foot televisions lying around.
Aye aye aye!!! What a messed up night! At every show this year it seems like some horse or person has either died or ended up seriously injured. I am now a bit hesitant to take my Tonykins to Harrodsburg for fear he will get hurt. I just pray I can hang on to the hot little sucker. We didn't name him Hot Tony for nothing.
I'll put the rest of my pictures in my picture thread.