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Bracket Battle of Event Horses: ROUND 1 Cont.

Today we bring you the Davidson Region (3) Heyday against (6) Out and About, with another classic Aussie/Kiwi battle between (3) True Blue Girdwood and (6) Messiah.  Virginia Tech is still complaining about being excluded from our tournament, but the selection committee is satisfied with the participants they have chosen; VT simply didn't have the FEI record to justify their inclusion. 

You know the deal.  Vote for your favorite, then discuss your pick in the comment section, we love hearing stories!  Or complaints and whining, if you so choose.  By the way, Duke Sucks.  [Ed. note: sorry for that comment, it was entirely unnecessary.]  [Writer note: but it's true!]

Highlighted comments from Monday:
From Jo:
I voted for Teddy for all the reasons Amanda and Kim gave, but I have to admit to more than a twinge of disappointment for Tex.....he, once again, has the bad luck to be the bridesmaid and overshadowed by his flashier competition. Hardly fair to a good horse.

From the Anonymous:

I HAD to vote for Giltedge. 6 medals for the US team? How many horses win even one? It is not his fault that he was overshadowed and ended up on 2 Olympic teams with no chance of individual glory. The pony will probably win because he was memorable and had a fan club, but as another poster noted above, Giltedge had an AMAZING career which few will equal.


Anonymous also had more to say....

Murphy Himself needs to win this entire bracket. Best. Event Horse. Ever.


YESTERDAY'S RESULTS:

As the bracketologists predicted, poor (3)Giltedge once again faded into the background as the (6)Super Pony stole the spotlight and advances on to the Sweet Sixteen to face (2) Custom Made.  On the other side, (6) Murphy Himself bested (3) King William, proving that the legacy of a dazzling cross-country horse will always live on.  Murphy will face (7) Supreme Rock in the next round; the experts say Murphy will leave a two strides out on his way past Supreme Rock into the Elite 8.


DAVIDSON REGION

(3) HEYDAY

Heyday enjoyed a long, prosperous career, first competing at Advanced when he was six years old, and finishing 13 long-format three-day events in the top 20.  He was yet another plain, average bay with above-average talent for Bruce Davidson.  In 1995 they won the PanAms, and earned the team silver medal at the 1996 Olympics (9th individually).  The next year, he earned second at Blenheim CCI***.  An 8th place finish at Rolex in 1998 sent him to the WEG, as part of the bronze medal winning US team.  From 2000-2003, Heyday partnered with Young Rider Maisy Grassie.  Heyday's success continued as he showed her the ropes from prelim to advanced, winning the NAYRC CCI* championship along the way.

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(6) OUT AND ABOUT

At only 8 years old, "Outie" won the individual bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta with Kerry Milliken.  A classic American thoroughbred, running and jumping was definitely his forte.  In 1997, the pair placed 7th at Burghley and won team bronze in the 1998 WEG as the highest-placed Americans on the team.  Finishing up his career, Out and About was 3rd at Badminton in 1999.   





AUSSIE/KIWI REGION


(3) TRUE BLUE GIRDWOOD

True Blue Girdwood "Jug head" or just "Jug" was the only horse Phillip brought with him when he moved to the US in 1991.  Phillip says Jug the horse who really brought him onto the world stage.  True Blue Girdwood represented Australia in 1996 Olympics, winning team Gold in Atlanta, and also competed with Phillip at the '94 & '98 WEGs, Rolex, and Badminton (placing 6th in 1995).  After his career with Phillip, Jug mentored several of Phillip's students as a schoolmaster.


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(6) MESSIAH

Blyth Tait converted Messiah from a show jumper in the late 1980's.  By 1992, the pair won the individual and team Gold at the WEGs in Stockholm.  Tait and Messiah won the Bronze at Barcelona, moving up from 69th after the dressage and helping the New Zealand team win Silver as well.  Blyth described Messiah as having a 'fragile' temperment and said that the horse got harder to ride at competitions as he got older.






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Messiah was an incredible horse. He was last after the dressage on 78.8 at Barcelona Olympics as he was lame and only had a shoe on mins before. A fantastic xc round and clear showjumping catapulted him into bronze medal and team silver. Messiah was terrified of water and it was only patience that sorted out this issue. Helso influence Blyth's style in water jumps of very exagerated sitting back. The horse photographed is Ricochet.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/071530996X/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books Messiah is top left.

I LOVE that you are doing this. It makes us remember the horse as the power and not the rider all the time!!!

