Re: Tevis Completion Percentage This Year

["Steven Proe" <trails@aaahawk.com>]

Hi Folks: Another reason that the rocks may have been more of a problem, may
be, the use of the trail/s by legal and illegal bike use, both motorized and
non-motorized.
Steven Proe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy C Trumbull" <elsie@foothill.net>
To: "RideCamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: RC: Tevis Completion Percentage This Year


> I was talking to vets Melissa Ribley and Nancy Elliot
> about this at the finish. I asked "were they going
> fast because it was cool?" and they said "no".
>
> They speculated it was because of the rocks.
>
> We had quite a dry winter, so maybe all the mud around
> the rocks blew away, leaving them lying there to be
> stumbled over? Be interesting to see what percentage
> of horses were pulled for lameness.
>
> Get on that, would you Richard? <BG>
>
> DabneyEsq@cs.com wrote:
> >
> > I'm just really curious as to why the completion percentage was so low
> > this year;... Seems especially odd given the nice weather.
>
>
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