You wrote
>
>In the past few years we have seen records broken and courses run faster than
>ever with "fat" horses. In 1994 Valerie Kanavy won a 100 I belive in
>Mississippi running the two or three other horses..doing the last 16 miles (I
>think) in, if I remember right less than 1/2 hour. All of her competition
>was right on her tail. Her horse Pieraz, aka Cash, is not skinny. Watch the
>USET tape on the '94 Wolrd games and you can see her win and Cash. He won
>again this year in Kansas and looked great at the end (as did Fire, whom
>Valerie rode..her daughter, Danielle rode Cash to the win by a head).
>
That was just not any "race to the finish". The other two with Valerie
were Nina Warren and Ballad who won the '94 ROC (45 minutes ahead of
Valerie and Cash) and Malissa Crain and Whoa Jack who won the 93 ROC and
top tenned the 96 WEG. So it was a great race between great horses. The
last 16 mile loop at Long Leaf is a dirt/clay road loop. Fast, flat and
fast and it is really 16 miles.
Truman
Truman Prevatt
Sarasota, FL