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Show Page 6 5 Thursday, July 12, 1979 2 Ride And Tie Is The exciting shotgun star, of this year's Ride and Tie race is but two days away, and the athletes and horses are rising to the occasion by stepping up their already frenetic pace. Talk among the competitors com-petitors now ranges from high carbohydrate loading to last minute discussions of tie locations. But all will gear down to a sleepless Friday night before the 9 a.m. Deer Valley start. Finally, after months of preparation, both mental and physical, it's here. The race will be a gruelling 30-mile affair that will find the entrants grappling grap-pling their way up rocky paths that top off at over 9,200 feet and making the muscle-tiring descent to 7,100 feet and the welcome finish at the Homestead in Midway. It is a race patterned after the days of yesteryear when less-than-affluent cowboys had one horse to share and a long way to go. It was a common method of travel back in those days, and there are printed references to it in England as early as 1743. The principle is simple: two people could share one horse if they carefully conserved con-served its strength. Back then, and recreated Saturday, Satur-day, one person begins riding, the other running. After a predetermined distance, the rider ties the horse to a tree or bush and takes off running, while the horse rests. The running partner eventually comes upon the rested horse, jumps on and rides past his friend. The leapfrogging allows both people to travel the same distance, while the horse is provided with essential rests. , Saturday morning there will be a Calvary-like start in Deer Valley, to which spectators spec-tators are encouraged to come and lend their moral support. Great clouds of dust will gather like small tornadoes tor-nadoes as riders and runners hightail it toward Bald Mountain. Spectators may take the Guardsman Pass road to Midway and the Homestead and view the race along the way. But it is strongly urged that special care be taken not to interfere with the race, as the course in some places closely parallels the road. The course will take a circuitous cir-cuitous route past Lone Hill and the Midway Reservoir, through Pine Creek Canyon, past the campground and youth camp in Wasatch Mountain State Park, snaking along Snake Creek past the powerhouse and Park City Junior Golf Winners 9 and under 1st Geoff Williams 10-11 years 1st Pat Jarosz 61 2nd KyleShields-65 12-13 years 1st Mike Jarosz 52 2nd Marty Mandrell 60 14-15 yean 1st Pat Robinson 49 2nd JeffScott-5l Park City Men' Golf Winners Low Gross 1st Leonard Jarosz 40 Fred Marshall 40 Low Net 1st David Thomas 34 'his Saturday Tubing Hill, on to Big Flat' and a long descent through Faucett Canyon before tin finish at the Homestead. During the course of the race there will be periodic veteranarian checks of the horses. Park City veterinarian Buzz Marden talked about the importance of the medical examination of the horses during the rigorous ri-gorous event. "We rely on each contestant con-testant to have some savvy about his horses's condition and whether it becomes too tired during the race," Dr. Marden said. "This is meant to be fun, and our job is to make sure that no one is hurt and that no horses become super sick during the event." Dr. Marden commented that on Saturday there will be as many as four veterinarians at the inspections, inspec-tions, who will be helped by four assistants and as many veterinarian students. Their medical examination of the horses will begin on Friday between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Deer Valley with a pre-event check. That initial inspection will be to determine if the horse has been sufficiently trained to finish the race, if it is in sound condition and not lame, and to offer pre-race adivce to the anxious entrants. en-trants. On Saturday there will be a Trot By at Lone Hill a self explanatory term that requires the rider to trot the horse past the veterinarians to ensure that it is not lame and is still interested in continuing. con-tinuing. If the doctors detect a problem, the horse and rider will be pulled to the side for further examination. The first full vet check will be in Pine Creek Canyon. There, Dr. Marden said, will be the first true test of the months of training. Each contestant wil' likely have a pit crew, whose job it will be to cool the horse down as rapidly as possible to a heart rate and pulse of 72 beats per minute. Some crews will measure this rate with stethoscopes, while others will