PRESS RELEASE |\u00a0CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION<\/p>\n
(Nespelem, WA) \u2014 A number of horse racing teams associated with the Confederated \u00a0Tribes of the Colville Reservation participated this past weekend in the Championship of \u00a0Champions Indian Relay event in Casper, Wyoming. The Colville teams excelled at all \u00a0levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Abrahamson Relay team took the championship in the Men\u2019s Relay, making them \u00a0the champion of champions in this event. Arrow Lakes Express posted a strong result as \u00a0well, coming in second in the consolation round. Camp 6 took fifth place in Heat 5, \u00a0Thunderwolf Express enjoyed a 1st place finish in Heat 6, Grizzly Mountain finished third \u00a0in Heat 7, and Omak Express prevailed with first place in Heat 8. Stronghorse was \u00a0disqualified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the Women\u2019s Relay, Omak Express recorded a first place finish in Heat 1 while DTM \u00a0Express finished third in that heat. Stronghorse Relay claimed second place in Heat 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Camp 6 earned a second place showing in Heat 2 of the Youth Relay. In the Junior Relay, \u00a0Stronghorse brought Colville another championship with their win in the Championship \u00a0Heat. Smoke Ranch acquitted themselves well in the consolation heat with a third place \u00a0showing, while Thunderwolf Express was disqualified in Heat 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Chairman of the Colville Confederated Tribes, Jarred-Michael Erickson, said, \u201cI\u2019m \u00a0sure I speak for all of the Colville Tribes when I say I am incredibly proud of all of our \u00a0teams that competed in this great event. It\u2019s amazing to see two championship results in a \u00a0national tournament like this. I truly believe the Colville Tribes has the best horsemen \u00a0and horsewomen in the nation, period.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Chairman continued, \u201cMore importantly, all of our teams represented Colville very \u00a0well this weekend, like the warriors they all are. There may have been some setbacks, but \u00a0no one gave up. Every team can be proud of their competition in this event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE |\u00a0CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION (Nespelem, WA) \u2014 A number of horse racing teams associated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[50,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-154167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}