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It's time for your morning wake up call. Good morning, it is
five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up call for Friday,
July fifth. I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King. I want to say
quick good morning to and good morning and to Robin who is here today in
for KNO. You are in for a treat today. We've got a lot
of stories to cover, a lot of post fourth of July stories, so
let's just get started. Here's what's a head on wake up call. President
Biden says he needs more rest. We'll tell you what he told a group
of governors at a special meeting about how he plans to get more sleep.
Hurricane Burrow Barrel continues to pommel parts of the Caribbean. We'll bring you the
latest on the aftermath and where it's headed next. And it's Barbecue Sees in
in case you haven't noticed yet, and Dean Sharp will join us live with
some fun ideas about how you can liven up your next family barbecue. Then
at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Britain has a new
prime Minister and we'll talk about that landslide election that ended fourteen years of Conservative
rule in the UK. Well, let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been killed
in a crash along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. Two cars collided last night
near Carbon Canyon. One of the drivers died at the scene. Three people
are recovering from injuries caused by an explosion at a fireworks show in La Puente.
One of them is a pyrotechnic technician who was seriously hurt Wednesday night.
The city says the injuries were caused by misfire of the fireworks. The La
City Fire Department has been given the okay to add new positions. The specialized
wildland hand Crew roles are expected to help contain wildfire. City Council wman Monica
Rodriguest says it's vital to help protect the many La residents threatened by fires.
There's over a quarter of a million homes that would be affected by these wildfires.
The city council approved more than a million dollars to fund the new positions,
and the LA Fire Department says it's ready to start hiring. The crews
helped construct fire lines with hand tools and rehab land that's been burned in downtown
La. Michael Monks KFI News. Several people have been heard in what police
in Huntington Beach say was an assault with a deadly weapon. The attackers reported
about eleven fifteen last night. Please say they found people with significant injuries,
but they didn't say how many people were hurt and didn't give any more details
on how the injuries happened. A senior meals program in LA created during the
pandemic could expire in August. City Councilman Bob Blumenfeld rejected the idea this week
that twelve million dollars more is needed to fund it longer. When we put
it in place, that was language that said this is for one year.
This is using the COVID money for one year. City council voted this week
to send the program to the Budget Community for Committee for a review of its
efficacy. LA has designated millions of dollars to support other senior meal programs.
In the meantime, the Mountain Lion has been killed on the four h five
Freeway near the Getting Museum. The CHP says the animal was hit by a
car yesterday. California Wildlife officials are looking into what happened. Mountain Lion did
not appear to have been tagged. Firefighters in northern California battling wildfires and a
potentially historic heat wave. Captain Robert Foxworthy of CalFire spoke and he says there
is a greater challenge with triple digit temperatures. Obviously, having those high temperatures
are tough on the body, and it just kind of changes our strategy a
little bit on how we operate large fire in Butte County. Force only thirty
thousand people to evacuate this week. Officials have now allowed them to return home.
Let's take a look at your drive this morning, this post fourth of
July morning. We've got a crash in Rolling Heights on the sixty. That's
right, that's on the sixty eastbound at Fairway Drive. That crash has a
vehicle and debris in lanes. Looks like that's over on the right hand side,
So try to stay to the left as you approach in s Ritos on
the six of five southbound connector to the eastbound ninety one, that entire transition
road has been shut down due to a crash. Looks like the ramp from
the ninety one east and the six o five south is also closed. And
in Anaheim on the ninety one eastbound at State College Drive State College Boulevard,
there's a crash block and the three right lanes. Traffic is stop and go
from East Street with Southern California's only airborne traffic reports. I'm Russell Ford.
All right, thank you, Russell. At a special me on Wednesday,
President Biden told a group of governors he needs more rest, but is otherwise
in good health. ABC's Molly Nagel joins us live from the White House with
more on what he said. Good morning, Molly, Hey, good morning.
Yeah. This meeting at the White House is really intended to reassure state
Democratic leaders that the president is in good health and up to the task of
not only leading the country and leaving the party but taking on Donald Trump in
November. Now we're hearing more about what was said. Behind the scenes.
We saw governors come out immediately after that meeting and pledge their support They said
that the President's been there for them, they're going to be there for him,
and he's staying in this race. But behind the scenes, we're hearing
that the president told the governors that he needs to get more rest and in
order to get more sleep, he wants to stop scheduling events later into the
evening. Now, this is according to a person who is in the room
and two sources briefed on the discussion. He also made a joke about his
brain of when he was asked a question about by Hawaii Governor Josh Green about
his health. He said that he was fine, but it was quote,
just his brain. Now, the people that we talked to who are in
the room said that that was a joke, and his campaigns noted that his
campaign chair, who was also in the room, noted that he followed it
up by saying, all kidding aside. So they're pushing that off as a
joke. But we also know the president did acknowledge he had a medical checkup
following the debate with his doctor and is in good health. Now that's notable
because the Press secretary had initially told us he hadn't had any medical exams following
that debate, but now they are saying that he was seen by his doctor
to check on that cold that he had during the debate stage and is doing
just fine. So you can argue about what the difference is between a medical
exam and checking on a cold, but the bottom line here is that the
president is going to is taking some pretty extreme measures to try and reassure his
party that he's still up to the task and that he can stay in this
race. He has said he is adamant he's staying in We heard him say
that last night here at the White House during a Fourth of July celebration.
