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RE: [RC] [RC] Fw: Volunteers at Rides - Being run over - Long - Laurie Durgin

What to learn from this: 1) Don't go to congested rides if you or your horse are a novice or green 2) Don't go to FEI/Championship rides if you or your horse are new or green, unless you are just volunteering.And then watch out for your own safety.


From: "GarnerT" <GarnerT@xxxxxxx>
To: <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   Fw: Volunteers at Rides - Being run over - Long
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:26:08 -0700

It's really pathetic when you can't properly address an email.  Here is my
post - a little late - due to inept typing.

Kathy

----- Original Message -----
From: GarnerT <GarnerT@xxxxxxx>
To: <ridecam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Volunteers at Rides - Being run over


> I can only say, "Thank goodness you're O.K."
>
> It's not only the finish line that can be dangerous. I was doing a 35
mile
> LD on my new horse a couple of years ago. The finish line for the LD
riders
> was about 200 yards from base camp where the 65 milers, the 100 milers, &
> the FEI riders would come in for their lunch break/vet check. It was a
big
> ride, with over 200 riders & the LD riders had been told we'd be second
> class citizens because of the FEI ride - which was fine by me; most of us
> understood the importance of the FEI ride. As the P & R person was taking
> my guy's pulse, some riders came thundering toward us. The had a large,
> wide road to ride in, but they were galloping right at us. I watched in
> disbelief as they came closer & closer. Finally I yelled "watch out" to
the
> P & R person, jerked my horse out of the way, and jumped off the road. It
> scared the you-know-what out of me. The P & R person was annoyed for a
> second, thinking I had moved my horse just as she got his pulse, then the
> riders came running by, right where she HAD been standing. We just looked
> at each in disbelief. Earlier in the morning, we had been run off the
trail
> by 2 riders. It was a single track trail, and they came up so fast we
> didn't hear them. They didn't ask to go around, they just ran by us. My
> horse, being new, spooked out into the cactus and coyote brush and I
almost
> got dumped. I wasn't mad at him, they had even scared me, they appeared
so
> suddenly. If they had asked us to move, we would have been out of their
> way in a second.
>
> Luckily no one was hurt, but I really couldn't believe that people would
be
> so careless, both on the trail, and to people standing on the ground,
> volunteering at a ride. I know placing is very important to a lot of
> people, but I never want to be the rider that causes an injury to another
> rider, volunteer, bystander, or vet. By the way, I have no idea if these
> were FEI riders, 100 milers or what. They went by so fast I couldn't see
> the numbers on their horse's butts! My final comment is; out of over 200
> riders, only 4 riders rode in such a stupid & careless manner!
>
> I'm just glad you're O.K. No one I ride with would ever act that way.
>
> Kathy Garner
>
>
>
>


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