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[RC] Doncaster Renegade Ride - Judie Ricci
The Renegade ride was GREAT!!!! This was the 4th NE ride for us, ( just moved from the SE in Jan. ) and it was one of the BEST MANAGED rides we have done including the PS rides. Helen and John Stacy did such a great job and all the volunteers were very helpful, and plentiful . Helen had to TRY to get everyone to park a certain way due to limited space , no big corals, they had to "buy" the water for the ride , and get this, when you came to water on the trail there were two tanks at each water stop!! one to sponge out of , and one for horse drinking water! and these were kept full, the trail markings were awesome, like Bonnie kept saying "a blind person could find their way" , you had a nice variety of terrain, single track, open dirt roads, bean fields, lots of grass for the horses to eat, and they fed the riders good too, Friday dinner, Sat. breakfast , Sat.
dinner and for the Sunday CTR crowd they had breakfast too. The ride camp was set up early , so the riders knew where to put their crew stuff , there was a large water tank in the middle of the area so you could give your horse an opportunity to drink as you went to your crew spot, this was not a BUCKET ONLY tank it was wonderful to let your horse stick his head in to drink after a loop and not worry if someone was going to yell " hey that is for buckets not horses" , they had a ton of tanks filled to bucket out of in a different area that horses could not use,... , and a lot of P&R people so the lines weren't long waiting for the vets. I'm sure many of the NE riders have done this ride as this is the 12 year for it , but I just wanted to acknowledge the extreme efforts of the Stacys,and their volunteers. There was a tornadoes through the area a week before the ride so they had the added burden of Chainsaw work just before the ride,
there were a few nice jumps on the trail, but the big stuff was cut away. Thank you Helen and John, We will try the 75 next time Judie and Pete Ricci
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