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Re: [RC] President's Cup entry - John TeeterYes, Barry sent Kann Sam Count along for Jeremy to ride. I guess it was a pretty arduous trip over. lots of wait time + the air time. Jeremy flew with Kann Sam Count. Heather should arrive today (and I don't know if Barry is coming or not - I'll ask). Becky Spencer will ride Bob Edward's mare Oritos Sonny (and Bob is having a great time here I think!:) - he's a pretty competitive guy! (the list of invited riders is at: http://www.endurance.net/2005PresidentsCup/ Also new today is background on the French riders. They will be competing on horses which they have stabled here for competition this season. It will be interesting to see the advantage of this approach. more later, we're headed out to the quarantine barns today to see everyone. It's a little spread out. There are 9 of the 3 bedroom chalets out at the village. The US has three of them, Australia has 2 - and I'm not sure what's up with the others. Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, UK, Germany are staying here at the Hotel and driving back/forth (45 min commute). We (steph and I) opted out of the disco night last evening (with Fr, Sp, Portugal). They were headed out at 10:00pm -- I was headed to bed -- the energy of youth (and the incredible Robert Pastor of France!!) - I think we will beat them to the stables today -- I put up some images of the Al Reef Stables trainers out on a 10 mile loop. http://www.endurance.net/2005PresidentsCup/gallery/ They cantered the whole thing at a pretty good clip (@20km/hr). It was a pretty good contrast with the more cautious approach of the everyone else. There is certainly a need to acclimate to such conditions. But watching the training, it's also pretty clear that the optimum performance of these animals has not yet been achieved, as they are working against the riders most of the time. jt (p.s. steph, who will write more later I'm sure, went riding yesterday near the Dubai ride site. I guess they actually water the trail there every other day to keep the footing in good shape. Nice water trucks here I'll have to admit:) At 05:15 AM 2/11/2005, you wrote: Please Reply to: Laura Fend ljfend@xxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== I was looking at the invited list of riders to the President's Cup and noticed this entry: Jeremy Reynolds Kann Sam Count joint winner of the Tevis Cup 2004. Now I know that Jeremy didn't ride Sam at Tevis. Did Barry let him take Sam to Dubai for some reason? or is this a mistaken list? Just curious. Laura =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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