We're Goin' To Fall Off!!!(lol)

by Lexy N.
(Pierce, Nebraska)

My cousin and I were at a horse show in Leigh, Nebraska in about September of 2006. We were signed up to do the Pickup Race. The Pickup Race is where a person rides up on their horse and picks their partner up from the ground; their partner then gets on the back of the rider's horse and you run back to the finish line.

Well we decided to practice it so we'd be ready to do it at the end of the show. My aunt and dad had brought me and my cousin to the horse show. Me and my cousin were just teasing my aunt 'we're goin' to fall off'. My aunt was like 'no you won't'. We said 'yes we were' you know just kidding around.

Well that day I forgot my billet to attach the cinch to the saddle so i had to use my back billet which was only one layer whereas the front billet had two layers. So we were toward our turn in the Pickup Race. We went into the arena set to win. I ran up beside my cousin swung her up on the back of my horse and turned to head for home.

But.................................. the next thing we knew we were on the ground....... with the saddle. As so as we fell my cousin said 'are you ok'? I said yes and i just felt al ittle stunned.

But my horse meanwhile ran to the end of the arena before she realized nobody was on her back! She came loping back to us and we got up with everybody surrounding us hoping we were ok.

As we exited the arena the crowd was yelling reride, reride but the judge said that that wouldn't be fair. And I thought we wouldn't be able to ride anyway because my billet broke(lol)!

So we exited the arena and burst out laughing! But my dad on the other hand was as enthused. We still laughs that we predicted our fall (sort of)!