Pre-game Warm-up

Broom Polo

Broom Polo

Jellybean Race

Jelly Bean Race

Musical Stalls

Pole Bending

Pole Bending

Ribbon Race

Ride-A-Buck

Per Samantha: OUCH!!!

Ride-A-Buck

Ride-A-Buck

Big Stretch

Allison offers advice to Samantha before the games begin.

The object was to get the ball through your team's goal posts.

Scoring the winning goal.

The Goal: find the 1 jelly bean on the plate.

The Problems: the jelly bean is buried under a pound of powdered sugar AND you can't use your hands.

The Solution: BLOW!!!

The 'sweet' (literally - since they were covered in powdered sugar) winners.

Just like the musical chairs game you played as a young child but now you're racing around on a horse and trying to coax said horse into a small area...without stepping over the 'stall' borders.

Object is to weave in and out of the poles. The best time wins.

Heading towards the finish line.

Partners each hole an end of the ribbon while maneuvering their horses through a series of called turns. The team that lasts the longest - without breaking their ribbon - wins.

Done bareback with a dollar bill between your leg and the horse. Rider puts the horse through a series of 'called' steps The object is to be the last one riding while still holding that dollar bill in place with your leg.

Samantha is starting to lose her dollar bill.

While Sam and Coffee were the first ones out, neither one seems to mind. Look at the grin. :-)

One of the things that Samantha practiced (at the farm) was getting on and off a horse without a mounting block. Good thing too! It came in handy when doing the Potato Race and the Jelly Bean Race.