ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Tevis odds and ends

Re: Tevis odds and ends

Lucy Chaplin Trumbull (elsie@calweb.com)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:28:59 -0700

> Quickly, Best Condition went to Ona ??, a woman from Estacada,
> Oregon. Sorry, I don't have the rider list to verify her last name!
> It was her first Tevis!

6th 213 11:55 PM Ona Lawrence Estacata OR Dandy McCoy Arab

> Four riders who had come in top ten took the wrong trail and
> instead of retracing their way, went cross country.

AH, so what I heard was sort of correct. Do you know where they
got lost?

> So, they were
> bumped out of top ten, but the decision was to not disqualify them,
> but put them in as last finishers. This included Shirley Delsart,
> Mark Richtman, not sure of the others. Cassandra Schuler came in
> top ten but declined to present for best condition. We saw Shirley
> Delsart come in at the finish, and her horse looked just terrific!

That's what puzzled me - I couldn't see that the horse'd been pulled
at the finish, he looked fine.

> Nick Warhol. Nick showed a finish time, but they didn't announce
> his name at the awards ceremony. Nick, can you elaborate?

I looked out for Nick *all* day, but never saw him. He must
have been in diguise.

> We were doing temp and humidity all day, and we started at
> 10:00 at about 97 degrees. It cooled gradually to about 82.

I had it at 88oF when I left ~5pm. My husband was motorcycling
in the next canyon over and said that it was weird - the temp
variation was very great depending where you were in the canyon.

> Sue Flagg

I looked for Sue all day too, but never got to meet or see her...

> ...We got pulled between Auburn and Williams when our
> car became severly dehydrated.

<grin>

I didn't know you were so local, Karen! I thought you were
down in Central California...

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