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Re: [RC] *Some* Biltmore 100 miler bios are up - rides2farI find what you doing here intriguing. My ideal would be: Peter Gammons does Endurance. OK Linda, I'll do my best...but you'll have to tell me who Peter Gammons is. :-) When I do the webcast I think of it kind of like calling home to a friend who meant to come but didn't get to and telling them what they're missing. However, when I realized John put my phone message directly on the ineternet link I was alarmed because I can be a bit more "candid" than is professional. Scared me at first wondering what I said. I guess saying, "They've got more vets here than you can stir with a stick" was OK. Glad I didn't say anything worse. >g< I sent in my entry for Old Dominion yesterday. Jody Buttrams has offered me Aries (Who *I* secretly consider her *good* horse!) to ride there. I will again be trying to cover it for Endurance.net. You guys give me a hint what you really want in a webcast and I'll try. Again, John realizes I will be riding so that does make a difference in coverage. Not much chance I'll be getting lots of photos of the front runners! I did enjoy reading the bios from Biltmore. Wish we could have gotten *all* of them. I learned things about riders I've ridden with for years that I didn't know. It's kind of fun to be in an "official capacity" and have a reason to ask other than just nosiness. :-) Angie On Sun, 13 May 2007 08:47:50 -0500 "Linda Mirams" <lbm@xxxxxxx> writes: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:36:43 GMT, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wroteThe above link will get you to the bios and entry list for this year's Biltmore 100...Most new writers/reporters unconsciously absorb and copy the prevailing style of writing and coverage for the beat they are learning to cover. The vapid nature of horse journalism, particularly horse show journalism, used to drive me bonkers until I figured out that the style and content of the "coverage" had its roots--not in newspaper "Sports" pages--but in newspaper "Society" pages!! That's why it was always so important to drop as many daughters' names as possible, to make sure all the popular trainers had the accomplishments of their barns dutifully (if tediously) listed, and to make sure that whatever scandals might lay under the surface were never, never mentioned. I was reading Estelle Parsons goes to the horse show, not Studs Terkel goes to the ball game. The only horse journalism that doesn't fall into this category is: horse racing coverage as practised by journals such as _The Blood Horse_, and--only occasionally and seemingly almost by accident-- _The Chronicle of the Horse_. Linda Mirams =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Angie McGhee http://www.lightersideofendurance.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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