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SEC Equestrian championship...........
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:48 pm
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Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:51 pm to AginAL
8-4 team ranked ahead of 10-2, that makes sense, Auburn is hosting the championship. Home field advantage bishes
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:54 pm to AginAL
How many SEC schools have Equestrian teams?
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:56 pm to Aman
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How many SEC schools have Equestrian teams?
4
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:56 pm to Aman
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How many SEC schools have Equestrian teams?
Very very few. We don't even have a team that's not at the club level, and Lexington is horse country.
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:57 pm to AginAL
Thanks.. I guess it would have helped if I read the title of the article.
Posted on 3/29/13 at 1:58 pm to AginAL
What does the winner get? Carrots, apples, and oats?
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:01 pm to AginAL
This seems like a "sport" that would take a lot of money from an athletic budget? I mean no revenue and all that is required to care for horses and transport them. I'm surprised 4 schools have a team.
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:04 pm to Aman
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I mean no revenue and all that is required to care for horses and transport them.
I dont believe they transport them, they use the home field horses. Alot of the horses are privatly owned as well
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:04 pm to NYCAuburn
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8-4 team ranked ahead of 10-2, that makes sense, Auburn is hosting the championship. Home field advantage bishes
I don't pretend to know how they score this, but maybe it is like gymnastics where the rankings are based on avg score. A team could be 2-5 and be #3 in the country if they had a hard schedule and scored well often enough.
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:06 pm to NYCAuburn
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I dont believe they transport them, they use the home field horses. Alot of the horses are privatly owned as well
How does that work? Don't riders get familiar with their own horses? it makes sense that a lot of them are privately owned and cared for.
This post was edited on 3/29/13 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:11 pm to Aman
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How does that work? Don't riders get familiar with their own horses?
The contest is about the riders not the horses, so they want an equal playing field and not one where the horses and rider have trained together. I might be explaining it wrong, but I believe that is the reasoning
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:13 pm to DaleDenton
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What does the winner get? Carrots, apples, and oats
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:13 pm to NYCAuburn
Are the judges from Birmingham?
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:15 pm to NYCAuburn
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The contest is about the riders not the horses, so they want an equal playing field and not one where the horses and rider have trained together. I might be explaining it wrong, but I believe that is the reasoning
That's correct.
There are 4 areas of competition:
Equitation on the Flats
Equitation over Fences (jumping gates)
Horsemanship
Reining
The jumping is obvious. Truthfully, the other 3 to me sound like different forms of dressage, so a horse person would know more. I know there are 5 riders from each school in each event. 1 rider from each school rides the same horse, highest score from judges wins a point. There are a total of 20 points up for grabs.
Currently in first round play:
#1 Auburn leads #4 Texas A&M 6-4 after Fences and Horsemanship
#2 USC leads #3 UGA 5-3 after the same competition. (Less points here because there were 2 ties.)
Posted on 3/29/13 at 2:24 pm to NYCAuburn
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NYCAuburn
This man has it.
There's probably a bit of luck to it if you happen to draw a particuarly well trained horse.
Posted on 3/29/13 at 4:03 pm to AubieALUMdvm
USC d. UGA 10-7
Auburn d. A&M 10-9.
Tomorrow USC and auburn will compete for the SEC championship while UGA and A&M compete for 3rd.
Auburn d. A&M 10-9.
Tomorrow USC and auburn will compete for the SEC championship while UGA and A&M compete for 3rd.
This post was edited on 3/29/13 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 3/29/13 at 5:25 pm to FarmersFight
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Auburn d. A&M 10-9.
Finally we are not last!!!
Posted on 3/29/13 at 5:30 pm to AginAL
#big4
Posted on 3/29/13 at 6:06 pm to FarmersFight
I've never understood why UK doesn't get into this. Seeing the elements of competition probably tells the tale, though. I assumed it was traditional three day eventing, with dressage, stadium jumping, and cross country. No one around here knew what reining was until Lexington hosted the World Equestrian Games in 2010.
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