Re: RC: starved horse who completed a 100 mile race 9 months later....

[jtaylor@pyramid.net]

Lari Shea wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom and Susan,
> 
> Point of interest....my 11 year old Arabian gelding, Gabriel, was lost over
> a cliff on the Tevis trail in 1991.  He was found six weeks later, 70 feet
> over the edge, on a rock shelf 10 feet by 20 feet which had a trickle of
> water that filled a bowl-shaped depression at one end.  Absolutely nothing
> to eat from July 31st to September 23rd.   He had indeed metabolized all of
> his body fat, and much of his muscle mass.  He looked like a horsey
> skeleton with a rug thrown over it.   I'm not going to tell the whole long
> story here......but he completed the Mount Diablo 100 the next June.   Of
> course, he's an incredible horse.
> 
> Lari
> 
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I would like to hear the whole story. Julie


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