Daily Archives: May 12, 2009

Amber, Please tell On The Rodeo Road About your most Embarrassing Run….

 I do not know of any really embarrassing runs, but I can tell you about one of my scariest runs!  It was about 5 years ago on a gelding I had by the name of Pacific Sparks.  I was at an arena that I had previously set an arena record on him at and he LOVED this pen.  He took off to the 1st barrel hard and when he set to turn he over reached and we started to flip head over heels.  I went flying over his head and I remember someone screaming for me to get out of the way.  When I looked back I saw him coming over on top of me, and I started crawling as fast as I could towards the fence.  I got to the fence and he got up and put his leg through the rein and was hung up.  Spark was hopping around on 3 legs and wouldn’t let the guys get to him, I got up and walked over to him and got him to stop.  He let me pick up his leg so we could get the rein unsnapped.  I got back on him and trotted him around the rest of the pattern to see if he was off anywhere.  My stepdad suggested that if I was ok and if I thought Spark was ok that I should run him in the last class to reassure myself and Spark that we were both ok.  I ran him in the last class and we placed 2nd. We were both pretty sore the next day but he got rubbed down with liniments and after a few days of some TLC was as good as new!