Equestrians will soon be able to get a little extreme in Rhea County as the Rhea County Fair Association will bring the 2013 Just Horsin' Around Extreme Challenge and Running Show to the Rhea County Fairgrounds on May 4.

"The Extreme Challenge is a competition for horse and rider with various types of obstacles to work through such as jumps, bridges, gates, backing through a pattern [and others]." Lorrie Horton, coordinator of the event for the Rhea County Fair Association, said.  "The Running Show is a timed event in which the horse and rider run a pattern such as the barrel racing pattern, pole bending which is a series of poles that they weave through and the arena race which is one barrel at the end of the arena and they have to run as fast as they can around the barrel and back to the stop timer."


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