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Every thing I say and right now with no back talk - got it!

Having your check area selected and laid out - water for the horse, feed and hay for the horse, a chair and something to eat and drink for you. The beauty of having a crew is you come in - they yell at you so you don't have to hunt for you stuff. They help hold the horse while you get the saddle off or a cooler on. I perfer to take my own horse through the check and that's probably what you will do also. But after the check you can give him the lead rope and let him watch the horse while you take care of yourself. Those few minutes of rest - when all you have to worry about is yourself - can do wonders for you.

So you need some idea what you want the horse to have and tell him how to lay it out. If you can go to the crew area early do it and pick out a place. Don't expect him to know you need a bucket for the horse to drink from and one to sponge from. If you want him to mix electrolytes - show him how.

He probably should bring a good book or he could just hang out with the rest of the crew guys and listen to them complain about what a royal pain in the butt their riders are ;-).

At the awards announce how wonderful you new crew was and give him the T-shirt!

Truman

PS: By all means be very - very nice to him. Having a crew makes life a lot easier.

sharon1359@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

My boyfriend is not a Horse Person, but is openminded.  In order to spend time
with me, he has said he might be willing to crew for me if he has a really good
idea what to expect... but I know I'm only going to have one stab at this!  If
he goes and the experience sucks, he probably won't be back.

I'm going to be doing several CTRs and *at least* one 50-mile endurance ride
this summer.  I want to give him something to read that will tell him what to
expect from a crew-person's point of view, especially at an endurance ride
since there is a lot more for the crew to do there.  Ideally it would be
written in some sort of basic terms that someone who isn't an endurance rider
will understand.

Any ideas?  Does such a thing exist??

Thanks,
-Sharon K.
www.ZEGifts.com
  

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