Jack Meyer: Hero to Horses
This is not a running story, per se, but it’s a great story about a local runner doing a good deed, for a, er, steed.
Jack Meyer, an ultra-marathon runner from Foresthill, Calif., went beyond the call of duty, when the Tevis volunteer rescued a black Anglo-Arab mare that had fallen into a ravine. Christoph Schork’s 9-year-old Castle Country Karahty (“Kat”), ridden by David Shefrin, slid from the Western States Trail July 24 during the horse and rider’s attempt to complete the 100-mile Tevis Cup ride.
Read the whole story in, where else, The Horse.com. I’m proud to know you, Jack!
