Joan wasn't paying attention!

[Karen <karen@storallnv.com>]

At 02:27 PM 08/01/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>I am resubmitting this because I feel in all the 40 days Carol was "nearly"
>never mentioned, and certainly she and her horse were Never named.

I am certain that I mentioned Carol and Sunny. (his name isn't Sammy).  His 
AERC name is Energizer, and I'm sure I mentioned them completing the most 
days throughout the entire ride (I think it was 33 but I am not certain) -- 
I have put up several photos, at least a dozen or more of Carol and Sunny 
taken during the XP ride. www.endurohorse.com  Carol even told me that 
friends of hers saw them!   (he was named Sunny Day because it was a sunny 
day when he was born)   It's kind of hard to highlight just one person when 
there were so many great horses and achievements.  There were more horses 
there that did more than most of the previous national champions in the 
entire history of the AERC.  There were 40 or 50 horses that did over 500 
miles at the ride.  There are a lot of others that I probably did not 
mention, or talk about enough -- most of us there who were riding every day 
were pretty busy taking care of our own business and it wasn't that easy to 
keep tabs on everybody.  There were something like 63 riders who were with 
the ride the entire time.  I don't know how many days John Parke rode 
Skoldjur, but it was also a lot.  Zane did at least 1,000 AERC miles on the 
ride and got quite a few BC's. Most riders went with the intention of 
riding the trail and never tried to do the most miles on one horse.  So to 
those of us who were there, it sounds kind of funny to hear something as 
far out as "can you believe that the horse that did the most miles wasn't 
an Arab".  The horses that carried the riders the most miles on the ride 
WERE Arabs.....it's like comparing apples to hot dogs.

I have more photos to upload -- I've got the finish at Virginia City, the 
parade ...the horses in the arena (there were probably 200 horses), and the 
awards brunch.  I've got a good photo of the saddle Annie George made and 
that was awarded to Carol.

k