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[RC] AW: AW: Conditioning Miss Gedebe - Hilga HoefkensHi Nik, Gemini sure is a superb horse. I think what the people think of as fluke was the putting on brakes in clear view of the finish line and all the spectators assembled there. I can see Rashids point in showing off the advantage he had over everybody else. He came out of the bushes into viev, rode up and down, dismounted and walked around, mounted again and went back a little, and all that for more than 10 minutes with everybody waiting at the finishline and wondering what he was doing. When mighty daddy appeared it became clear to everybody what was going on there, and I think most people counted that as poor sportsmanship. Rather daddys poor sportsmanship, cause aparently Rashid was ordered to wait. Gemini looked very good throughout the ride. All horses where handled differently by UAE grooms. One caught my attention because after vetting in, hosing down and elyting one person took a bagfull of cut grass and wandered around the whole time with that horse, feeding the grass from the hand. I did not look that close and it could have been Provocative or Gemini that was wandering around during all checks. Looking at my photos I think Gemini and Provocative look very much alike. Gemini has a really long neck though. Have a look: http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=showMyPhoto &albumID=91814008&photoID=91816659&security=CuDblQ http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=showMyPhoto &albumID=91814008&photoID=91817066&security=ChDnjn BTW, did you get my mail with the links to these Photos? I took care to make some nice shots of the malaysian riders too. http://community.webhots.com/user/11pamina Best regards Hilga -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Nik Isahak Abdullah [mailto:drnikisahak@xxxxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2003 07:16 An: hilga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; steph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: Re: AW: Conditioning Miss Gedebe Hi Hilga, I was just perusing thru the race data of the recent Punchestown Open European Chapionship and come across the following interesting facts: 1.Thegood Sheikh Mohamad Senior has a dutiful son in Sheikh Hamdan who could have won the race by a good 12 minutes on his diminutive horse Gemini but Sheikh junior must have put on the break on Gemini to wait for his father on the more well known Provocative. 2.Gemini is a horse nobody in France wanted.A "bad"looking horse which my colleague Dato Kamaruddin bought 2 years back and "won" in Helguat France in 2001. I say " won" because this colleague of mine gave the race to his French colleague who was riding ,I think ,provocative that time for Sheikh Makotum that time.For that act of diplomacy Gemini was finally sold to the Sheikh later.Now it seem this is the horse to beat in any endurance world event! 3.Sheikh Hamdan who I consider the actual winner of the European Open is an excellent rider. He pace well,going at 15+kph throughout the whole race except at the last phase when he actually put the bracks on for his dad.Gemini's recovery was phenomenal i.e at less than 2 minutes at each phase!Compare this with Valary Kanavy's Shahdan who even took 8 minutes to recover and her need to speed thing up in each phase up to 16 to 17 kph at time , I would say the young Sheikh would be very difficult to beat in many many more years ahead.In Gemini,a bad looking horse that no one in France wants,he has an excellent campaigner and in himself,you have a very matured rider more advance than his age!The WEG was certainly no fluke as some of the people in ridecamp noted! Nik =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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