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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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