Flag Race

Flag race requires the rider to pick a flag up from one bucket, circle an end barrel and place the flag in the second bucket.

• Barrels will be set with the point barrel being ~ 126ft from the timer line and the side barrels being placed against the fence on each side 30ft from the timers.
• Flags will be a 1” diameter soft wood dowel 18 inches long, moderately sharpened to a tip on one end with a clear mark 3” up from the point and with an 8” x 9” cloth flag attached midway up the dowel to the opposite end (which has been gently rounded and sanded smooth).
• Buckets will be five gallon plastic buckets of any color, clearly marked at a level 3” from the top and filled to that 3” mark with masonry sand.
• Buckets shall be placed to the inside of the barrel.
• The arena crew will place the flag in the bucket to a 3” depth (marked on flag) before each run. The flag for pickup in Pony Flags and leadline flags (if offered) will be placed on the inside edge of the bucket, for all other classes the flag will be placed in the center of the bucket.
• Upon completion of the ride, barrels and buckets must be standing upright and flag must be inside the bucket to receive a time.
• Any flag sticking through the plastic of the bucket inside to outside is legal, outside to inside is not.
• Flag may be used as a whip.