Re: [RC] DNS at Tevis - CForsyt
In a message dated 7/26/2002 4:26:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ridecamp-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Apparently the night before, he managed to get a lead rope
> stuck under his back shoe while scratching his ear.
>
> They got him "un-hog-tied", but he spooked from the trailing
> lead rope (still stuck to his foot) and took off around camp,
> with Carl on the back of a passing dirt-bike in hot pursuit.
>
> The horse was eventually recaptured and had some minor
> lacerations from the snap end of the rope that was whipping
> around. They opted not to start because they weren't 100% sure
> of him.
>
> Gah! What a nightmare thing to have happen on *that* evening
> of all evenings. Commiseration to them.
NO KIDDING! And to the rest of us, whose horses, in camp at Robie hours
before the start, were terrified, thinking there were BEARS lurking in the
woods at 2:30 a.m.! Little did we know at the time, they were only loose
horses! That's okay - we weren't sleeping anyway!
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