Sheep racing by dide

Sheep racing

This is from the country sports day that we were at yesterday at a tiny coastal village called Marokopa (west of Waitomo). There was woodchopping, sack races, horse events, three legged races, king and queen of the mountain run and the sheep riding. The kids had to be under a certain weight and lasted on average 3 seconds before they rolled off onto the grass! The sheep were then loaded back onto the trailer and taken back to their usual grazing paddock.
He looks like he is hanging on pretty tight.... great pov
January 22nd, 2017  
Cool shot!. I've never seen sheep riding in the 19 years I've lived in NZ
January 22nd, 2017  
now that's an action shot with a difference!
January 22nd, 2017  
Cute
January 22nd, 2017  
looks like fun!
January 22nd, 2017  
What fun!!
January 22nd, 2017  
Sam
Sounds like you had a great day!
January 22nd, 2017  
what a fun day. At least there's lots of wool to hang on to
January 22nd, 2017  
Super fun and great shot !
January 22nd, 2017  
So its true what they say about you Kiwis and sheep. :-(
January 22nd, 2017  
Great fun picture...
January 22nd, 2017  
Wow, he is one woolly sheep & the lad is hanging on so tightly.
January 22nd, 2017  
What fun for the children we did all the usual activities at our local village fate as children but never the wonderful sport of sheep riding, mind you would have loved to try it, our farm was crops and cereal not much livestock, its a great fun capture Dianne:)
January 22nd, 2017  
Fantastic action shot! Be nice to crop in to the sheep as much as possible to remove some of the background which is a little distracting, but such a good shot.
January 22nd, 2017  
What a wonderful fun, action shot.
January 22nd, 2017  
fantastic shot 😊 fav
January 22nd, 2017  
@photobird yes you're right about the background being distracting. The white sheeting was to stop the sheep going near the fence.
January 22nd, 2017  
This is amazing capture, truly amazing!
January 22nd, 2017  
Looks great fun.
January 22nd, 2017  
Great fun shot!

Ian
January 22nd, 2017  
What a fun capture :) terrific!
January 22nd, 2017  
Fun capture, that sheep looks like she's moving fast!
January 22nd, 2017  
Love it, love it, love it. Typical country kid.
January 22nd, 2017  
Wonderful capture. That is one well conditioned sheep !!
January 22nd, 2017  
This is hilarious!
January 23rd, 2017  
Wonderful shot!
January 23rd, 2017  
Cool action shot!!
January 23rd, 2017  
@golftragic yep - not a helmet or pair of shoes in sight!
January 23rd, 2017  
Brilliant.
January 23rd, 2017  
Great shot - it seems that bull running has nothing on this!
January 23rd, 2017  
@golftragic Hahaha. My kids tried riding our sheep, but not very successfully. No helmets but would've had shoes on with all the bindiis on the farm. They even punctured motor-bike tyres unless you put an extra sleeve inside the tyres.
January 24th, 2017  
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