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[RC] Save fuel the 4 legged way - Kathleen A. Crothers

I'm late getting into the topic. Back in the early 70's when fuel was in short 
supply, cheap but short supply, my friend got together a group of women to 
protest the shortage and we rode from her place about 7 miles outside the 
suburbs in Denver.  I was riding an arab but not into endurance yet.  We rode 
to a local grocery store.  One gal called the tv stations and newspapers.  We 
made signs to carry on our horses to protest the fuel shortage.  One lady's 
sign said " save gas ride a horses A--".  We got a lot of attention.  The store 
manager had water and hay out for our horses.  My horse was very relaxed and 
ate like a pig there.  Guess that is why I like my current endurance horse so 
well he also eats like a pig and he has similar bloodlines with several lines 
to Witez!!.  We couldn't carry too many groceries on horseback but one lady was 
leading a pack horse for that .  We had a blast. I was a school teacher at the 
time and much to my surprise one day when we got our weekl
y reader there was a picture of our goup with a heading "What are these ladies 
doing".  The kids and I got a kick out of that.  Thanks for the memories.  
Kathy 

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