Re: Mallpractice (804 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: November 20, 2002 10:05PM
This is a complete non-sequitor, but:
When Julie was starting out she rode first call for John Forbes in New Jersey, and Forbes was training a lot of horses I was managing. One day she was riding an allowance sprinter called Lauren's Quest, and as they straightened out for home the horse collapsed. Julie was in tears, and said she had heard something snap, and begged anyone who would listen to "please put him out of his misery."
Well, not exactly. Turned out the horse had heat exhaustion, got up, came back to run and win 7 days later, and several more times.
But-- she was a terrific rider, and you have to love a gal who hits a rival jock who almost dropped her with a chair in a jock's room brawl.
TGJB