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Suzanne Hayes:
> I wanted to let you all know
> that my friend and one of the greatest endurance
> horses ever passed away this morning. Kooter (Kootenai Zizzero, AERC
> #5081)...

Aw, Suzanne. I'm so sorry. Kooter will be missed by many.

I had the honour of helping Suzanne at Michigan Bluff during Tevis
about ten years ago and always remember Kooter. Suzanne was 
worried that he was having a low and wanted him to eat, so I stood 
there holding a pan of mush under his nose, following his mouth to 
keep him eating it. Suzanne left the check hand-walking Kooter with
a flake of hay tucked under her arm.

Steph:
> just added a photo of Kooter to
> Suzie's message: http://
>
> www.endurance.net/channels/2008/02/kooter.html
>
> Suzie - wasn't he a big horse - close to 16hh? and part
> Morgan?

Kooter was *huge*! But perfectly proportioned, so you didn't realise
how big he was until you got up close and he loomed larger and
larger. 

It was as though he was 9/8th's scale (which is the opposite of my 
Roo, who is 7/8th's scale <g>).

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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, CA
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