Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Ruby's passing
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:36:00 +0200
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+1 I've never meet her and I would add my condolences too

Lluis


El 25/09/2013, a las 21:13, afirkin at afirkin.com escribi?:

> Not trivial to those who knew her. Our condolences on your family's loss.
> 
> Alastair and Helen
> 
> 
> This is indeed trivial after hearing about Gerry's wife Pat. I have
>> lived long enough to lose parents, relatives, siblings, and most of my
>> friends so I know how devastating an unexpected death can be. Again,
>> Gerry, you have my sincere condolences.
>> 
>> My niece's one eyed race horse, Ruby, died over the weekend of equine
>> encephalitis. Ruby was the granddaughter of Seattle Slew but because
>> she had lost an eye as a colt none of the large stables wanted to buy
>> her. She was destined for a can of Alpo until my niece put in a low bid
>> to claim her. Ruby showed real promise as a race horse. Not too good in
>> the middle of the pack because of her poor depth perception but once
>> she got in front, no other horse could catch her. She won her sixth
>> race of the year on August 27 and was prepping for the next race to be
>> run Saturday, Sept. 21 when she sickened and died. My niece told me she
>> cried almost as much for the death of her horse as she did for her
>> mother.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Ruby.JPG.html
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Ruby+racing.JPG.html
>> Larry Z
>> 
>> 
>> 
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