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My heart goes out to you and to Teresa, and to all who were involved.  A terrible tragedy.  I am so sorry, so very sorry this happened.

 

Carla Richardson

Colorado

 

On 9/12/07, paul@xxxxxxxxxxx <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Update on the wreck at Santa Fe Race.

I just talked to Teresa Wilcox on the phone.  Yesterday afternoon I had called (from Italy) to see how the ride was going for her and wound up talking to Richie, her boyfriend. He was shook up and on his way to the hospital. Today Teresa gave me the details she remembered.

They were racing into the finish line, and thought it had been moved a few hundred feet further.. Apparently people were standing around and cars were parked along the road, so the riders assumed that there was a traffic control there. Apparently Richie has photos of them racing in laughing and grinning right before it happened.

Neither one saw the car until the last second, and it was too late to do anything. Teresa remembers flying over the car and hitting the ground.. When people came up, she didn't want to be moved, but was ok. She is bruised up and has some road rashes.  She wants out of the hospital, but is not sure if she will continue on the ride. She sounded like she was still in a bit of shock to me, but I am a long ways from there and not a Doctor.  Obviously she is heartsick over the loss of her horse. When it first happened, nobody would tell her how he was.

Mr Valentine was her horse, purchased this summer from Katy Tynes. He was a nice horse with all his future in front of him. I rode him on his first 50  at the Jo Tate ride this May.  He was a sweetheart and had a lot of athletic ability. Teresa had planned for him to be her endurance competition horse for the next 5-10 years.... They had bonded and he was just getting better for him.


That's all  I know about it.

Paul N. Sidio


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