Re: First endurance ride (was Whatever)

["Tamara Jane Habberley" <tamarahabberley@lineone.net>]

Can I join in please?

My first official ride was a pleasure ride at Shobdon near Ludlow in the
Uk - wonderful countryside all green and rolling hills. felt like I'd riden
to Mars and it was only 15 miles!

Only race ride was a 40 last year in Sherwood Forest ( Robin Hoods old
haunt) . Never been so scared in my life , I waited for every one else to
disapper form view , my trotting cob took of with me at a flat out gallop
and we ended up in front at a gallop for the first 14 miles or so til he
burnt out...

never have scarey animal stories over here though, nearest I'v got is my
horse squashing an adder on one ride ( mortified, their an endagered breed
of snake here, and we only have two speacies in the Uk) and spoking at a
nice roe deer on a ride. Mayebe some one couldmake a fortune from Rent a
Ride a gaitor in the uk!


Tamara

----- Original Message -----
From: Roberta Jo Lieberman <woik@home.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:27 PM
Subject: RC: First endurance ride (was Whatever)


> Shyodu@aol.com wrote:
> >Does everyone remember their first ride?<
>
> It was 1978 -- the Old Dominion 50 when it was still held in Leesburg,
> Va. I rode a borrowed horse named "Z" with a friend, Debbie Waskow, who
> was riding her stallion, Mr. B. About 20 miles into the ride, we
> encountered a snapping turtle that dove at our horses' fetlocks. We
> narrowly escaped that hazard, only to meet a local stallion running free
> and coming right at us. Fortunately, Debbie's stallion was very
> well-schooled and she always carried a long whip to ward off intruders.
> We hustled toward a stream, and I remember flinging Z's gray body in
> between the stallion and Mr. B. We raced up the bank and took off, and
> the stallion didn't pursue us. Mr. B was slightly off at the next check
> and stopped for the day, and Z reluctantly went on without his
> buddy...Got done in time to see Larry Kanavy winning the 100 on the
> Quarter Horse Charge Cindy and Valerie and Winkie Mackay-Smith racing in
> for second.
>
> In those early days, our tack broke a lot. The following year, on the
> Firecracker 50 in Punxatawney, PA, I was riding my first endurance
> horse, Rushcreek Ingrid, in a McLellan saddle <ouch!>. About halfway
> through, a stirrup leather broke. In 1981, on our way to a third place
> finish on the Vermont 100, one of the stirrup bars on my English saddle
> collapsed.
>
> It's interesting to look back at the old photos and see how little gear
> most folks carried back then -- and somehow we made it around!
>
> Get us around a campfire and we'll reminisce all night long...;)
>
> Bobbie
>
>
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