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> Subject: [Endurance Riding: News] USA: Tevis horse plunges ...
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:54:59 -0700 (PDT)
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> http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2006/07/11/news/top_stories/02horse_11.txt
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> A rattlesnake spooked a Roseville woman's horse Sunday as she was
> training for the upcoming Tevis Cup race sending both horse and rider
> over an embankment.
>
> Rebel, a 13-year old Arabian, is feared dead after plunging more than 200
> feet from the Western States Trail near Deadwood into the American River
> Canyon below.
>
> Nicole Wiere, a veteran horsewoman, was out for a ride with friend and
> fellow equestrian Shawn Bowling Sunday afternoon when a rattlesnake on
> the trail, one-and-a-half miles from the Deadwood Cemetery, spooked
> Bowling's mule and Rebel.
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