Another year and I still don't have a horse that can cope with it ......if anyone is interested and has a horse and needs a runner ...let me know

Taylorsville is near Lake Almanor in N. California

That looks like so much fun! I hope you find a ride.

Did you find a ride?

from Ride & Tie
"38th Annual Ride & Tie World Championship Results
Fifteen Year-Old Becomes Youngest Champion in History
June 26 2008 – Plumas County, California – Sara Howard of Applegate, California,
became the youngest person ever to win the Ride & Tie World Championship this past
Saturday. She also enters the rarified ranks of women who have won the overall event:
there are only three female winners in the thirty-eight year history of the sport. And to the
satisfaction of this young athlete, she and her partner rode their steed, Magic Sirocco, to his
fourth Ride & Tie World Championship Best Condition award.
Howard, who runs high school cross country and track and competes in endurance riding,
teamed with her father Jim Howard for this, her first Ride & Tie World Championship effort.
Howard declined her prize money in order to maintain her amateur running status. At 53
years of age Jim Howard is a well known Masters ultrarunner and now a ten-time Ride & Tie
World Champion.
“Sara has been conditioning the horse for me for the past three years. She wanted to do
the Championship, which is all fine and exciting, but nerve wracking for me as a parent. It
is a risky sport.” Jim’s concerns finally eased only when the start of the race went smoothly.
“Our strategy worked. We put Sara out in the front of the team, where there would be less
potential commotion with other teams. I still wasn’t sure we were doing the right thing” he
said.
“My daddy ran a lot of it for me” reports Sara Howard. Their best estimate is that Sara ran
a total of 14 miles during the race; more than a normal workout, but certainly within the
scope of her training.
Prior to this year’s event, the record for the youngest win was held by a young man who
won the original Levi’s Ride & Tie in 1971 at the age of seventeen."

Congrats!

No, there were more runners than horses available I'm going to try again at the Coolest Ride & Tie , I'm entering the people race and will try to find a horse & rider looking for a runner . I hope I'll have a horse of my own ready for next year - the horses have to stand tied while other horses run past and it takes a good minded, steady horse to cope with that .

Just LOOKING at that picture makes my knees hurt! You are one tough broad, CL, yowza! And rather unbalanced, I might add, as well! Ducks, dives for cover!!

big slurps and much Gatorade,
Cyclone

Cy, I'm all soft and fluffy not tough at all . My friend , who is tough, did the Ride & Championship a couple years ago . She thought she'd got her cinch tight and started off , her horse got excited and started bucking . Her saddle slipped and down she went , she broke her arm , got back on the horse and finished the whole Ride & Tie , then got her arm set . Someday I hope to be as tough as she is

Well, then....perhaps I AM one tough *itch...two times in my life I went straight back to work (once on a horse farm and once at a factory, 12 hr. shifts of solid running on concrete floors) after breaking most of the smaller bones/toes in my feet. I also went right back to work the day after a lovely horse kicked my left thigh muscle loose from the bone. AND I was working with horses (NOT bright) less than one wk. after a total hysterectomy. That one might have to go down as my all time most ignorant ###### move! But did it and worked for hours out at barn! Who said I wasn't incredibly intelligent, eh? Oh, yah....musta been ME! snort...

CY....KOT....EKK