{"id":649,"date":"2012-02-20T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2012-03-02T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:17:23","slug":"saratoga-cutter-races-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Saratoga Cutter Races 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to our friend DJ Anderson for keeping us informed with great events from Saratoga! The annual cutter races were held this past weekend…it’s always a great time! \u00a0More info from DJ on cutter racing and some images from this year’s and last year’s event follow…thanks to our friends for keeping us plugged in to great Wyoming information!<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em>DJ Anderson sent us this information from Star Valley: \u00a0Cutter racing had its start in the late 1930’s with two milk wagons barreling away from the Freedom Cheese Factory in a mad dash to see who had the faster team. \u00a0This impromptu sport progressed when they dropped the wagon and ran with the front bob to get the faster time. \u00a0Cutters became popular during the winter and they began starting races using the ‘Lay 7 Tap’ method. \u00a0Cutters with tracks were popular until the 1960’s when wheeled chariots became common with the advent of dirt tracks (vs. the maintenance-intensive snow track). Cutter races were held in many different towns and the track might be the main street, a field or anywhere a track could be marked out. \u00a0Starting gates were scarce and were moved from track to track. \u00a0For many years, Thayne, WY hosted the cutter races in Star Valley with the gairgrounds in Afton being an alternate race location. \u00a0Thayne was known as the home of cutter racing and in 1948 The Racing Club was chartered. \u00a0In 1994, thanks to the support of the public and local businesses, the best track int he state of Wyoming is located in Afton. \u00a0It is a snow track which is rpetty uncommon now — the races do use wheeled chariots but the track provides a beautiful backdrop. \u00a0One can also get better photos than mud flying from a dirt track!<\/p>\n

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<\/em>Learn more about cutter racing in Wyoming via the Wyoming Tourism website<\/a>, Star Valley Chariot Racing on Facebook<\/a>, or the Carbon County tourism website!<\/a>\u00a0Thanks to DJ Anderson for passing along this great information and photos!<\/p>\n

‘Til Next Time…<\/p>\n

Kati Hime, Editor<\/p>\n

editor@wyolifestyle.com<\/p>\n

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LINK TO OUR WEBSITE: \u00a0www.wyolifestyle.com Our Sister Publications: \u00a0Wyoming Weddings — www.wyoweddings.com \u00a0Wyovore — www.wyovore.com \u00a0WYO XY —\u00a0http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/WYOXY\/index.html Image by Reumade Images Thanks to our friend DJ Anderson for keeping us informed with great events from Saratoga! The annual cutter races were held this past weekend…it’s always a great time! \u00a0More info from DJ on cutter racing and some images from this year’s and last year’s event follow…thanks to our friends for keeping us plugged in to great Wyoming information! Image by Reumade Images DJ Anderson sent us this information from Star Valley: \u00a0Cutter racing had its start in the late 1930’s with two milk wagons barreling away from the Freedom Cheese Factory in a mad dash to see who had the faster team. \u00a0This impromptu sport progressed when they dropped the wagon and ran with the front bob to get the faster time. \u00a0Cutters became popular during the winter and they began starting races using the ‘Lay 7 Tap’ method. \u00a0Cutters with tracks were popular until the 1960’s when wheeled chariots became common with the advent of dirt tracks (vs. the maintenance-intensive snow track). Cutter races were held in many different towns and the track might be the main street, a field or anywhere a track could be marked out. \u00a0Starting gates were scarce and were moved from track to track. \u00a0For many years, Thayne, WY hosted the cutter races in Star Valley with the gairgrounds in Afton being an alternate race location. \u00a0Thayne was known as the home of cutter racing and in 1948 The Racing Club was chartered. \u00a0In 1994, thanks to the support of the public and local businesses, the best track int he state of Wyoming is located in Afton. \u00a0It is a snow track which is rpetty uncommon now — the races do use wheeled chariots but the track provides a beautiful backdrop. \u00a0One can also get better photos than mud flying from a dirt track! Image by Reumade Images Learn more about cutter racing in Wyoming via the Wyoming Tourism website, Star Valley Chariot Racing on Facebook, or the Carbon County tourism website!\u00a0Thanks to DJ Anderson for passing along this great information and photos! ‘Til Next Time… Kati Hime, Editor editor@wyolifestyle.com LINK TO OUR WEBSITE: \u00a0www.wyolifestyle.com Our Sister Publications: \u00a0Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine — www.wyolifestyle.com \u00a0Wyovore — www.wyovore.com \u00a0WYO XY —\u00a0http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/WYOXY\/index.html  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,118],"tags":[306,305,302,103,102,303,307,193,304,38,181,37,64,1538,16,104],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wy-people","category-wyoming-travel-and-tourism","tag-saratoga","tag-star-valley","tag-thayne","tag-www-wyolifestyle-com","tag-www-wyovore-com","tag-wy","tag-wy-cutter-races","tag-wyo-xy","tag-wyoming-cutter-races","tag-wyoming-exploration","tag-wyoming-family-activities","tag-wyoming-lifestyle","tag-wyoming-lifestyle-magazine","tag-wyoming-outdoors","tag-wyoming-weddings","tag-wyovore"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wyolifestyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}