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| Unnofficial results 1. Jeremy Reynolds - A Kutt Above - 8:17.33 2. Meg Sleeper - Syrocco Reveille 8:17.34 3. Becky Hart - No Repeat - 8:38.30 4. Doug Swingley - Pal of Mine - 8:55.54 5. Cheryl Dell - TR Reason to Believe - 10:48.24 6. Suzy Hayes - Greenbriar Al Jabal -10:51.21 7. Caroline Franzen - National Security - 10:51.23 8. Lisa Green - LR Amana Tabi - 11:13.58 9. Guy Worthington - Serloki - 11:18.26 10. McCamey Kimbler - P L Nino - 11:18.27 11. Jan Worthington - Golden Lightning - 11:18.29 12. Deanna Guinasso - RGR Flash Fire - 11:18.30 13. Kyle Gibbon - Soho - 11:19.08 14. Steve Rojek - Beaujolais - 11:19.09 15. Gene Limlaw - Con La Cracia - 11:19.12 16. Sue Hedgecock - Aireagle - 11:19.58 17. Terre O'Brennan - Koszaar - 12:54.52 18. Christy Janzen - Sakic - 12:54.53 19. Kathy Irvine - Nightwinds Savannah - 12:54.54 20. Ann Hall - HCC Zara RR - 21. Ron Sproat - SAR Tiki Taxes 22. Mary Farris - LZP Julioslastchance - 23. Michelle Rousch - Hat Trick LA - 24. Alexandra North - Triomphe - 25. Cheryl Van Deusen - Mirbat Dreamy Gal - 26. Jim Brown - Principal Boy - 27. Darolyn Butler - DJB Jolly Roger - 28. Holly Corcoran - DJB Santanas Chief - 29. Yvette Vinton - DJB Boomer - 30. Radu Ciubuc - HC Ashtar - 31. Jessica DiCamillo - RGS Crestwind Premiere - |
Best Condition: No Repeat, ridden by Becky Hart Teams: 1. Mountain A * Doug Swigley on Pal Of Mine * Susanne Hayes on Greenbriar Al Jabar * Suzanne Hedgecock on Aireagle * Christoph Schork on Stars Aflame (did not finish) PULLS: Dominique Freeman - Rising Heat Ceci Butler-Stasiuk - DJB Cytron Kon JMS Christoph Schork - Stars Aflame Lynn Lee - RS Silverado Melody Blittersdorf - Lunor Sovreign Kathy Brunjes - Frontier Random Heather Reynolds - Destiny Gold Nicole Smith - Ravenwood Shahbar Mary Kathryn Clark - CRR FC Lantana Carol Giles - SAR Tiki Gallaxy Lindsay Graham - Monk |
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The Party Before the Calm Before the Storm
- Merri Melde
If you didn't see the horses - which you can't from Camp Central, because they're camped in the south field - you'd think it was just a big camping party.
Wine and cheese sponsored by Pac North, great folk music - guitar, stand up bass, mandolin and accordion - got the dancers started. Endurance riders from the Northeast, Central, Mountain, North, South, Southeast, and Canada - plus a few foreign riders (final entry list to come) - enjoyed the party before tomorrow's calm before Saturday's early morning start of the 100-mile North American Endurance Team Championship in Greenville, California.
"It's one big family that you see year after year," Canadian Joan said. She drove a couple of horses from Alberta, lost an axle near Reno, and was happy to be here with everybody. She rode in the first Endurance Championship in 1988; since then she's been rider, crew, groom, driver, you name it.
The Canadians originally had 15 horses and riders scheduled to come; the number dropped to 8, then 5 - and now just 4. But chef d'equipe Maura said, "We're here, and we'll have fun."
Winding Up
- Merri Melde
Friday September 23 2011
"I wouldn't trade a minute of riding with my daughter. We just want to have a good ride." So said Central team's Karen Binns DiCamillo, riding with her 17-year-old daughter Jessica, one of four Young Riders in tomorrow's North American Endurance Team Challenge. Karen and Jessica won the 2004 Bill Thornburgh Family Award Winners - top mileage parent(s)-child(ren) team - with 2410 miles.
Jessica already has 5000 endurance miles. She has ridden her 10-year-old horse 'Woody' in the last 4 FEI North AMerican Junior/Young Rider Championships. Their goal at this ride is to to have fun and finish, because they have an even bigger goal beyond this ride: Jessica is hoping to participate in this year's Junior World Endurance Championship in Dubai. Endurance is Woody's second career - he and the other DiCamillo horses do ranch work to earn their endurance riding fees. Karen will be riding RGS SHA Strike Two. This will be 11-year-old Strike's first 100; he entered the 100 at the Kentucky WEG pre-ride when the ride was shortened on course to 75 miles due to horrid weather.
"We expect the East riders to go out fast," an anonymous source told me. It's a hard first loop, a climb up, 13 miles and a couple thousand feet. It'll be chilly in the morning, around 56* at the basecamp start, and still chilly for the 30 minute hold up top. If some of those front runners go too soon too fast, it might set up nicely for those in the second tier, or some of those, like Jan Worthington and Golden Lightning who get stronger the last 50 miles. ... full story