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I know someone else mentioned there had been a lot of rain.  When I arrived 
Thursday evening the University actually had a portable pump going to drain 
a section of the trails that were under water. This left a lot of exposed 
roots and rocks that simply weren't there the prior weekend when management 
marked the trails. (The flood, not the pump, LOL)
Central Region has had more than it's share of "Acts of God" impacting rides 
this year. TWO rides had to be canceled so far this year. I can only 
remember 1 cancellation in the last 17 years! At least this one was able to 
give riders the opportunity to take on the challenge.
I'd also liked to add that I heard the twisty trails in the SHADED woods 
didn't give a lot of opportunity to make up time.   Unlike the HOT, OPEN 
location the ride was moved from........due partly to rider 
complaints.........

Nancy Mitts

> Someone wanted to know why so many pulled at the Ok ride in June.  I can't 
> say for most but imagine the twisty trail and uneven terrain got some.  I 
> only rode part of the first loop when my horse pulled off the easyboot as 
> well as his shoe and a good part of his hoof wall early in the ride.  He 
> just wasn't paying attention like he should have been and tripped over a 
> root or rock.  With a lot of horses on the narrow twisty trail it was hard 
> to get them to watch out and not want to be in the other horse's tail.  A 
> lot of the non finishers were overtime.  I think a lot of new riders 
> entered the 50 in hopes of getting a 50 in to qualify for the Sante Fe 
> Horse Ride.  I helped at the vet check after I pulled and some riders there 
> didn't have a clue what was going on even though ride management gave a 
> good beginning rider talk on Friday night and handed out a packets with 
> very useful information to the new riders. I also think some riders might 
> have underestimated the humid weather
> since it felt so cool to the riders starting out on the ride but the 
> humidity was very high.  Also some of the horses had been going hard to 
> rides every other weekend since Feb. so that might have been a factor in 
> the lameness pulls.  I also heard from a very experienced rider that she 
> liked the trail a lot and I also liked what I rode of it.  I plan to go 
> back next year to this ride and hope I get to ride all of the trail this 
> time.  I don't think the ride was all that difficult and from most who rode 
> it said they enjoyed it as well.  Normally this ride wouldn't have had over 
> 50 starters on the 50 but since a ride in TX two weeks before was cancelled 
> the ride picked up a lot of TX riders that normally would have done the two 
> day ride in TX instead.  My young horse didn't have any problem completing 
> the 25 and he was ridden by a friend of mine and this was the first time 
> anyone except me had ridden him on a ride and it was only his 3rd ride.  
> Happy Trails, Kathy

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