![]() For those of us sitting on the outside looking in, it seems a lot more like chaos than anything else (here’s an entertaining look at the riders you’ll meet in the barrel pen). Between the riders doing their best to sit their broncs, the children galloping full speed on their ponies, those running mini patterns in the middle of the arena and the rider actually trying to warm up her horse in the midst of it all, navigating the pen may seem like war … or maybe even a dog fight.Īs you ride your horse around the warm-up pen, eyeing up these other competitors, so many thoughts go through your head. ![]() As those lines have been replaying themselves in my head, I’ve realized that so many of the things that Maverick, Goose and the other characters say could easily double for thoughts that go through your head when you’re riding in the warm-up pen before a barrel race.īarrel racing warm-up pens aren’t exactly known for their adherence to riding etiquette. ![]() I would also be lying if I said I didn’t know most of the lines of the movie by heart (again, I was a child of the 80s - we didn’t have the internet, we just rewatched the same VHS tapes on our VCRs). With the trailer of Top Gun: Maverick flying around the internet (see what I did there?), the 80s kid in me is getting nostalgic for the original Top Gun. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the most complicated plot line and the character arcs weren’t really, well, arcs, but I would 100% be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy singing along to Tom Cruise’s and Anthony Edwards’s rendition of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.” ![]() It’s a good thing fellow riders can’t hear your thoughts, or they might hear these quotes from Top Gun as you’re warming up for your next barrel race. ![]()
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