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By the way... DUKE really does suck.

friends should always wear white shirts turn


clothes closet there are several pieces of yellow, always thought it was not clean! Now we finally know, and there are ways to deal with, very pleased

(1) clothes will turn yellow, mostly due to weaker fluorescent agent, you want to restore white and bright clothing, you have to find ways.
rice washing water + orange peel simple and effective:
keep rice washing water or orange peel into the cooking pot, add water, after which the yellow scrub the clothes soak for clothing can easily restore white. Not only simple, like the market to sell the fluorescent whitening agent on the skin side effects and does not hurt the cloth, is worth a good way.
yellow sweat stains produced with ammonia removal:
sweat produced by perspiration because sweat contains fat, easy to condense in the cloth fibers, so wash by adding about 2 tablespoons of ammonia , soak a few minutes, scrub it, then washed with water, according to common laundry procedures, you can remove the yellow sweat myself!
(2) Sometimes, the white light-colored clothes, long time, clothes or the color will turn yellow, causing yellowing of white or light-colored clothing is mainly due to the secretion of human body fat, especially polyester fabric clothing, more yellowing. There are also residual fertilizer washing waste (most notably the end of ketones found in flax fiber), if not clean, make clothes and a large area of ​​yellow. For this phenomenon there are ways to get rid of, for example, washing clothes in the washing temperature, the extensive use of cleaning agents. A traditional approach is to yellowing of clothes hanging in the hot sun exposure, but before that, should the fresh lemon juice at the yellowing, add salt and gently rub.
Warning: Be careful operation, avoid the use of chlorine bleaching agent. Spandex, silk, wool and other fabrics, contact with chlorine bleaching agents will make it more yellow.
(3) If you put a long white dress clothes will become yellow, yellow stains on the main constituents of proteins, spinach after the release of soluble proteins after boiling the ingredients oh.
1, buy a spinach, after the hot water hot, the spinach and finish, leaving only soup stand
2, where the yellow stains rub the water into the spinach in water for 10 minutes 3, picked up after soaking clothing, laundry procedures in a normal wash clothes. complete. White clothing and resumed a!
Laundry Tips Collection:
1, clean white, white socks
stubborn stains on white clothing is difficult to eradicate, this time after taking a lemon slice boil water put the white clothes to water immersion, about 15 minutes after cleaning can be.
2, washing clothes sometimes smell

for drying clothes shall not be treated, there will be unpleasant sour sweat, take white vinegar mixed with water, soak a taste of clothes about five minutes, then put the clothes in the ventilation to dry on it!
3, pen and India to deal with the clothes down on alcohol
first fountain pen scratches on clothes, every scratch on both the uniform coverage of alcohol, alcohol concentration to use not less than 75% medicine with alcohol. Down on the clothes for the release of the alcohol, try not to touch the clothes of the other side, or the mark of a pen or ball-point pen may be dyed to the color of the rest of the clothes. Washbasin with ordinary, more than half a basin of water ready for the next two caps full of bleach to the water poured in the water, pay attention to the job must be a full two caps. Take along to do mixing, then add a little detergent, the amount of your own hands. Slightly even after mixing, so that washing powder to fully dissolve in water. Well, now clothes are soaked in water, time is twenty minutes. Time to, cleaning clothes, a little mark is gone!
If the pen marks and traces of heavy, using the above method if the surviving ruins, and finally add soap and gently rub with toothpaste, then rinse. (But non with open blisters!
Clothing stained with ballpoint pen marks there is another solution: that is, do not rush to put the clothes into the water, but the first wash with gasoline touches the part of the wash.
4, washing clothes on the way to a soy sauce stain
: need to use sugar, first place the dirt soaked with water, then sprinkle with a spoonful of sugar, rub their hands, we can see traces of soy sauce has been a part of sugar stains, then wash with water, can remove stains.
Option two: the need to use baking soda would be a white vest soaked in soy sauce stained the place painted soda stains, wash with water after 10 minutes net, you can get rid of soy sauce stains.
Option three: the need to use fresh lotus root, lotus root with a knife to cut fresh, fresh lotus root juice applied to the track at the soy sauce, 10 minutes after washing in water, can be removed soy sauce stains out.
5, washing clothes, painting

paint rubs on clothes how to do it? method is to wipe the sticky oil cooler parts of the paint, because the cool oil soluble substances contained in paint, after the rinse. If coated with water-soluble paint (such as water-soluble paint, latex paint) and home interior paint, a wash water that is lost in time; if nylon fabric is stain the paint can be painted lard rub, and then use detergent immersion, water drift net.
6, clean grass stains
you need to prepare one hundred grams of salt, in addition you also need to prepare 1000 g of water. the water into the container, by hand stir well, the clothes will be stained with grass stains into the pot, soak in salt water for 10 minutes. the clothes into the washing in the water, then you will find, easy on the stubborn grass stains can be washed off. 7, cleaning stained clothes in the washer
into the warm, start the washing machine rinse, add 84 disinfectant, add about one-third water bottle Bangang disinfectant, dilute solution, into clothes, cover machine cover, rinse about 25 minutes, 25 minutes later remove clothing, clothes to dry, you restore the original color of the.
If you want to avoid the clothes do not fade, bought back the new Yiyi, must put some in the water salt (one teaspoon of a bucket of water), rinse with water immediately after washing to clean, do not soak too long Oh! Finally, do not in the sun exposure, sun Oh will dye denaturation should be cool, well ventilated place to dry.
8, cleaning blood

