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Congratulations John,
You and Remington and Skjoldur have set some very impressive
records. I always enjoy riding with you and reading that shirt logo Terry
Wolley coined for your signature finish of always near the end....
"I Like It In The Rear"... :-D
Don Huston

At 11:18 PM 4/24/2007 Tuesday, you wrote:
> With our completion
> of the fifty miler on day one of the Cuyama Ride a few weeks ago, back-up
> Icelandic pony Skjoldur and I became a Decade Team - horse and rider
> completing an endurance ride in each of ten years.  I'm the proud
> rider of two different Decade horses, since Remington and I became a
> Decade Team two years ago.
>  
> With our completion of the hundred miler at the Git R Done ride a week
> and a half ago, Remington became the PSW Region's first Platinum horse
> under the 100 Mile Horse Recognition Program.  A horse reaches the
> Platinum level under the 100 Mile Horse Recognition Program when it
> completes at least ten one hundred mile rides and has at least 5,000
> career miles.  13.3 hh Remington now has ten one hundred mile
> completions and 10,300 miles.  No doubt there is great consternation
> in the secret inner workings of the AERC that the only 10,000 mile horse
> anywhere still doing hundred milers isn't even a real horse.
>  
> Incidentally, I was very impressed with how completely unintrusive the
> FEI part of the Git R Done ride was in the ride experience for us just
> plain folks.  It was a nice surprise to see Mike Tomlinson, Jan
> Stevens and Vonita Bowers at the ride.  They did a great job in
> keeping things just normal.  We are really lucky to have Vonita as
> our USEF representative.  A couple of years ago there was a lot of
> complaining about how jointly sanctioning with FEI ruined AERC
> rides.  Maybe things have changed since there sure wasn't anything
> to complain about at this ride unless you didn't care for sand.  If
> I put on another ride again, I might just add an FEI division if that
> means Mike, Jan and Vonita will come and help.
>  
> Rumor has it that the Icelandic financiers who are taking over much of
> European banking are using their money to convince the FEI to establish a
> Northern division in recognition of the disproportionate participation of
> Icelandic ponies in hundred mile rides.  (Since both my ponies do
> hundred milers, that's a 100% participation rate for the breed,
> right?)  Consistent with the apparent correlation of money and
> course design in the international scene, Northern division FEI rides
> will be all about traversing fields of volcanic rock and crossing glacial
> rivers.  Probably during the winter, no less.
>  
> John Parke
> Solvang CA

Don Huston at cox dot net
SanDiego, Calif