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[RC] water trough and Pyramid Challenge - (was OD part2) - Timothy WordenLara and I attended The Pyramid Challenge this past weekend at Kentucky Horse Park. RM Tommy Ticktin mentioned in the ride meeting about a huge concrete trough that both loops intersect. This trough had the nastiest scummiest, algea filled water......THE HORSES LOVED IT!!...just like Tommy said. Next to it was a nice clean water trough, but the horses didn't pay any attention to it...they wanted the water with some flavor. The Pyramid Challenge was a wonderful ride and we'll probably attend again next year. The 50s got to finish in a down pour that felt great since it was so hot. Kentucky Horse Park is awesome. Here I thought we were the only crazy people going to be up at 6am...nope, plenty of jumpers were up lunging and warming up their horses for the days activities. The Pyramid Society show was great. I got my first experience of watching the "Liberty Class"...imagine...a bugged up Egyptian Arabian being turned loose in the arena with the crowd hootin' and hollarin', music blaring, and two handlers with crops moving them as well. Then the announcer says "TIME", the crowd becomes dead silent, the music stops, and the two handlers have 2min to catch and put a halter back on this wigged out arabian. All six horses were caught within the 2min...some coming close. They sure were a blast to watch canter, gallop, trot, buck, fart...all over that arena. A big congrats to Lucie Hancock who finally got her first ever 50mile win. I think I'd heard she's been endurance riding since 1988. Tim North Carolina --- Jim Holland <lanconn@xxxxxxx> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of A. Perez Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:10 AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] re[RC] Old Dominion 50 - Part 2 - Jim Holland Just to comment on a few of Jim's observations: I can't sympathise with you there: letting everyone drink out of troughs or other standing water is a dandy way to spread strangles and other nasties. Collapsible buckets are cheap, or you could have begged another crew to carry a bucket for you. Huh? Amanda, IMHO, that's ridiculous! I have NEVER in all the years I have been doing this, been to a ride where the horses could not DRINK out of the water troughs. Good grief! Horses mingle all over each other on the trail, in vet checks, and drink from unbelievably cruddy "standing" water on the trail. You REALLLY think that horses drinking from the same trough is a health issue???? Hopefully, riders are smart enough to immunize their horse against any "nasties" you expect to be out there. Ride managers sometimes provide TWO types of water troughs, such as large trash cans for sponging and troughs for drinking on the assumption that sponging out of the troughs may cause the horses not to drink the water as readily. IMHO, doesn't matter.....my guys drink stuff that would make a skunk puke! They sure as heck don't care about sponging in it. -------------------- I am glad I volunteered at a ride before riding in one: I will be much more understanding of the short-comings in management when I finally do a ride: it's a huge effort to put on a ride, and pretty thankless. -------------------- Yep...working a ride first is a good idea. When you finally ride in one, you will get an even different perspective. :) Jim, Sun of Dimanche, and Mahada Magic ============================================================ REAL endurance is reading the LD vs. Endurance thread/debate every 3 months!!! ~ Heidi Sowards ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ People in Alabama swear by manure tea as an herbal remedy for colds. ~ Lisa Redmond ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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