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Rain soaks competitors in trail horse trials Sunday The Acton Free Press Wed August 1976 COOKING IN THE RAIN Pat Thompson of Acton shelters under the pavilion as she at tempts to boil corn at the Trail Riders Trail Horse Trials Sunday The weather or which this summer be coming famous drenched he Trail Riders annual Trail Horse Trials held at the Presbytery Grounds Blue Springs Line Sunday Downpours created some extra obstacles mile course and dampened fires but contestants remained sunny and declared the day an unqualified sue cess Organizers club president Paul Thomp son secretary Pat Thompson and MargCox Kaz and Sue Mo and Pat Beck had some Intricate obstacles arranged for the GO contestants The initial rial was a smoldering fire ringed with smudge pots followed by a wooden gate The horse was required to step calmly through the ire and proceed sideways to the gate while his rider opened it Quite a few horses were very definite in their opinion of his obstacle Other obstacles on the trail leading through surrounding bush country includ bleating goats a canvas blind to pass through a steep slippery hill bridges and jumps a hat being dragged along the road simulating a scurrying animal rider dismounting in a creek and mounting on the off side riding into a pond to horse belly depth and dipping waler in a pail from I he inside of an inner tube Dave Johnson of had consider able trouble at this test his horse kept rearing in the middle of the water threatening to baptize his rider I Ike a bod The most frightening obstacle according to a poll taken of the horses was a bush drapedwithplnstie crowned by i hat and mans and sh iken as riders ap proached Wood of Acton comment It looked like a body Misty did the world fastest pirouette ind had to be led Two divisions were featured novice rid en and open riders or Western tack was permitted Riders were signalled to start at two minute intervals and per formed the first four tests within the grounds before proceeding to the trail The winding course brought them in the back of the camp where their fin lest was loading a hopefully willing horse into one of two trailers and corn on Ihocob were served for supper before the awards were presented by and Km were market out of ten for each obstacle mil results totaled Awards were is follows Novice 1 Julie Alma nit Debbie Simpson Vinclind leky Poo Don Johnston Sun J met Hick Rim Mitt Lair Muss Brim i Mis Son Stony Hick i J I mil ID Ionic I stem Kitchener I is Julie irlcl received in iddition award a liter Roctr Johnson of Acton for Open I I it million Ron Warmold lt i ucky I Bob Buddy amuck Roll ilr Ben Hon it St Dude nils 1 u ft id nil Holy Unarm l lirikginj it Pete Medic ti Iph iter let 1 lrbutl wo Hi i ml Horsemanship i llin logs of LIZ MOSS of Rockwood has no trouble riding Fury over a sheet of plastic covered with brush at the Trail Horse Trials held near Sunday in very rainy weather STEPS GINGERLY over a smouldering Jean Pettit of Rockwood urges the young mare on at the TrdilRtders Horse Trials held recently at the Presbytery Grounds Summertime picnic for Golden Age Club The are over for another term and the only subject left to diseuss is The phenomenal cost of the games is not sort point When it is so obvious that subsidized from Communist countries arc capable of a greater degree of the common complaint is our athletes I helped enough Where do our Unities get their mom Look equestrian members They have some of the 1irfesl expenses of all athletes Not do they train them sokes but hate to provide one or two very expensive horses ind i great of costly equipment not to mention board lining ind transportation of horses all adding up five and six figure sums but hard work Whenever it if jnada Team member how tan hope to aim for the Olympic Equestrian Team if ill he she is talent I get vam lion of that its easy if you have ire willing to work hard Noone of the equestrian elite will actually explain indetail how a voung rider affords he necessary high calibre horses the lining showing costs that rider climbs the ladder high enough lobe selected by the Team and therefore become the grateful recipient of a certain amount of subsidization Sponsors please Inquiries over the years have revealed many a promising rider is lucky enough to catch he eye of a wealthy sponsor that is luck enough to catch the eye of a wealthy sponsor that is if his own family got necessary funds In some cases the sponsor is in the form of a businessman with a farm who wants a rising young name to ride his horses Sometimes sponsorship is more paternal or maternal especially if the rider is attractive Whatever the cast he sponsorship has lobe very discrewt in order to retain the fragile amateur status of an aspiring Olympic athlete The rider is never piul is a show rider but he may be hired as a farm manager Or he may receive large amounts of board for horses he nils The prize money for equestrian competitions is never for the rider but for the 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