use stop watches. It is critical that crews to not jump the gun and take a horse for inspection which has not attained the proper pulse and respiration rate. The penaity is a ten-minute delay before a re-check will be made. Three such failures results in a disqualification. Most teams will use the veterinarian checkpoints as an opportunity to switch riders. And while the vets check the horse, some members mem-bers of the pit crews will be massaging muscles of the next runner and offering glasses of water and words of encouragement. Golf Results - 1 -- ---- v - Junior League Golfers Ladies Golf League Winners July 3rd Handicap Tournament dropping 3 highest holes per nine. 18 Holers 1st Cindy Hale 2nd June Kryger 3rd JuneDearing Mary Smith 4th Thelda Williams 9 Holers 1st Jeanne Nuneviller 2nd Teddy Reeves 3rd Jill Johnson Ruth Green 4th Bonnie Harry Jy 1 Ml'- t? mil 1 is In addition to the heart and respiration rate, the medical teams will be checking other indicators of the horse's condition. Among them will be hyration the amount of fluid in the horse's body. This is accomplished by pinching pin-ching the skin of the horse at its shoulder. If he is dehydrated, the skin will stand up like dried leather. If he is hydrated well, the skin will snap back into place. Next will be the check of the horse's attitude if he appears to be depressed or lethargic, or excited and interested in-terested in things happening around him and anxious to eat. Last, the doctors will check the horse's gait to see if it is lame or favoring a leg. If the pit crews have done their job well and have rested, cooled and watered their horse, the vet check should last only a few minues. An overly anxious crew, however, can cause a race-losing setback. Next there will be another Trot By at the Tubing Hill. "They will be coming out of the youth camp in Wasatch State Park up Snake Creek Canyon to the Tubing Hill," Dr. Marden said. "And that whole pass is a real bitch. ii will require a lot of endurance and we want to see if anyone is in trouble when they reach the top." It's then another climb to Big Flat and the second full scale vet check. Then higher still to 8,400 feet before the racers drop into Faucett Canyon. A spring will refresh horses and runners before the home stretch to the finish line. "It's an absolutely beautiful course," Dr. Mar Ladies Golf League Winners July 10th 18 Holers Low Gross 1st 2nd JuneDearing Elly Roach Marsha Waflever J Low Net ; Mary Smith Margaret Regan I 1st 2nd 9 Holers Low Gross Daisy Graham Cindy HaleJ Low Net J Trudy Pi va Janet Larseiu 1st 1st 2nd ! o den said. "It's too bad that the racers will be too tired to enjoy it! It is much more difficult dif-ficult than last year's course. The trail obstructions are not as bad, but the altitude and summits will take their toll." Out-of-town entrants have begun to arrive in Park City for pre-race training in the mountains. The excitement is mounting. After the pre-race pre-race v.-t check Friday afternoon, after-noon, there will be a participants par-ticipants meeting at 5 p.m. in Deer Valley, followed at 6 p.m. by a trail marshal's meeting. Then the start at 9 a.m. Saturday. Spectators are invited to come to the Homestead in Midway to await the first finishers, who could arrive as early as 12:00. Beginning at noon, beer, soda and . watermelon will be available for the anxious waiters. Beginning at 4 p.m., when all contestants are expected to have finished, there will be a real Western barbeque for $6.50 per person, complete with all the trimmings. The Homestead has graciously donated $1 from each barbeque ticket to the Ride and Tie winnings. Following the awards ceremony in which cash prizes and bronze buckles designed by Park City jeweler Dick Doty, will be presented, there will be a hoedown to the beat of the Silver Creek Dirt Band. Despite the months of agonizing preparation and the mental and physical strain of the event itself, Saturday evening promises to be a foot stomping, hoot 'n hollerin celebration of a job well done. Don't miss it! 9 If 7f f ' 'Zi I ' 1 Tee MdHi MM V F f Vt I .iS: b, W-t. jV Constant Ball Position ! By Bud Tonnesen In order to have a consistent swing and con stant ball flight we must position the ball in ap proximately the same Many golfers carelessly play the ball back on one shot and forward on the next, and wonder why they play inconsistently. The proper position for heel too far back and forward and we'll hook it. A consistent ball position produces consistent shots. 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