Beat The Weather

Some photo's of Saturday's Eureka trip. There's a different brand of excitement it seems, every trip. Saturday it was the weather. "Isolated thunderstorms" on Accuweather became "scattered thunderstorms" by noon with 40% rain chances. It's do or die this year for the stable, so we took off anyway, the thinking being that it would be dry in Eureka. Turned out it was, and we had some nice works.

For us rider weight is big. Nob is 6 foot 1.5 inches. Put him on the scale before we left. I'm relieved it's below 160 lbs.

We were driving into this on I-35 30 miles from Emporia. Thinking about turning around at this point.

Then this, but, straight ahead.

Barn R as we arrive. It's clear to the Southwest.

Rain threatened from 7 p.m. to dark.

Zero humans and very few horses. Eureka is mostly abandoned now. Had to take my own photos, and you can see, I've yet to master the art of camera work while on a fidgety horse. Photo shows track entry point, and you can a little see the track condition which was tight, hard and fast after the rain. Grandstand is down on the right.