Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!203!11!Vixen
From: Vixen@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: THE TEVIS CUP RIDE
Message-ID: <13294@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 90 21:04:15 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Reply-To: Vixen@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 1:203/11 - S.I.R.E.N. NET-MAIL, Sacramento CA
Lines: 31
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 9623

 
 
Hi Bill,
 
Alright! Another person who knows what I am talking about! I thought it might be a shot in the dark, but see, you just never can tell.
 
I wanted to do the Tevis Cup ride years ago when I was more Abled and I had a beautiful but spirited (yet still awesome on the trail) Morab! She was just perfect and I know I could have done the 100 miler with her and made it! (Unless "I" collapsed heheh!) 
 
She was a beautiful horse registered both with the "American Part-Blooded Horse Registry" and the newer (at that time), "Morab Registry." For those that haven't figured it out, a Morab is a horse that is half Morgan Horse and half Arabian, They have the extreme endurannce of both the Morgan and Arabian and usually look more like Arabians in confirnation but perhaps a bit heftier than pure Arabians.
 
My Morab was Chestnut with a Star strip and snip and had some cutting horse training before I got her. She could be flighty yet she would do just awesome trail work. She was highly pedigreed with a great lineage on her sires side and Traces back to Don Jubilee and earlier Morgan ancestry. In other words, she was neat.
 
At this point, I don't have my own horse anymore and I would probably have to find someone or a ranch than might like to sponsor me by providing a horse capable of this endeavor!  I would obviously have to have sighted volunteers who would be willing to assist me at times.
 
Perhaps it is a lot to ask, but I figure if I am willing to go for it that there just might be someone who would like to see someone like myself take this challenge on and would be willing to help.
 
As I said earlier, I don't know if other disABLED riders have attempted or completed this ride before and I need to know if the Tevis people would even consider letting someone like myself take a shot at it, even with assistance. But I sure as heck intend to find everything I can about this. Any information you can share with me, will be greatly appreciated Bill!
 
 
Keepin' the faith!
 
 
.                            Vixen
 
 

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!203!11!Vixen
Internet: Vixen@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org