![]() ![]() He is so solid and makes the same pattern every time, so it wasn’t surprising that he could do that. I couldn’t have turned that barrel that good if I would’ve been on him. “He was in perfect position to turn the second barrel. “I was on the ground, and I was just starting to look up,” Martin says. What made this particular riderless run so astonishing is that Eyemora not only completed the pattern he did so with exceptional style and perfect timing. ![]() No matter what, the horse just has to get gritty and keep on going.” ![]() It just shows the repetition and time that was put into this horse. I’d love to take credit for it, but Virginia is a phenomenal trainer. That says a lot for the foundation instilled in that horse. “It takes a special horse to get up and not give up. “I’ve seen it happen one other time, up in Oklahoma City, but I’ve never had it happen to a horse I was riding,” he says. He says he’s seen a situation similar to this one happen only once before. He turned the third barrel and ran for home leaving Martin in the dust, quite literally. Martin is 33 years old and has been training horses since he was in high school. Not only did Eyemora turn the second barrel, he kept on going. He ran off to the second barrel and turned it like he was going to finish the run.” My foot got hung up in the stirrup, but luckily it came undone. ![]() When I got to the first barrel, I just tripped him up. I switched bridles before, and I had just too much bridle on him. “I’d just gotten him back to start riding him, and I entered him in the barrel racing at the Reichert. I sold him to his current owners, Bobby and Denny Ralls of Weatherford, Texas.” “Eyemora is a 13-year-old gelding that was trained by Virginia Evans of Nebraska,” Martin says. We had the chance to chat with Eyemora’s missing rider, Chris Martin, to uncover the backstory behind this intriguing photo that was captured by Shane Rux Photography. But at the first annual Dash For The Cash Barrel Racing event at the 2013 Reichert Celebration over the weekend, there was one thing missing… a rider. The striking 13-year-old gelding named Eyemora has all of the ingredients needed to lay down a perfect barrel racing pattern: impressive speed, uncanny agility, spot-on timing, precision turning, and quick reflexes. Aug| Filed under: Uncategorized | Posted by: ![]()
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