Hilton Head U Savannah Equestrian Exposition

BARREL RACING. This sport involves the horse and rider to negotiate a course containing a pattern of barrels. The horse and rider with the fastest time completing the designated course is the winner.
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DRESSAGE. This discipline displays the ability of the horse and rider to execute a given ride together. It will show difficult and complicated movements and the horse’s willingness and response to the rider without resistance.

HUNTER/JUMPERS. This discipline involves jumps that might be found in a natural hunting country and display the horse’s conformation, soundness and performance.
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SADDLE SEAT. This discipline displays seating and posture that most comfortably joins rider and horse to enable them to move nearly like one living body.

CARRIAGE DRIVING. This event requires hitching a horse to a vehicle [two or four wheels] and a driver that can use his hands, voice and sometimes a whip to control the horse and vehicle.

DASH FOR CASH RACES. There will be several horse races covering approximately a quarter of a mile.

DRAG FOX HUNT. This sport features specially bred and trained hounds who follow and chase a scent dragged on the ground by a horseman prior to the hunt. The horses and riders pursue the fox’s scent via the most direct route jumping any obstacles in their way.

RAINBOW PARADE OF HORSES. This event features a display of various breeds of horses and riders.

EXHIBITION POLO MATCH. Polo, the oldest of team sports, also known as the “Sport of Kings,” will be played in a four-chukker fast paced match featuring American and International players.
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