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> Yea Becky! What happened to Roxanne? Was it her or her horse? The way her 
> pants looked worried me a little. ;)

I saw her at Michigan Bluff and she looked in really good spirits, stayed 
and let her horse eat for awhile.  She was a little ahead of Becky then, 
and I left MB before Becky got there.  We went up to FH and got more 
photos.  Roxanne came in and it looked to me like she vetted thru okay, but 
maybe they wanted a recheck and then when she went back or maybe the first 
time (it gets hard to keep everybody straight with that many riders), they 
didn't like his skin tent or something.  I felt really bad for her because 
I know how devastated she was by the look on her face, it just broke her 
heart to have it over.  She held up really well though.  At least she 
wasn't throwing herself on the ground kicking and screaming like some of us 
might have been. :^D

The hardest part about being at the Tevis is to witness first hand the 
heartbreak.  There are so many people that have tried so hard to get there 
and put out so much work and effort, not just the riders but the horses and 
their families and their crewpeople.  It's hard work for everybody.

On a positive note, at least Shar Po is fine, and Roxanne got to ride most 
of the trail between riding yesterday and some prerides she did.  There 
isn't much you can say to make somebody feel better that didn't 
finish....hopefully they can get another shot at it if they decide they 
really want to do it.  There were several riders there this year who were 
on their 3rd or 4th attempts.  Some made it, some didn't.

Since I'm home, I went ahead and threw up the Foresthill photos.  John must 
be busy today and hasn't gotten to it.  That's okay, I really appreciate 
the help he gave yesterday in getting the photos up that I did get out 
(Thanks John!).  I put them 
here:  http://www.xprides.com/Foresthill/Foresthill.html   for now.   Looks 
like the Tevis photos site isn't working right now, so the other photos 
that Jackie put up on her server can be seen, and some of her albums (esp. 
from Robie Park) have captions and names to 
them:  http://www.typef.com/tevis/    It may take us a few days but we will 
do our best to try and get names up with the photos that don't have them 
for now.

Karen


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