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Opening with an electric guitar version of “The Star Spangled Banner” this years Kingsburg Swedish Festival Dala Horse Trot was held under much better conditions compared to the year prior. This years Dala Horse Trot competitors were blessed with a run held within the city limits and under mostly shaded streets.
Photographs of many finishing their race, 2 k walk, 2k run, or 10k run can be found here.
(Please note that photographs are sorted in the order of completion of the race.)
I attended again this year as an observer and took …
Having been on the road for the past couple of weeks I hadn’t been around our house much during daylight hours and had not seen our neighbors riding through the neighborhood on the horses. I love living in an area that still allows horses to go down the streets, it feels so much like countryside right here in the middle of Visalia.
Photographs taken at the Kingsburg Dala Horse Trot can be found here.
For those of you that were actually able to run in the Kingsburg Dala Horse Trot, one of the many events in the 44th annual traditional Kingsburg Swedish Festival, congratulations on even feeling up to competing in the run/walk race. I attended mostly as an observer but felt compelled to share the photographs with those that may have competed.
In just a short time I learned so many things about riding a horse that I had never know. First was how much care horses need. Horses need to have their hooves cleaned as often as possible and require correct bedding be available for their stabling and would prefer sand for their corral. Pictured here the horse is having it’s hooves cleaned, which revealed some sticks and rocks stuck from the morning rain and lack of daily care. Just like any person who would get ready to run a marathon …