2016 fair rodeo

Donna and I attended the rodeo at the fair again this year.  We went two nights: Friday and tonight.  Friday I forgot my camera but I remembered it tonight.


Each night before the rodeo started there was a lasso artist doing lasso tricks.  He also snapped whips.  I enjoyed watching him.  Donna wasn't that impressed and thought he was a little goofy.

Bareback riding.  12 seconds: https://youtu.be/CQJHkA3zSb8

Bronc riding.       12 seconds: https://youtu.be/0iJ9Cb4jFcI

Bull riding. 2 seconds as this ride was over real quick.  He just missed getting trampled by the bull:  https://youtu.be/N1vaAKPvXw4


Barrel racing.  11 seconds: https://youtu.be/XwE5Yv6t3r4

The Indian Relay races again were my favorite.  Chaos!  In the organization and the execution of the races.  

The horses are very high spirited and just wanted to run.  It was hard for the riders to keep their horses from taking off when (somewhat) lining up for the start.  The flag waver usually lowered the flag for the start when the horses were generally near each other near the start.  Bad luck for the rider whose horse happened to be turning around when the flag was lowered.

Last night some teams had great transfers between horses, other teams did not.  One rider was heading out after a transfer when another rider was coming.  As the second rider was getting off his horse the first horse ran into the second horse knocking the second rider to the ground.  Later one horse was getting away during a transfer and a guy ran in front of the horse to stop it and the horse knocked him flat on the ground without missing a beat.  The guy got up but you could tell he was sore.

Saturday night the Indian Relay races were more chaotic in their organization.  First they had two flat out races around the track.  Then the women raced.  The woman's race didn't have an official start.  The first time when they were (somewhat) lining for the start two women took off and raced around the track.  So the officials tried holding the race again.  This time the other four women took off before the flag was lowered and the first two women racers were left at the start.  The officials gave up and decided to go with the second race and have a winner.

Saturday night was unorganized in how the officials ran the races; the relay teams were more organized.

Here is a 2 minute compilation of an Indian race and two Indian relay races: https://youtu.be/Ne_8SHeeaq0