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> What's the news from the Hallelujah 100?
I'm crossposting so if you reply, you might want to delete two of the
addresses. Too tired to go seperately.

Note: I VISIT a lot during awards meetings and if I happen to catch
someone's name who placed it is pure luck so this isn't even CLOSE to
resonably mediocre reporting...but more than you've got so far. rundown.
Kim Orr won the 100 Kathryn Downs BC (hope I got that right). 15 started
12 finished (I think). The last 5 tied for turtle after traveling as a
group all day.  Kyle Gibben & Rica finished their first 100. How unusual
is it for a 17 year old male to train a  horse, manage to make
arrangements to get himself to the ride with no other family present, and
finish the thing! When someone like Kyle posts on RC and says, "I'm
available to ride if you have a spare horse" it's natural for people who
haven't met him to be leary, but I believe once everyone gets to know him
he's going to be busy with offers. He's very conscientious, detail
oriented, informed, light as a feather, a crosscountry runner, patient,
and obviously loves horses and endurance riding. What more could you ask?
I never saw him frazzled at any point though everyone else was
experiencing the usual DIMR.

Kyle rode with Windy Mancini...who finished on the most massive MUSCLED
UP, Quarter Horse you could possibly have a mental image of. This is not
a TB called a QH, this sucker has a butt on him like no other, looks like
an equine body builder. He finished at Big South Fork in the heat too.
Amazing horse.Mary Catharine Clark was the only junior, she finished with
the 7. A few other random completion names...Ruth Anne Everett, Alison
Bailey, Susan LaBrush (sp?) Farzad Faryadi (first 100, boy was he happy
:-)

Last horses finished just after midnight. The ride was an awful lot of
fun. The weather couldn't have been better. A cool front came in and the
horses never seemed to have a problem with the heat. Josie rode Cade in
the 50, did the last 25 miles faster than the first 25 in a winter coat
(I was crewing and never met her at the right time I was so confused by
this negative splits thing!)  I don't believe I ever checked his pulse
when he was above 56. They just didn't seem to build up a lot of heat
even though it was very sunny. The temp went up, but there was a nice
cool breeze. Got COLD Sat. night. Lots of mummys wrapped up in blankets
waiting for the last to come in. Great party on top of a rig overlooking
the vet check area. The host had his rig parked crosswise at the end of
the trot out and the folks sitting on top had a great view (even without
the telescope they had set up). They spent the entire afternoon
applauding completion trot outs giving thumbs ups early on and coming up
with Olympic type score cards to hold up later as the party progressed
and the sound of a blender rose from their perch. >g< Nobody fell off the
rig, including Ju Ju Danny Herlong's "Jack Shitz Terrier" who attended. 

Danny Herlong's Marsh Tacky Pony took the lead in AERC lifetime mileage
for Marsh Tacky Ponies with a total of 25 miles. When Danny called to
tell me he'd purchased a rare Marsh Tacky I thought it was another
something he'd made up, but it's a for real breed...sort of a
Chincoteague pony from islands farther south off the coast of South
Carolina with the same basic story as their origin..shipwrecked Spanish
horses. Since Danny & Mules don't mix, but he just *needs* something
*different* to go with his personality, I can't imagine anything more
appropriate than a breed that would understand his accent. "Grits
Herlong" impressed *me* by finishing the 25 in the sand carrying 295
lbs...since Danny rode him with a gosh awful 50 lb. stock saddle because
he figured the somewhat GREEN broke horse might cut loose on him. At the
15 mile trot out Grits' CRI was 36/36. I think I'll start sponsoring a
"first Marsh Tacky" award at all SE rides. It will be fun to come up with
appropriate prizes.  Cutest moment of the day was when the little 4-H
girls who were helping out all wanted to trot out Danny's Marsh Tacky.
They had on bright green 4-H T-shirts and when one trotted him and the
others all ran along after them that horse got *annimated*. I think he
thought the little green martians were out to eat marsh tacky stew.

Adri Dinklemann won the 75 & BC with Mustafa.

I'm HORRIBLE with names, *know* the person who was first in the 50 but
name evades me. Blonde, slim, attractive smile, rides a chestnut with a
blaze? Beat Wesley Crowe & some other male in a race. Wes was first HW is
all I know there.

Buddy Gleason won the 25.

Angie McGhee (you get what you pay for when it comes to accurate
reporting and remember they say don't believe everything you read on the
net!)

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