Re: Today SHow

["April" <adlee@mailandnews.com>]

It's interesting...you can certainly tell who is a horse person and who
isn't.  The female show host just wasn't comfortable around Big Sky Chance.
GORGEOUS horses, by the way!  I felt proud to be able to be connected to
them (by ridecamp and my fledgling endurance career) as they were show-cased
on national television.  I think a REAL documentary about endurance riding
would be great.  I mean a real rider doing a real ride.  I'm sorry, but Boyd
Matson riding a section of Tevis is NOT a real documentary (I haven't seen
it, but that's the impression I have).  Take Karen or Angie or Steve or
Steph or Nick or somebody like that.  Tag along with them on an endurance
ride, interview them, and you'll get a good look at endurance riding.

Still good exposure on the Today show.  Anybody who's a horse person would
see through the silly comments about the pooping and be interested in the
meat of the piece.  Anybody who's not a horse person?  Well.....they don't
need to know too much about it anyway.  They definitely wouldn't understand.

April & Apache
Chattanooga, TN

----- Original Message -----
From: <BMcCrary27@aol.com>



> In a message dated 9/13/99 8:38:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> owensall@sierratelcom writes:
>
> << Boyd Matson was saying that he was or did a segment on Tevis that would
air
>  > > on National Geographic Explorer  >>
>
> We saw it a few years ago (2-3), but were somewhat disgusted.  You saw
Boyd
> and Potato Richardson going up Cougar Rock and Boyd falling off the horse
at
> the top.  It was the phoniest trick; one could tell that he didn't REALLY
> fall off, it was a put-on.  I felt it demeaned our sport.  I saw only the
> portion of the Today Show during which Katy Couric was running all around
the
> Astro-turf trying to dodge the horse's hindquarters and making stupid
> comments about horse-poop and Immodium, etc.  Again, very demeaning, but I
> guess one has to realize how far from reality some of the world has
advanced


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