Facts and Fables re: The Great American Horse Race

["goearth" <goearth@shentel.net>]

Hello,  Back in 76 i was such a Newbie i didn't even know what 'tying up' a horse was til i did it in Ohio.  It was my first horse event.  It was in Ripleys Believe it or Not w/in 6 months " because it was won by a mule".  When Mac Abercrombie of Ambercrombie Saddles in Douglasville, Ga. ran a few ads saying he has WON the GAHR i let go as an ole man who was used to getting everything HIS way because he was the Sheriff down there.  What really happened is Dr. Bruce Branscomb had the guts to tell him his horses were lame.  Well Mac who was accustomed to getting things his way just paid the timers to keep his time.  He never again presented his horses to them for vetting.  Today i got an e-mail from Larry Lewis about Frenchie saying he came in second on an English/Arabian.  Come to find out Francis Arnaud from France,  Breeds the English/Arabian and sells to the Sheik among others.  Fact...Francis Arnaud finished ahead of me but not 2  maybe 22.  Frenchie on his website says also he co-founded CNRE, of which i have not a clue to its meaning but here in America we loose good college coachs and ruin reputations for life by just saying he has a Masters Degree and he don't.  http://www.le-cheval-bleu.com/eng/arabian2.htm Nice horses there but that breed Frenchie did not ride.  As a matter of fact i remember he rode an Arabian Mare owned by none other than who??  Mac Abercrombie...  Larry says let it die its not important.  The memory of Virl and the way he loved children and they loved him and those most beautiful mules will not let me forget.  Juel Ashley who did finish 2 on the first horse, a 14'1" Arab mare named Granny who Bruce said was the toughest horse on the race and if BC was given Granny would have gotten it.  Juel was an Oklahoma cowboy who walked arround in the morning w/his panty hose over his shoulder before he put them under his jeans.  Why is it important to me that their memories not be tarnished??  Because they are both dead and unable to take up for themselves.  Facts are all that interest me.  Fiction should just lie on the ground where it belongs.  tom sites