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| | Practice pays off for Berkeley rider in horse race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Kirsch, 33, became reacquainted with her love of horses when she and her husband, Christoph, who is working on his postdoctorate in computer science, came to UC Berkeley for his studies two years ago. |
 | | Because it is generally regarded as the toughest endurance horse race in the world, riders have to be "tough as nails" said Chuck Mather, president of the Western States Trail Foundation, who organized the event, now in its 49th year. |
 | | One reason for this change was last year's death of a horse ridden by an inexperienced rider along a narrow, rocky portion of the trail. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/25/EB303706.DTL&type=printable (853 words) |
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