Title: "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis
Got back from Carolina Moonlite about dark
Friday and Joan and I headed straight or the PC to see how how the SE riders
finished. So proud of Becky! Of course, it was that great mountain training
up in Blue Ridge that made the difference!
<grin> Hope she got a Cougar Rock picture! Thanks to everyone
who put up the great pics!
Magic finished Top Ten (10th) at
Carolina Moonlite. One B all day and finished all A’s and still
wanting to go. Would probably have done a little better if I hadn’t
missed the turn at the powerline on the 2nd loop. Bright
moonlite that changed to a ghostly fog after midnite. Flying down the
side of a paved road dodging mailboxes and looking for glowsticks in the dark was
“interesting” to say the least! J Got to ride with
Stagg for a while on the last loop. Had to go on because I was laughing
too much at his “tales”! Especially liked the one about where
he was riding an ex-racehorse and they started the ride with a bugle.
ROFL! Finished about 3:30 AM.
Sorry, Stagg…..didn’t
intentionally bump you out of the Top Ten. Didn’t even know I was
in the Top Ten at that point. Magic was still strong and I wanted to push
him a little harder. 39 started the 50 and 29 finished. There were
about 70+ in the 25…..but I missed the first part of the awards meeting,
so don’t know results.
Debra Ivey won the 50 and BC on Toby. I
think Pat Oliva was middle of Top Ten. Pat, would you please put a sign
on that “dog” you call a horse so people won’t keep “capturing”
him when he grazes through camp? J Hot, hot, and more hot. It was 99 degrees on my truck
thermometer on the way home Sunday. Trailer was an oven. We stopped
every two hours to give Magic water, a little grass, and some relief from the
heat. So humid, everything was just soggy, with little rain showers moving
through. Dang ants about toted us off! Little buggers were
everywhere! Horses stomping, they were in our shoes and chairs. We
were all covered in ant bites. Gnawed a hole through the plastic in a loaf of
bread! I had visions of those cartoons where you see a bunch of ants
under something lifting it at a picnic! I swear it was moving!
Three riders started the 100. At the
10:00 AM awards, one pull, Tim Worden was in at 75 and fit to continue, but “rider
optioned” because his horse had some kind of heel problem. Hope he
will give us some details later. There was one rider left in the 100 when
we headed for home, but don’t know if she finished.
During the ride, a horse bolted out of a
crew point at the vet check and disappeared into the night. Anyone know
if he was found?
Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic (Who
is glad to be home and out of the ants!)