just addicted, they should immediately wash with cold water or salt water (to disable hot water, because of the blood containing proteins, when heated, will be solidified, not easy to melt), then soap or 10% potassium iodide solution to clean;
white radish juice or mashed carrots mixed with salt to remove clothing Jieke blood;
with 10% tartaric acid solution to wipe at the stain, then wash in cold water;
with enzyme detergent to remove blood stains, very good;
longer if the stain can be used 10% of the ammonia or 3% hydrogen peroxide to wipe dirt Department, after a while, then wash in cold water and strong If still not clean, then 10-15% of the oxalic acid solution, washed, and finally rinse with water.
whether the new track, thing of the past, can be cleaned with sulfur soap rub.
smear with oil paint on hands blood, the stay time of 15 minutes, wash in soap with water can be.
9, easy to wash clothes on the moldy

The weather was hot the air is humid, or when the season changed, washed mildew is easy to point the clothes, especially the white dress, long on the moldy if it is very depressing thing.
does not matter to deal with these moldy, there are many ways:
bean sprouts; the tender Green bean sprouts on the moldy, hands rub hard, is not clean, some of it? recapture some of the green bean sprouts and then rub, hum, a lot of color and light, and then twist, Hard work pays off, there is no mildew Finally rinse with water, ha ha, it's that simple, the problem solved;
Mildew on clothing can be in the sun, after the mold clean hair brush, and then alcohol washed;
to be sp spot contaminated clothing into the thick soapy water impregnated with soap water out, dry in the sun will set, repeated drying times, mildew to be cleared, and then water drift net;
silk clothing available citric acid washed with cold water after bleaching;
hemp fabric mildew stains, use calcium chloride solution for cleaning;
wool can also be used mustard stains on the solution or borax (a bucket of water and add 2 tablespoons mustard or borax two tablespoons) washing;
soap with 2% alcohol solution (250 grams of alcohol in soap flakes plus a soft, stirring uniform) clean and then use bleach 3-5% sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide to clean, and finally washed. This approach restricted to white clothing, thing of the past in the solution soak 1 hour.
10, cleaned the red, gentian violet

red medicine stains can be washed with white vinegar, then with water drift net; In addition to pollution at the first red syrup soaked with glycerine scrub, and then washed repeatedly ammonia soap, if adding a few drops of dilute acetic acid solution, then soap and water wash, the better;
processing gentian violet stains, can be a small amount of sodium hydrosulfite diluted with water, with a small brush dipped in the solution to clean. repeated scrubbing with sodium hydrosulfite and water until the addition to the net (gross sticky material, change the dye clothing, silk materials and direct dye colors disabled Oh!!) 11, Yiyi cleaning plaster
sometimes rub on the plaster can add a few drops of alcohol (wine or sorghum can be), on the stained plaster stains rub the place until the plaster to the net, then rinse , or with alum baking off the end of kneading, and then washed also;
can also be eaten spread on the dirt at the base surface, add some warm water, rub a few times, you can remove. If the base surface heating within the home Tieshao spread to the dirt after the Department, coupled with warm water Kneading decontamination faster.
12, washing clothes yellowed

