last night.....

Last night was our annual rotary rodeo here in our home town. I was runner #7 in the barrel racing. I usually don't watch the other runners for I'm so nervous before I compete. My neice was 3 runners ahead of me and I do watch her. She had a nice run going until she got to the second barrel, her mare decided to duck on that second but Sam stopped her and got her going in the right direction and whipped all the way thru the pattern, she ended up with a no-time for breaking the pattern. I have been having trouble with Dass running up the wall with me on the first so when I got to the first barrel, I sat down on her and jerked and jerked way too much for we knocked it over. I then knew I really had to make up some time for I just got a 5 second penality, the second barrel was good, then the 3rd, yup I got it too. So...I had another 5 second penality added. I would have had a time of 14,8 but after my penalities it was 24.8. I got told that if I hadn't hit those barrels I would have been in the money. GEE, thanks, that was just what I wanted to hear after running in front of my home town and knocking 2 barrels over. But you know, it happens, it doesn't matter who you are or what you are running , hitting barrels is something that happens. I do know that out of 13 runners last night there was more that hit barrels than those who left them standing. The times of those runners who left them standing was a good 2 seconds or more than what mine would have been. Right now, Brian is sitting in 2nd in bull riding. He scored a 73 only 3 bull riders was able to make it to the whistle. There was some good bulls there. I guess tonight will tell the score on whether Brian is still in the money. They will combine last night and tonight to see who places. I really dislike the 2 night rodeos. For you can only ride one night out of the two. Oh well.....I had fun and my mare was running for me last night, I was the problem.