Virl Norton

[Steve Shaw <sshaw@pacbell.net>]

Saturday I won the Virl Norton Award at the Mustang Classic 50 mile 
endurance ride and I am sorry that Ad Vandenhogan wasn't there to see 
this because he was one of Virl's good friends. The how or why I got it 
isn't necessarily a good thread here and I will let anyone know the 
details at sshaw@pacbell.net, but I would like to hear stories about 
VIRL NORTON. I have quite a few stories about horses he sold me, or 
tried to, and about races against "Virl's Girls." One is about him 
training a zebra to drive. He always wanted to ride it in an endurance 
ride but he was too smart to even try that. (The zebra)

One of Virl's horses I owned for only about ten seconds but I got to 
ride it at TEVIS one year. The horse came in fifth and was one of the 
most honest horses I ever rode, Jazeel. Virl taught me about what was an 
honest horse.

Virl was quite a part of AERC and endurance. I wonder if AERC News has 
an old article about him from their archives that they can recycle here. 
 I hope that the committee choosing our next Executive to assist in the 
running of AERC embodies some of the spirit of Virl in that person.

Steve