In fact, the clothes will turn yellow, mostly weaker fluorescent agent, you want clothing Recovery bright white, you have to find ways.
rice washing water + orange peel simple and effective:
keep rice washing water or orange peel into the cooking pot, add water, it will yellow scrub the clothes soak them on can easily make clothes to restore white. not only simple, like the market to sell the fluorescent whitening agent on the skin side effects and does not hurt the cloth, is worth a try in a good way;
resulting yellow sweat stains, use ammonia removal: sweat sweat produced, because the sweat that contains fat, easy to condense in the cloth fibers, so wash by adding about 2 tablespoons of ammonia, soak a few minutes, scrub it, then wash with water , according to common laundry procedures, you can remove the yellow sweat myself!
13, cleaning beer, Jiuzi
new infectious yellow stains, scrub the place clean water immediately off.
thing of the past can be washed with water, then 2% borax mixture of ammonia and rubbing washing, the final washing rinse; rice wine thing of the past, in washed with water, then 5% borax solution and 3% hydrogen peroxide to wipe pollution, and the last with water drift net.
14, cleaning juice stains can be printed
new brine wipe dirt at, or immediately sprinkle salt in the dirt at hand Qingcuo, immersed in a detergent solution after wetting with water in the wash, warm water, rub soap can also be used in addition to a strong wash;
thing of the past re-trace and cleared, first with 5% ammonia and organic acids in fruit juices, and then use detergent. containing wool fiber blends may have tartaric acid cleaning;
such as fabric is white, 3% hydrogen peroxide in to add a few drops of ammonia, with a cotton ball or cloth dipped in this solution will stain at the wetting, and then a clean cloth wipe, dry;
with 3-5% sodium hypochlorite solution at wiping stain, and then water drift net. If the thing of the past, it can be soaked in the solution over 1-2 hours, then scrub, bleach net;
trace of peach juice, because it contains high iron, so the addition of oxalic acid solution. stains on persimmon, immediately rub with wine and brine, then warm detergent solution to clean, water drift net;
first scrape off dried tomato sauce can trace, with warm detergent. jam can be wetted with water to get shampoo scrub, then wash with soap wine semen, rinse with water.
15, the household cleaning rust
live is not often encounter this?
take fresh lemons, squeeze the juice can drip in the hand rub on the rust stains, repeated several times, until the rust stains to remove, then soapy water.
16 , cleaning of the iodine stain iodine
starch wet rub can be used (starch case of iodine was immediately black), and then gently wash away the soap.
iodine stains light water or alcohol, potassium iodide solution, rub swab can also be used. 15-20% concentration of stains can be immersed in warm solution of soda, about 2 hours, then rinse.
17, mimeographed
When cleaning wool or printed fabrics stained with ink, you should first rinse with hot water or boiling water, then scrub with soap and water, then water drift net, you can clean. Do not wash with cold water, because this will color immersed in fiber, very difficult to wash.
18, clean butter yellow grease for Indian

the main component of fat, alcohol or ammonia can then be washed.
19,
needs cleaning lipstick make-up JM, estimated fear is the lipstick off clothes rubs up against friends;
contracted lipstick, to use a small brush dipped in petrol brush gently rub grease to the net after the warm detergent solution and then washed;
If there is no gas bubble can also be used with mineral water or soda water cocktail, pour in a clean cloth with prints on the pat where it is effective Oh!
20, cleaning tea and coffee stains
be Tea, coffee, these beverages contaminated clothing, immediately wash with 70-80% of hot water can be removed.
old tea tracks, can be concentrated salt water immersion, or with ammonia and glycerin mixture (1: 10) Kneading. silk and wool fabrics to disable ammonia, 10% glycerol solution, rubbing, washing detergent and then rinse.
trace of the old tea and coffee, can wipe glycerol and egg yolk mixture, a little dry with water drift net. or to the spot coated with glycerin, then sprinkle a few grains of borax with water immersion. also with diluted ammonia, borax warm water to clean.
old coffee stains 3% hydrogen peroxide solution wipe, and then washed with water, can also be cleaned with salt or glycerol solution.
21, remove the candle oil
first gently scrape the surface wax with a knife, and then were asked to use toilet paper two up and down in the dirt , with iron iron two or three times, with the iron to heat the wax melt fiber cloth, toilet paper molten wax is absorbed. repeated several times, candles mimeographed addition to the net.
22, place gum: chewing gum stuck to the clothes, you can use vinegar, cotton stick, the gum can be easily erased;
of chewing gum on the trace of clothing, can be the first scrape with a knife, wiping the egg take sites on the The loose, and then wipe them one by one, and finally washed in soapy water, wash with water;
first clothes can also be wrapped in plastic bags, placed in the refrigerator freezer a long time, and so hardened chewing gum on clothes taken out, gently rubbing, chewing gum out quickly, but not a trace!
23, Qiao washed white sneakers shoes

mentioned, you may also have had the same troubles hard to wash clean dried white sneakers, but there such a yellow mark, really ugly ah! Miss Yu enthusiastic audience may wish to try this trick provided, so that white shoes are still washed it white as new!
first with soap or detergent wash clean the shoes, the washing shoes soaked in beer for three minutes before the shoes to get the balcony, in the shade, and on the upper cover with toilet paper, dry! effect is obvious Oh!
24, How to wash towels
towel used for a long time, often wet and sticky, rub the salt can be used after washing with water, you can remove the wet sticky thing.
25, to remove pen stains
A friend online message asking traces due to oxalic acid is weak acid, will not corrode clothing.

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