APPOINTMENTS • NOVEMBER 2011
In the Saddle Western Carolina Hunter Pace and Trail Ride Series by Boots Plyler The Western Carolina Hunter Pace Series has been blessed with an abundance of good fall weather and the Green Creek Halloween Hunter Pace was no exception. The witches, goblins and frightening beasties that greeted the riders emerged from a backdrop of beautiful autumn foliage, which let all the participants know that the scary holiday had arrived. The course began through the woods and, like Little Red Riding Hood discovered, the woods held many unforeseen surprises. The first was a graveyard off to the right as you turned onto a path strewn with spiders, bats and other nightmare creatures. By the end of the ride, the horses were taking the decorations in their stride and the riders were the
Event results only ones jumping at the sudden appearances of the macabre. The course was very well marked and had several splits where the Field Hunter Division veered off on their own path and joined back up with the Trail Rider Division later. This allowed the hunters to have a longer ride of 10 and a half miles to the trail riders’ 6 and a half. The longer route also contained more jumps, though the short route had some nice smaller jumps for the less experienced or those on younger mounts. The trail had two water crossings that were well maintained with gentle approaches and good footing. The final descent was through a field where Lou Smith was busily snapping pictures and back to the trailers where mounts were untacked quickly, their riders lured by the aroma of grilling hotdogs.
FIELD HUNTERS The Field Hunter Division had a total of 72
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riders on 34 teams and was won by Lori Araki from Marshall, and Judi DeBeuf and Leslie Lattazio from Rutherfordton with a time of 1 hour, 37 minutes and 48 seconds. That was only seconds off the optimum time of 1 hour and 37 minutes. Coming in second were Steve Bardos and Angela Caimes from Central and Edneyville respectively in one hour, 35 minutes and 50 seconds. The third ribbon went to the Anderson duo of Brian and Carolyn MacCormack, and Marie Solomon from Newry with a time of 1 hour, 35 minutes and 43 seconds. The fourth place finishers were the team of Amy Gantt and Lisa Tyler of Seneca, who rode the course in 1 hour, 35 minutes and 39 seconds. Kimberly Olsen and Valerie Wrobel, who hail from Rutherfordton, came in fifth in 1 hour, 34 minutes and 30 seconds and the team from Shelby of Carol and Caroline Bridges were the sixth place winners
with a time of one hour, 33 minutes and 49 seconds.
TRAIL RIDERS The Trail Rider Division consisted of 95 riders on a total of 46 teams with an optimum time of 1 hour and 41 minutes. The winners were the team of Deanna Baldwin from Mills River, Lacey Hein of Hendersonville and Jason Tharp of Landrum, who had a ride time of 1 hour, 40 minutes and 45 seconds. In second place was the team of Amy Cooke of Bostic and Kristen Pearce from Rutherfordton with a time of 1 hour, 40 minutes and 39 seconds. Third place went to Campobello’s Lissa Spriggs and Skyler Warren, who came in at 1 hour, 39 minutes and 47 seconds. Victoria Bailey from Woodruff, Chris and Kelly Cannon from Moore, Tristyn Vincelette from Spartanburg, and Carly White of Moore were the fourth place team with a time of 1 hour, 42 minutes and 43 seconds.