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Two Ride in One Day



In the  mid-1980's (can't remember the year), I attempted to ride two rides 
in one day.  This is how it worked. Courtney Hart was putting on a 100 mile 
ride that started at midnight. Four miles from  this start location, another 
ride, a 50 miler, was starting at 6 a.m. I do not recall, but Courtney may 
have been managing this ride as well.  So I climbed on one horses at 
midnight. Rode him 50 miles, handed him to a friend and raced to the other 
ride and made the 6 a.m. start and climbed on another horse.  I completed 
that 50 mile ride in about 7 hours total elapsed time.  I handed the horse to 
Bob to care for, raced back to the first horse who had now had over seven 
hours of rest. I attempted to do the last half of the 100 mile ride on him. 
(I still had 10 to 11 hours left to do the last 50.)  Unfortunately, the 
first horse that started at midnight had dumped me on the ground in the dark 
twice. (It was foggy and spooky up in the Almaden Hills.)  When I started on 
the last lap with him, he dumped me two more times and I decided discretion 
was the better part of valor, not to mention that I was holding up a bunch of 
ride personnel and vets who had to wait for me long after all the other 100 
mile riders had passed through. There was no such thing as cut-off times in 
those days. It was shortly after that that an AERC rule was made that you 
could only ride one sanctioned ride in one day.  I always regretted that I 
did not continue on, just hung on a little tighter.  It was a perfectly 
feasible undertaking and no rule were being broken.  Unfortunately, the 100 
mile horse was too quick and agile for me to stay topside for more than a 
couple of miles at a time.  Julie Suhr



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