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Both Summit Riders and Monterey Bay Equestrians are staffing SP.  I think
MBE is a successor to ETI.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lif Strand" <lif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Letters to the World -- showing


> At 03:22 PM 6/18/2004, KYielding@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Heide Smith said in part...
> >
> > "...You have not seen the numbers of people who come into contact with
> > Arabians because some friend who is a ride manager twisted their arm into
> > coming to help at a ride, or the people who meet endurance riders out on
> > the trail conditioning and are awed and amazed that these horses are
calm,
> > tractable, and friendly."
> >
> > There is a lot of truth to that.  In 1999 I was the only one on this 2
> > mile long road that was out conditioning.  Now there are five of us and
> > two more are watching and might be interested.  None of us are breeders,
> > we just ride and look forward to being ready to do 50s.  (Doing a few 25s
> > now when we can.)
> And that reminds me - when Paul and I joined a club that was then part of
> ETI around 1978, we actually got in arguments about the fact that Paul and
> I wanted to trot on the trail.  It was disruptive!  It was too dangerous!
>
> After a few years, an awful lot of people in the club were riding Arabs,
> part-Arabs and other horses that were more suited for distance than for
the
> arena, and there was a lot of trotting going on and <gasp> occasionally
> some cantering!  They were going on overnights and bragging about how many
> hours/miles in the saddle they were putting in.
>
> Eventually they got involved with Barbara's Swanton Pacific... managing
the
> vet checks (are they still doing that, Barbara?) which was too bad,
because
> it meant they couldn't crew for me!
>
> ________________________________
>     Lif Strand      fasterhorses.com
>             Quemado NM USA
>
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> I drink a 50/50 mix of rootbeer and soymilk at the vetchecks.
> ~  Libby Llop
>
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