The final round Blogger Contest entries are in, and we’re offering you the opportunity to weigh in on each article before we declare a victor. We posted two of the entries yesterday, and the final two entries go up today; a poll will go up on Thursday so you can vote for your favorite blogger.
Their Final Round Assignment: Much in the spirit of EN’s annual April Fool’s posts (see 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), your final round assignment is to brainstorm an original idea for a fake news story and then write it up as a post for EN, complete with some sort of visual imagery you create (photo, video, diagram, drawing, etc.). We stress that access to expensive camera equipment is unnecessary; see Wylie’s FEI pictograms for proof that imagination, at least in the context of this assignment, will be your most invaluable asset. Words and visuals will be judged 50/50 on the same basis as previous entries (Interesting, Funny, Informative, Creative).
Here’s Ella Rak’s final installment (for Ella’s previous entries, see Round 1, Round 2). Thanks for reading, Eventing Nation. Click here to read Rick Wallace’s final installment, here to read Erin Critz’s final installment, and here to read Sally Spickard’s final installment. Please leave feedback in the comments section.
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Bio: Ella Rak, 16, is a High School student, Aspiring Lower Level Eventer, C2 Pony Clubber and Equestrian-procrastinator extraordinare. Defining Characteristics: Strong willed, Easily distracted by horses (I should be studying for final exams right now, but instead cleaned tack and wrote this article), and slightly OCD (that record book WILL be perfect).
Entry:
Giddy Up Round Up
Equine News You Really Have No Use For
Lip Tattoos Not Only for Horses Anymore
Many animal owners tend to look like their horses, and eventers are known to be the grittiest of the bunch, but OTTB event owners have taken it a step further by adding their own personal twist to OTTB pride. You can dye your hair, match your clothes, even try to learn his language, but what better way to show your precious OTTB that you love him then to painfully inject your inner lip with the same tattoo he has?
Designer Horse Shoes Sweeping the Nation
Need an extra ‘hand’? New designer horse shoes are overtaking the event community, giving vertically challenged event ponies a leg up on the competition. Coming in many vibrant colors and half and whole hand increments, these shoes have taken eventing fashion to a whole new level, finally doing George Morris in. The only one who won’t love your horses’ new kicks is your vet!
Mass Stampede of Horses from Sweden
Horses all over Sweden are stampeding across the border after news of the IKEA meatball incident reached local barns. Visiting their NEIGH-bors all over Europe has created a major problem for the Swedish event team, and many of their top competitors have found themselves horseless, searching the EU for their mounts. Please help this community in dismay by donating to the Distressed InterNational Network for Equines Reunited fund at www.DINNERfund.com.
Horse Power takes on whole New Meaning
As eventers all over the country know, getting to competitions requires a rig, a rig requires gas, and gas requires money.
Nope, not ‘horse’- powered.
Poop-Power
Ford has taken this problem head on with its new prototype of a horse manure powered F-250. Powered solely from your horses poop, the “Crap-mobile” gets 100 miles a muck tub, though you may want to keep the windows up. With all the bells and whistles of the King Ranch PLUS manure disposal, what’s not to love?
