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Hottest show you ever went to?; It was 112 this weekend
Topic Started: Jun 24 2008, 02:51 PM (675 Views)
gunnar
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Mr. gunnar went to an HT in Santa Ynez Valley in Central CA this weekend. It was 112 when he did his dressage test! :psycho: :mallet: :pissed: :argh: :censored: :shoot: This is an area where the temps are not that high! the day after the show is was 72 which is more normal! :cloud9:

We were shocked and overwhlemed by it all, particularly me who suffers when it is 80! I have never been so hot and if I had been showing I would have had to withdraw!

What is the hottest show you have ever been too?
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yeah, gunnar, but it's a "dry" heat!! :teehee: I'm sorry! I had to do it. :point:

Our shows are routinely 95+ degrees during the summer with 80% humidity. They rarely require jackets. Heat index of combined humidity + heat usually puts us around 106. :oops:
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Jun 24 2008, 02:54 PM
yeah, gunnar, but it's a "dry" heat!! :teehee: I'm sorry! I had to do it. :point:

Our shows are routinely 95+ degrees during the summer with 80% humidity. They rarely require jackets.
It was not even that dry let me add! There was little or no shade, no power for fans, no bathing your horses with the hose (well water don't you know!) etc. I was more miserable than I have ever been in my life! Spent quite a few hours at my Motel, freezing to death with the air on high!
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That is brutal!

I think my hottest was this year at Upperville. It was somewhere around 100 degrees and unimaginably humid. I was there with a 4 year old child and a 7 year old. The 4 year old was not a happy camper. She rode home in the car in her underwear. Then she was happy.
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It was HOT, HOT, HOT this weekend all over the Central Coast. I don't envy you all having to ride in that. But...Santa Ynez is regularly in the 90s during the day in the summer. The nights usually cool off to the 70s.

I know last year, the June Shepherd Ranch had heat over 100 with no wind. And of course about 2 trees for shade, both in the middle of the XC course. :o The August one was MUCH nicer and was upper 80s and a breeze.
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I did one that was 107 with 80+ % humidity. It was unbearable -- people were hosing their horses the second they came out of the ring for the last time, and I think the average was about 10 horses under each tree.
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Saturday at Upperville this year.

Wearing melton wool, a hunting vest, stock tie, and veil in 100+ degree weather = NO FUN. :psycho:
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Witchy
Jun 24 2008, 03:04 PM
That is brutal!

I think my hottest was this year at Upperville. It was somewhere around 100 degrees and unimaginably humid. I was there with a 4 year old child and a 7 year old. The 4 year old was not a happy camper. She rode home in the car in her underwear. Then she was happy.
:teehee: :teehee:


I think the hottest I've done is 100 degrees with humidity :spew: :spew:
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Jun 24 2008, 03:10 PM
I did one that was 107 with 80+ % humidity. It was unbearable -- people were hosing their horses the second they came out of the ring for the last time, and I think the average was about 10 horses under each tree.
On XC day they had ice water in huge buckets before and after the course. It was odd when Al and Rosie were finished, multitudes of people came running with cold compresses, baggies full of ice and they even sponged off Rosie while someone held her. The show management did a great job of trying to keep eveyone cool!

At least they waved coats! Al did wear his coat for Sj but he is a traditonalist don't you know! :teehee: The shade was out on the XC course so on Sunday we placed our chairs in the shade and enjoyed the breeze at least!

It was godammed awful and not something I will ever participate in again! If I had to get Rosie ready one more time I would scream. She lives in the full sun where it is regularly in the high 90s so she recovered quickly! :rose:
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At lamplight last year where it was 97 with a heat index of 105. The humity was off the charts. The best place to be on the show grounds was the air conditioned portapotties.... I hate to say but if it were not for those portapotties I think we would have melted away!!! :jaw:
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Jun 24 2008, 03:56 PM
At lamplight last year where it was 97 with a heat index of 105. The humity was off the charts. The best place to be on the show grounds was the air conditioned portapotties.... I hate to say but if it were not for those portapotties I think we would have melted away!!! :jaw:
I would have loved an air conditioned potty! One thing about the portable toilets is they are so hot that when you come out the air seems so much cooler! :innocent:
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Oh boy, it had to be Culpepper. Summer of, I am guessing, 2001-2002? I saw spots in front of my eyeballs on the third round, the fourth I could see nothing, and thank God for my dear Lily who carried this limp piece of sack cloth around. Legless and even my fingers couldn't hold the reins. It was over 100, and a number of far better riders than I were passing out/falling off. :argh:
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Jun 24 2008, 03:56 PM
At lamplight last year where it was 97 with a heat index of 105. The humity was off the charts. The best place to be on the show grounds was the air conditioned portapotties.... I hate to say but if it were not for those portapotties I think we would have melted away!!! :jaw:
Ew - I was in the area around that time... Had forgotten about the poor souls who had to do more than walk in that nastiness. :jaw:
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Upperville was hot this year. :sigh: SE shows in general, in the summer, ick with the humidity.

But from my memory pan, a show in CA, Calistoga, maybe 1998, heat hit 120 and we had misters going full stop - coats optional, ring sprayed down every 30 minutes. Even the bugs and birds stopped flying it was so warm :o
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Arabian show at Culpeper a couple of weeks ago! 100 degrees and HUMID! When we arrived they informed us there was no power so no water! It did come back on a couple of hours later so we did stay to show! We show sport horse in hand as well as working hunters and running on the triangle was like running through thick cotton the air was so dense! During the working hunters the judge INSISTED everyone remove their coats and she worked the under saddles witht he minimum she could get a way with-thank goodness no endless times around the ring at all three gaits! She also had us leave the ring and go get water and stand in the shade while she decided the under saddle placings instead of having us wait in the middle of the ring!
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