4 horses, a Chuckwagon, standing start facing the wrong way around the track, do a figure 8 turning around a couple of barrels and then complete the ½ mile race in 1 minute and 14 seconds.  Sound exciting enough?  Add 4 teams running the race at the same time.  That’s excitement.  Yes, they are thoroughbreds much like the better known ones that race at Churchill Downs etc.; but these are also trained to run as a team pulling a chuckwagon.  For some of the classes they add two out-riders per team.  The outriders must load a water bucket into the Chuckwagon after the start, mount their horse, then join the race to the finish line.  If they don’t catch up by the finish their team is penalized time for each late rider.  More than one chuckwagon team outran their rider and was penalized.

Pony carts.  Kids under 16 ride a wagon or chariot behind pony teams of either 2 or 4 ponies.  Little hooves were just a-flying.