Re: Fwd: RE: Fwd: RC: Re: Gauteng 100 Miler Live on the Internet

["Celeste Murray" <celestem@badgermining.co.za>]

Hi Hope

There are no elephants at this venue it is mainly a lion and rhino reserve,
with many antelope species, ostriches , hippo's and I heard that giraffes
have been added recently.
Our horses do not have any special training, most of us train on good old
farm land and sand roads, many horses never see cows or donkeys other than
at rides and they most definitely do not grow up with the wild animals :-)
other than snakes and field mice perhaps :-). I guess us endurance riders
are just plain dumb enough to load our horses into the trailer and pitch at
the ride :-), my mare has seen a bush and a kudu (antelope type) at another
ride that we do in a game reserve, and well, we slammed on brakes for the
pig and she wouldn't budge until the pig ran off and well the kudu did help
us do that leg in our fastest time ever :-) as she took off like a bat out
of hell when it jumped across the path behind us!!!! <vbg> strangely enough
she didn't worry at all about the baboons leaping across the trail near the
finish, although I don't know if the fact that it WAS the finish was the
reason :-).
The lions are in a large separate enclosure to the rest of the reserve but
yes we do ride through the hippo's, rhino's etc.

Celeste
(South Africa)


I'D RATHER BE RIDING !
----- Original Message -----
From: hope lundquist <wwho20@hotmail.com>
To: <ksmuts@sarcc.co.za>
Cc: <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:07 AM
Subject: RC: Fwd: RE: Fwd: RC: Re: Gauteng 100 Miler Live on the Internet


> Hi Kristene: I saw some pictures in a magazine showing horse back riders
> somewhere in Africa. In the background were Elephants & Giraffes. I
thought
> how neat to do a Endurance ride and a African Safari at the same time. I
> know I don't have the horse for such an adventure tho. Bees scare him
silly.
> It must take some special training or maybe the horses grow up with the
wild
> animals. Your post does not say how to connect to the site to keep in
touch
> with the ride or did I miss something.Will the ride go thru the animal
> kingdom?  Will there be pictures sent also? Bye Hope
> ========================================================================
> >From: "Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
> >Reply-To: <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
> >To: "hope lundquist" <wwho20@hotmail.com>
> >CC: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> >Subject: RE: Fwd: RC: Re: Gauteng 100 Miler Live on the Internet
> >Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:02:44 -0400
> >
> >Hey Hope...Try Africa. There is endurance other places too.
> >I think that endurance with rhinos and elephants would be a hoot. We have
> >to
> >train our horses with camels and water buffalo after all.
> >
> >Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> >Cairo, Egypt
> >maryanne@ratbusters.net
> >www.ratbusters.net
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: hope lundquist [mailto:wwho20@hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:58 PM
> >To: ksmuts@sarrcc.co.za
> >Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
> >Subject: RC: Fwd: RC: Re: Gauteng 100 Miler Live on the Internet
> >
> >
> >Hi Kiistene: What planet is the ride on? AERC sanctioned??  Hope
> >=======================================================================
> >
> > >From: "Kristene Smuts" <Ksmuts@sarcc.co.za>
> > >To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>, <bandc@teknett.com>
> > >Subject: RC:  Re: Gauteng 100 Miler Live on the Internet
> > >Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:09:14 +0200
> > >
> > >Sorry guys, must have had a brain f**t.  The ride is going to be held
> >this
> > >weekend 5 and 6 October.  Starting time is aimed for 23:00 GMT (USA is
> > >approx. 5 hours behind and Australia is approx. 7 hours ahead) on 5
> > >October.
> > >
> > >Hope you can "join" us!
> > >
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