What Is A Rubber Check Race

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What is a rubber check race.

Scotts bluff county rubber check race mitchell nebraska. The race begins with one competitor on a horse racing around the arena twice before handing a baton to his teammate on an all terrain vehicle. During his leg of the race brunsch and other racers had to spin. Chase brunsch spins around a baseball bat during the dawes county fair rubber check race at the dawes county fairgrounds thursday.

The rubber check race is a fast paced timed relay where teams go head to head in order to get the rubber check across the finish. It s not the standard relay race as this one involves two horses a four wheeler a wheelbarrow and four team members. 1st scotts bluff county is home of one of the most unique relay races around the rubber check race. In past years averages of 13 to 15 teams have entered the event.

Two bit ranch takes the rubber check race championship title for the third year in a row. Scottsbluff county fair rubber check race august 2 2017. The rubber check race takes place in august in the grandstand at the scotts bluff county fair in mitchell. Scotts bluff county fairgrounds.

A durometer is a tool specifically designed to determine the hardness of the rubber compound a tire is constructed from. Teams consist of 2 horses 1 four wheeler and a wheel borrow. Jake engelman wheels jacob boucher over the finish line during the rubber check race at the chaffee county fair thursday. It started in the 80s when the ag economy was in really bad.

Cox said the rubber check race comes from a time when the agricultural community was trying to make the best of a bad situation.