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FW: [RC] Regarding the Mongol Derby - K. Riordan - Mike Sherrell


Can't the same be predicted about at least on of the Tevis horses? Maybe not
every year, but some years.

Regards,

Mike Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical (USA)
www.grizzlyanalytical.com
707 887 2919; fax = 707 887 9834

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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of k s swigart
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 5:12 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] Regarding the Mongol Derby - K. Riordan


Kate Riordan said:

Here's what is predictably going to happen should this ride continue.

Mongolian horses ridden that distance under these conditions will: 

Die of dehydration
Die of colic
Die of azoturia
Die of exhaustion
Become crippled
Founder
Sustain foot and lameness injuries that will lead to death

And she knows this because this is what happens to horses that do Tevis?

Kate Riordan
Member, Board of Governors (1999 to present) Western States Trail 
Foundation

Personally, I think the Western States Trail Foundation should be very
careful about the vitriole that they sling about with regards to the Mongol
Derby as there are many people who will (and perhaps with some validity) say
that it is rather like the pot calling the kettle black.? If Mongolian
horses shouldn't be asked to go 25 miles, then American horses most
definitely shouldn't be asked to go 100 miles...after all look at all the
horrible things that can happen to them (and at Tevis, they also risk
falling off a cliff...in the dark).

I am disappointed that the WSTF seems to be allowing itself to be used as a
pawn by the Long Riders Guild who appear to me to be a handful of indivuals
who, like spoiled children, are throwing a trantrum because they were being
ignored.

And if Kate Riordan is not speaking for the WSTF, then they need to tell her
to stop using their name in vain.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)

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