Re: RC: 5 miles BAREBACK

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In a message dated 6/18/99 7:25:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
adlee@bigfoot.com writes:

<<  I'll have to hold a barebacking ONLY ride sometime!  We'll have
 multiple distances.  5 miles, 10 miles, and, for the really brave, 15 miles!
 Completion awards for those who complete.  Nice Try awards to those who fall
 off!  No saddles allowed.  I'm still thinking about allowing simple bareback
 pads (girth and pad ONLY, no stirrups [dangerous on a bareback pad anyway],
 no dee rings to attach stuff to).  LOL. >>

When I was a kid getting ready for my very first CTR, I got something stuck 
under my cinch and made a gall on my mare.  I was mortified, and wanted to 
have it healed up in time for the ride, so I rode bareback on the cattle 
range (central Idaho--your basic vertical terrain) and chased cows that way 
for darn near a month.  I was young and tough then, and I never once came 
off, but I have a tendency toward allergies, and with riding nearly 7 days a 
week, anywhere from a couple of hours up to 8 or 10 hours some days on that 
sweaty horse (summertime, of course) I was a rash from the top of one cowboy 
boot to the other.  Was never so glad to see a saddle again in my life!  Have 
never ridden bareback since, for more than a quick warm-up walk-jog around 
camp on a well-broke horse the night before a ride, and have NO intention of 
ever being that miserable again!  :-)  (BTW--the strategy worked--the gall 
was healed by ride time, and I was 2nd in the Junior division to 
now-FEI-rider Suzanne Hayes and beat out all the local adults for the local 
awards...  And yes, there's another good example of a top-notch endurance 
rider who got her start on CTR's!)

Heidi

Heidi


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