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United States Pony Clubs
4041 Iron Works Parkway
Lexington, KY 40511-8462
Phone:  (859) 254-7669
Fax:  (859) 233-4652

Spillers Pole Race

Skills Needed:  Pick-up vaulting and handoff skills.

Equipment Required:

  • One Bending Pole
  • Eight Lettered Cylinders made of 2” PVC pipe, 6’’ long.  Each cylinder will have one of the letters from the word SPILLERS repeated 3 times on the surface.

Game Setup:

Three yards beyond the changeover line there will be seven lettered cylinders, with letters P,I,L,L,E,R and S, lined up in any order perpendicular to the changeover line.  A bending pole (the Spillers Pole) will be on the Center line of the arena.  Rider number one will begin with a cylinder lettered “S”.


Game Play:

On the signal to start, rider number one will ride forward to the Spiller’s pole (bending pole) and slot the cylinder over the pole.  Rider one continues to the far end, dismounts and collects the letter “R”.  He/she remounts and returns to the center where he/she slots the “R” onto the pole.  He/she then returns to the far end, dismounts and collects carton “E”, remounts and rides to the start/finish line to hand cylinder “E” to rider two.  Rider numbers three and four repeat the process until the word “SPILLERS” can be read from the top to the bottom of the pole.  Rider four slots the final “S” over the pole on his/her way back and crosses the finish line.  The winning team will be the one whose rider four is first over the finish line, with the word “SPILLERS” spelled correctly from the top to the bottom of the pole. 


Correction rules:

  • Cylinders placed in the wrong order, or with the letter upside down, must be corrected by the rider who placed the cylinder incorrectly. 


Special Tips:

  • Unlike a mug in Three-Mug or Mug Shuffle Race, the cylinders used in the Spillers Race are longer and have a narrower central hole. This makes them more difficult to place on the end of the pole; this should be practiced with more precision and less speed than the aforementioned races.



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