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[RC] ponying and other rules - MarineraSometime in the 70s there was a 100 miler starting at midnight and a 50 milerstarting at 6 or 7 a.m. the same day just a few miles apart. Much of the two rides was on the same trail. I decided I could do both. I started at midnight, rode the first horse 50 miles and handed him to a friend. I went to the other ride site, made it in time, and rode Gazal fifty miles. I then returned to the first now well rested horse and continued on the 100 miler. It was all rather ill fated. The first horse was a terrible spooker and had dumped me twice in the dark in the early morning. When I returned to him the other 100 milers were now well ahead of me and I was out there alone with people complaining that I was holding up the vet stops. He (his name was Comet) dumped me again and I quit. Because we were a new organization, we had few rules and I had not broken any. I apparently was the only one who recognized the possibility of doing two rides in one 24 hour period, or perhaps the others were less demented than I. Now you cannot have two rides on the same day in more or less the same location and I am sure there are other rules that apply also. But I wish now I had accomplished my goal. I know I could have done it if I had just managed to stay aboard the horse. Julie ************** It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)
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