Living out a dream on horseback
8:59 p.m. Thursday, September 11, 2008
"When I was young, I rode in rodeos…and I've done a lot of things," Sandi Miller said.
But never this. The California native is prepping her horse to strut her stuff at one venue they've never been able to make it to.
"We were coming here just to go trail riding and I happened to be during the state fair and I said to my friend, 'Let me get them on the phone and see if there's a chance I could get into something'," Miller said.
As it turns out, there was a good chance. The 72 year-old horse lover will be making a dream a reality this year.
"I lived in Kansas and I showed at the Collisium and those places and all over but I always wanted to show in Hutchinson and this was the only chance I was probably going to get," she said.
Sandi will compete in two different racing events, but says it's more about doing something she wants to do than about winning. In fact she hasn't even ridden her horse in three months because it was hurt.
" I don't even know if she can run to be honest at this point but she tries…she tries," Miller said.
So while they aren't the youngest or the fastest team in the arena, it would be tough to find anyone more excited than these two.
"She might not win but she'll look good."
Miller says if you asked her 30 years ago if she'd be racing here at age 72, she would have said you were crazy.
Miller got second and fourth in poles and says, overall, she did pretty well because she's never barrel-raced before.
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