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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1976
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Competition in local trail ride
Honors won by A&M students
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By LINDA HOWARD
A Texas A&M University student
probably would have been grand
champion of her first competitive
trail ride if it weren’t for her dad.
Debbie Neely, a senior in Animal
Science, took second place in her
division of the Second Annual Gal
loping Grapevine Ride for Research,
held last Saturday. Her father, John
Neely, won the whole works.
Debbie and her dad were compet
ing in a sport which is new to the
Brazos Valley—competitive trail rid
ing.
The ride was sponsored by the
Galloping Grapevine, a local news
letter for horse enthusiasts. Its
editors felt that competitive trail rid
ing woidd easily lend itself to fund
raising, and borrowed from the
“walkathon idea.
Twenty-one enthusiastic riders
set out to cover 30 miles on horse
back within 6V2 hours. They solicited
pledges in advance for each mile rid
den. Nineteen finished the ride,
raising $300 for horse research.
Tve never been on a competitive
trail ride before, but I would ride in
one again, said Dolph Morrison of
Fairfield, Tex., who rode the 30
miles with his 11-year-old daughter,
Kathy. Morrison explained that one
aspect of the ride that appealed to
him was its isolation from the
harassment of the telephone. “I’m a
very busy man, and my phone rings
more at home than at work. You can’t
put a phone on one of these,’ he
said, patting his horse.
Competitive trail riding combines
the pleasures of trail riding with
competition in an effort to determine
which rider has the best conditioned
horse. Riders who have ridden regu
larly and whose horses travel easily
tend to gather in the ribbons at
award ceremonies.
“Your horse’s endurance and way
of going—that’s what competitive
trail riding is all about,’’ said Doug
Rose of Bryan, who judged the
event.
The real competitor in competi
tive trail riding is the horse, not the
rider. Veterinarians check the
horse’s pulse, respiration, and tem
perature at different points during
the ride, and their findings ulti
mately determine the winners. All
riders who finish, even if it takes in
excess of 6V2 hours, receive a rib
bon. Prizes are also awarded for
horsemanship, sportsmanship, and
the best registered and unregistered
trail horse.
“If you trail ride anyway, why not
do it in competition?”, said Sandy
Portzer, a graduate student in the
Animal Science Department at
Texas A&M. This was Sandy’s sec
ond year to ride, and her Appaloosa,
Kimi’s, second “Best Registered
Trail Horse’ award.
Riders had different reasons for
competing. Some, like Morrison,
liked the inaccessibility and the
chance to be outdoors. Others liked
the training effect a long trail ride
has on a young horse. Several liked
the chance to participate in competi
tion with their horse outside show
ring.
“I like the informality, ” said Cindy
Wilke. “I don’t need show clothes.’
Sabra Hayes said she felt competi
tive trail riding was more easygoing
than showing. “You don’t have the
big knot in your stomach”’ she
added.
The riders all said they would
compete in this type of event again,
though not necessarily next week.
“I don’t think my posterior could
take it,” remarked one rider.
And Johnny Neely of Houston,
who went home with the Grand
Champion award as well as several
other prizes, said, “I believe I en
joyed this ride even more than I
thought I had.”
WEDNESDAY
Omega Phi Alpha, Rudder 501,
6:30 p.m. (active meeting).
Omega Phi Alpha, MSG 140A,
7:30 p.m. (pledge meeting).
Faculty Members of Phi Beta
Kappa, Harrington 204, 4 p.m.
Outdoor Recreation Committee
Canoeing Seminar, Rudder 510, 7
p. m.
Social Dance Club, MSG 224,
7:30 p.m.
SCONA Committee Membership
Interviews, MSG Student Programs
Office, (sign up for interview time).
Alpha-Pi-Mu, MSG 352, 7:30
p.m.
Society of American Military En
gineers, Rudder 504, 7:30 p.m.
Political Forum, Rep. John Wil
son, “The Public Vs. Utilities,”
Rudder 601, 1 p.m.
THURSDAY >
Centennial Assembly, Man and
Nature, Rudder 601, 8:30 a.m.
Cephied Variable, “Last Days of
Man on Earth, Rudder Theater, 8
and 10 p.m.
SCONA Committee Membership
Interviews, MSC Student Programs
Office, (sign up for interview time).
Economics Department, Semi
nar, Dr. Robert Glower, Library
226, 3:30 p.m.
Black Awareness Committee,
Donald Morris, “African History,”
MSC 224, 8 p.m.
Photo by Kandi
Mauri Dewey, 3rd'year vet student, checks the respiratim
rate of “Shiloh,” as rider/owner Johnny Neeley rests aftenj
30-mile ride. Chris Oefinger, farrier, keeps time for Mauri,
Johnny Shiloh won Grand Champion in the Ride for Researd
Saturday, which had 21 contestants.
Prisoner exchange
Group pushes for Soviet halt of whale /imt£s talks progressing well
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The Greenpeace Foundation, the
conservation group that has been
using small rubber boats to interrupt
whale-killing attempts by Soviet
fleets, has apparently been success
ful — at least, to a certain extent.
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Nikolai Makarov, a Soviet minis
ter in Ottawa, announced that Rus
sian ships will cease all whaling op
erations within two years. Makarov
admitted that possible serious “polit
ical consequences’ forced this deci
sion.
But workers for Greenpeace are
not ready to sit back and rest on their
laurels. A spokesperson for the
foundation s San Francisco branch
explained that if the Soviets continue
to “wipe out whales” for another two
years, as they have been doing,
there won’t be any whales left by the
time the ban goes into effect.
“If we can hurt the Russian whal
ers enough economically, they
might be stopped before then,” the
Greenpeace worker said.
Associated Press
HOUSTON — The U.S. Ambas
sador to Mexico says negotiations on
an exchange of prisoners between
the two countries are progressing
very well.
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