Conference noted::equitation

    re. pole benders
    
    
    if your from colorado, you will proably get better info out there
    regarding western .. martha jose' is good, she been around an old time
    but just like old methods are replaced by new methods ..... 
    barrel racing and poles is just about down to a science..
    
    	wendy 
    

    RE: .9
    
    >Well, it sounds like you've really gotten your equestrian endeavors
    >underway since I last talked with you.  Did you buy a horse?  Lease?
    >Borrow??  Beg or steal???
    
    I was leasing for a while, but now with the econ, etc., it's not
    feasbile for me.  8^(  I have been doing a lot of traveling, tho,
    and have been doing a LOT of riding this past year at my friend's
    AQHA ranch in OK.  He's been giving me pointers on polo stuff and
    riding QH's around poles (It's pretty wild how they kick their rear
    quarters around those poles!!).  Hopefully after the holidays are over,
    I can return to a lease agreement in the MA area.
    
    RE: .11
    
    >if your from colorado, you will proably get better info out there
    >regarding western .. martha jose' is good, she been around an old time
    >but just like old methods are replaced by new methods ..... 
    >barrel racing and poles is just about down to a science..
    
    A science, really?  Where can I find the secret to this "science"?!?!?
    
    Buck E Lee5

    BUCK 
    
    you slimeball look what you started...
    
    
    	wendy o"
     

    We have quite a few Gymkhana clubs in my area (Southeastern MA)
    
    I will be joining one this spring, as a matter of fact.  I want
    to get my horse used to showing, and some of these clubs meet
    every Sunday all summer, so he will be able to get used to it
    all very quickly......
    
    I should look pretty funny doing barrels, poles, keyholes, etc.
    at a trot...but what the heck, it gets me out ridin'! (-8
    
    

    re: .5
    
    I wouldn't worry about it Lynne, most of those clubs are geared for
    fun.  My friends and I went to LBW in Sturbridge.  They learned there,
    as well as myself....and I did it at a trot/lope when I first started too!
    
    My girlfriend is getting real good at the barrels, and she went to the
    clinic at Oneco the beginning of the month, and she looks fantastic. 
    In fact she is probably good enough to start competing in the rodeos..
    ...at least thats what she was told.  This clinic helped her cut
    seconds off her time.  I can't wait to see her comepete at a bigger
    level!
    
    We'll be spending memorial weekend in maine at the pole
    clinic.....should be interesting.
    

    
    	How come all these notes get started for a month or so and then
    just die?
    	I have been fallowing RODEO for a long time.  I rode JRA and PRCA
    fro a while.  I then had the bright idea of getting married.  Well, he
    was a bull rider so we kept fallowing the circut.  The one problem was
    he was in the military.  Some how we ended up in Long Island.  There
    were quite a few shows in the area but we had to travel so far and
    neither of us could get time off together.  I was working at Pinebourne
    Farms as barn mananger.
    	As things are in life, I was soon divorced.  I wanted a family, he
    would rather ride bulls.  I ended up in California, again.  Within a
    year I was married again, to a bull rider.  We did have a son.  He
    continued to ride untill he was trampled by a rank bull.  I began
    riding again.  
    	Now it is just a weekend thing.  We go and support our friends and
    sometimes do exibition roping.  I realy miss the big shows but I can't
    go and just sit in the stands to wach.  I have to be in it.
    	Sorry about the life story but it just came out.  You all enjoy the
    shows and write in about how things are going.
    
    
    
    vlm

    
    
    	I went to the Bull Riders Only Series this weekend in Long Beach,
    CA.  It was Awsome.  I have been maried to 2 bull riders myself and
    have always loved the event.  I also was on the circut for a year
    before I have my son.  I was a little dissapointed at the opening of
    the show.  It was too comercial for me but the show will be aired on
    Prime Ticked Starting Wed. August 26th.  
    
    	I had met some of the riders Friday night At Catus Jacks in
    Anaheim, CA.  They were all pretty nice but drinked a little much for
    having to ride the next day.  Clint Barenger Was at the bar and we
    talked quite a bit.  He won the event the next day!  The next show is
    in ST. Louis and the finals will be in Colorado.  I wish I could go see
    those too.  I highly recomend seeing this show, only the serious should
    attend as it seemed to take forever to get the guys out of the shutes. 
    But once they were out........Stand By!!!
    
    
    Virginia

    
    
    	Me again,
    
    		I am looking for NFR 92' tickets.  I have called the Thomas
    and Mack arena and they have been sold out since Feb.  I would like all
    ten days if possible.
    
    		Also, one of the first notes in here had something about
    the WPRA.  I would like some information on the Association.  I Had a
    PRCA card A while ago and want to start on the circut again.  An
    address would be great.  Thanks,
    
    
    q				VirginiaZ

    Does anyone know what the set rules are for
    barrel racing?  
    
    Also, what the record breaking time is?  I know it's
    16 seconds .... something.  But I wasn't real sure.
    
    thanks!

    I have the rule book at home.  I'll post it tomorrow if no one else
    does.
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    The "Standard" pattern is arranged as follows:
    
    A cloverleaf barrel pattern is set so that barrels one and two (the
    left and right leaves) form a line parallel to start/finish line
    sixty feet distant from the start line.  The two barrels should be
    ninety feet apart.  The third barrel is placed so that a line from that
    barrel drawn perpendicularly to the line described by barrels one and 
    two would bisect the line from one to two.  Barrel three should be 155
    feet from the start line, approximately 105 feet from barrels one and
    two.  the pattern should be centered in the arena.  The barrels should 
    be no less than thirty feet from any fence or wall.
    
    Now, if you have an arena that is too small for the given dimensions,
    you shift and adjust the dimensions to allow for a safe clearance of
    the walls.  The distance from the timeline can be reduced down to
    thirty feet, if need be.  
    
    Pro rodeo and the AQHA use the dimensions described above.  A top
    barrel horse can run a pattern in 15 seconds.  
    
    Bonus description:  A pole bending/weaving pattern is a set of six
    poles set up in a line with the first pole placed 21 feet from the
    start line and the spacing between poles being 21 feet.  A good pole
    horse can run a weaving pattern in 12 seconds and a pole bending
    pattern in under twenty-one seconds.