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[RC] One Week One Horse= 310 Miles (FITS) - Ridecamp Guest

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NOT in my wildest dreams did I ever think Hawk
and me were going to ride all 6 days of this new
ride in Florida. Before I start I will say this
was a FIRST class event all the way thanks to all
who helped make it that way.
The game plan was to ride the Pioneer and maybe one other
day to make it 205 miles well worth the trip down.
This seemed like a good plan although I was thinking
that it's a lot easier to say your going to ride 4 days
than to actually do it. I could not even remember the 
last time I did a 50/50? By day 4 I found it amazing what
Aleve, vaseline and bandaids can do.
By day 5 the timers knew my # and Hawk had quite a cheering
squad supporting him. He also had a smorgasbord every hold
as we were last and he just would go around and clean up the
food and hay left behind. By day 6 we were both in shock
as no other horse had done more than 4 days and here was
this big Morgan(that everyone kept calling a Belgian) still
going. We turtled for the 3rd day in a row and earned a lot
of respect from the vets most of whom had not seen Hawk before.
My biggest compliment was from Irving telling me I was now
the boilest of all boiled owls! thanks Irv! Morgan Power! 


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