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At 02:06 PM 8/2/2004, Karen Sullivan wrote:
> The one thing I wanted to share was that there was a diligent group of 
> ride volunteers with checklists on the horses, that went around the barns 
> all night monitoring  the horses and how they were doing, checking water 
> buckets and food.  This was backed by the veterinarians, who were also 
> going around every half hour or so and double clecking horses.  I was 
> very, very impressed by all this.

That's very cool.  When did they start that?  Paul and I used to pay for an 
extra stall so we could sleep next to our horses rather than leave them 
alone.  We never saw anyone other than a few other riders or crew watching 
over the horses.  Some horses would run out of food and water and have no 
one there to watch over them.

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