Equine Affaire National Anthem Gone Horribly Wrong!

This is like 2(?) weeks old but i'm finally digging through all my footage from equine affair and trying to get it up :) so...
Recently my mom and I attended the Equine Affaire @ the Pomona Fairplex :D We had an awesome time and I highly recommend attending to any horse lover! Anyway, this was from the final event we saw, the Extreme Cowboy Races. They opened the "show" with the USMC color guard riding their traditional mustangs around the ring to a song by Johnny Cash. This was followed by the national anthem. It was a disaster waiting to happen from the start - when the four horses were standing at the entrance and were introduced, the crowd burst into applause - causing one of the horses to rear, rotate on it haunches into the horses waiting behind it, and bolt. This obviously made the horses unsettled but they were able to maintain composure as they walked around the arena. When it was time for them to stand still and be pretty during the anthem, however, they had their own plans. This video is just the tail end of it when I thought to turn on the camera, but pretty much reflects how the whole thing went down. Enjoy :D

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• national
• anthem
• military
• color
• guard
• USMC
• mustang
• wild
• crazy
• US
• flag
• Equine
• Affaire
• horse
• rear

[Renagad05]

At lest they held it together I'll hand them that much. But hey horses have bad days too. What ya gana do?

[USNBRAT91]

I agree 100%! There are some time that a horse is just going to do what they want to do and all you can do is hold on hahah. I think the riders handled it well!

[westerncowgirlsrule]

oh jezz, I went a few years ago, to pomona, I really liked it there I saw a few really good trainers, and I ever saw monty roberts in person! that was really cool, but man I raly felt bad for him, when my mom went up to him for her to sing one of his books he looks really really tired, he looked like he needed a bed and a good pillow

[USNBRAT91]

yeah this was the first time they actually had the equine affaire in socal so of course i insisted on going haha. the trainers that took part in the affaire were amazing - and i saw like a million jumpers clinics haha

[westerncowgirlsrule]

oh that really cool! I felt bad for the guys thoe

[USNBRAT91]

hehe yeah but luckily they were able to stay on :D

[westerncowgirlsrule]

ya, gald they all stayed on and were all ok

[USNBRAT91]

oh hahah i see :) yeah well earlier in the day i saw some very beautiful breed exhibits with so many different cool breeds :D and the cowboy races that followed right after this video were VERY exciting :D

[HondaThoru]

I read it i was just talking in general.

[USNBRAT91]

Hehe idk if you saw the description but this was not really the "show". It was supposed to be the national anthem ceremony before the show and the horses were supposes to stay quite still :P I admit it was pretty cool though haha.