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Yeah - I can understand this.  How "usual" is this kind of excitement  
for other international rides?  Do they all draw this level of crowd?   
If not, I can certainly understand a good percentage of the horses  
deciding that something must be terribly wrong.  After all - why are  
all these people screaming?

And cooling fans?  Can't say I've ever run into one of those at a  
horse venue....


On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Steph Teeter wrote:

> This is pretty much the consensus from people that were here. The  
> music AND the screaming cheering people (thousands) that lined the  
> first 1/2 mile of the course.
>
> I also noticed that during first inspection - when horses had to  
> pass under the fans in the cooling area and where the vets were  
> standing - some of them got over-excited and had to be taken out  
> into the open. The whirring seemed to bother them considerably.
>
> Steph
>
> >>
> > I was listening to the music on the live stream:  IT WAS THE MUSIC  
> > THAT DROVE THE HORSES CRAZY!!
>
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