Relays & Riding Title Drama
The spectacle is every bit as good the second time around, although a miscue before the first heat of Friday night’s Indian relay racing shortened the field to three teams. A horse reared up while his rider attempted to mount and then disappeared into the gloaming of the overhead lights with an outrider in hot […]
Indian Relays Impress
This much is clear if you’ve ever ridden a horse. You probably can’t ride one, dismount one and literally jump on another with the nimbleness of a Blackfoot, a Sioux, a Sho-Ban or a Crow. Even these daredevils frequently overshoot their intended targets and wind up on the other side of a moving, rearing or […]
Indian Relay Racing on Tap
Outside, over 150 horses grazed under the watchful eye of White Man’s Dog… It seemed odd that two sleeps ago these horses were content to belong to the Crow. Now they were Pikuni (Blackfeet) horses and seemed equally content. -FOOLS CROW BY JAMES WELCH By some accounts, the first sport in the American West was […]
