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1160 days ago
The course layout of the trial here was nice, if you were at the top of the hill near the barns you could see a good portion of the course. The morning started out not very promising at all. In fact, I was very afraid I'd be getting rained on most of the day, that's how dark and dismally gray it was. But the clouds blew out for a brief while, it got wonderfully bright and sunny and I got some great photos. Only drawback was that it was incredibly windy, so much that it actually blew my camera over when I left it unattended for a couple minutes to return to my chair during a lull in the competition. Thankfully no damage was done, I just had to clean a bit of mud off the eyepiece of the camera and some of the tripod. No serious injuries at this trial that i'm aware of. However, I did see a rider fall, it happened right at the fence I happened to be shooting photos at. Amazingly enough the rider somehow managed to hang onto her reins the whole time, which kept the horse from ...
1160 days ago
Time flies when there are so many horse trials. I wish to extend a very sincere thank you to the lovely webmistress of the Erie/Lost Hounds website for her kindness in adding a link to this page from their site so other riders could see if there were photos of themselves available. A note to those who may wish to try and obtain picture files. I'm happy to email them. Just drop me a note to bladedshadow71@yahoo.com with the name of horse and rider and event name and I should be able to do that though I usually resize the images a bit to make them faster to download. After the Erie Hunt & Saddle Club trial back in August there was another trial the following weekend at South Farm. Pictures from it are already posted onto this site, I just forgot to really post anything regarding the trial itself. Nice event, long delay on start due to fog, but turned out rather nice after it finally burned off. I was fairly pleased with the photos, though ...
1194 days ago
Every August the Erie Hunt & Saddle Club holds a horse trial. It's a two day event, just like the Lost Hounds Horse Trial held every June. These two events are held on the same property. The August trial is sometimes longer, as it also now boasts an Intermediate Division where most only go as high as Preliminary. Differences lie in maximum fence heights, complexity of the jumps and the number of total jumping efforts over the entire course. This year there were actually more Intermediate entries than Preliminary, which was a surprise to many I think. Unlike the beautiful sunny weather we were blessed with at the June trial, this event was beset with dark overcast skies, somewhat chilly temperatures and off and on rain on Saturday. Overall lighting conditions were not the greatest for pictures so unfortunately the ones I shot did not come out as good as some of the June photos. Still, I managed to get some pretty cool shots, especially as I was focused around one of the ...