A member of the audience to them to keep up the fight, and he
said, I'm with you, man, I'm not going anywhere. So I
think we're going to continue to see how the president's work behind the scenes and
in front of the American people is going into in terms of assessing addressing some
of the concerns that they that have popped up since this debate. Now,
at least publicly, there's only been a few people, a few leaders and
the Democratic Party who have come out and said that they are not supporting Biden
to continue in this race. But publicly, most of them, are still,
you know, presenting this united front here. Do you think that they're
that's starting to weaken? Are the Democratic leaders starting to say, you know
what, maybe we need to reassess this, or at least maybe is not
only happening privately. Well, you're right that we are only hearing so far,
I believe, from three House Democratic members calling for the president to step
aside. Now that's not to say that that in and out itself is not
notable that you're hearing members of the president's own party calling for him to step
aside. But really, as you noted, the party is staying united and
staying as a unit and a united front on this. Now we're hearing reports
that there are calls happening behind the scenes saying that there are some concerns from
members who are worried about if the president can win or you know, if
there's just if this would cause turmoil in the party and could affect down ballot
races. I think what we're going to have to see is how long does
this persist. Does the President's efforts by getting out on the campaign trail today,
going to Wisconsin, by sitting down with ABC's George Stephanopolis for that interview
today that I think a lot of people are going to be watching. How
do those things and you know, continuing to travel and do more to get
in front of the American people, how do those things kind of address the
concerns that have persisted? And is it enough? And or you know,
are we too far down the road now? I know a lot of people
have been calling for not just a checkup, if you will, a health
exam, but they're calling for a cognitive test for President Biden. Do you
think we're going to get any more information on that checkup or that medical exam
that he had this week? Well, we know that the Press Secretary is
going to be gaggling with the reporters of board Air Force one today and I
have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to be part of those discussions about
the discrepancy here between you know, what she was telling us and what the
President is telling governors. I think that bottom line, the questions are not
going away. He's going to continue to face questions you know, himself and
from the Press secretary or you know, his press secretary will continue to raise
these questions. So far, the White House has stood firm. You know
they they have. They say they've been transparent about the President's health. They
put out these summaries of these physicals that he's taken. But I don't think
these questions are going anywhere, So we'll have to see how much they're willing
to answer. One more follow up to you mentioned the ABC interview tonight.
How essential is it that he I guess does well or presents this strength and
capability that he's striving for in this interview tonight. Well, I think the
White House knows that the stakes really could not be higher here. Everything in
this interview is going to be intensely scrutinized, But ultimately what really matters here
is what the voters think. Does this calm their concerns? Does this reinforce
any perceptions they might have following that debate. I think that the White House
knows that they have to get out there and do this interview. We've heard
allies of the President calling for him to do these types of things, get
in front of viewers, get in front of voters, and show them that
he is up to the task. But I think that the campaign has to
back up their argument here that the debate was just one bad night, But
viewers will have to make that judgment for themselves when they see the interview.
It's gonna bringas you the first look of it on World News tonight, and
then the interview will be broadcast in its entirety and primetime at eight pm on
ABC, So we'll have to stay tuned to see how it goes well.
We will definitely be watching. Thank you so much, Molly, Thank you.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Patrick Bertaletti of
Chicago as one of his first men's title of the annual Nathan's hot Dog eating
contests. He won by consuming fifty eight hot dogs in ten minutes. The
parent company of Zacksmith Avenue has signed a deal to buy Upscale rival Neeman Marcus,
which owns Neman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, and they bought it for two
point six five billion dollars. Temperatures will heat up today across southern California,
with some record setting highs possible in the valleys. Then at six oh five
it's handle on the news. Hesbela launched a rocket and drone attack on Israel
last night and what they say was a retaliation strike. We'll talk about why
they said they did it and what the Iran backed group says they'll do next.
Mexico's top tourist destinations were on red alert as hurricane Barrel turned towards the
coast on Thursday evening, after leaving behind a deadly trail of destruction across several
Caribbean islands. ABC's Jim Ryan joins US Live from Dallas with the latest.
Good Morning, Jim, boarding Heather. At the moment, Hurricane Beryl is
a Category two hurricane over the Yucatan Peninsula, causing problems for people in Coosamel
and Cancoon east of O'Haras those sorts of those Maya Riviera places that people like
to vacation, and it's going to weaken down to tropical storm status most likely
as it scrapes across the land loses some momentum, it'll go off out into
the Gulf of Mexico then early tomorrow morning and make its way to the northwest,
and as it does so, that very warm water on the Gulf of
Mexico is likely to send it back up into hurricane status again, which would
be winds minimum wins of seventy four miles per hour, and then finally a
third landstulfs landfall first Grenada, then Yucatan Peninsula, and then finally Northeast Mexico
or southeast Texas early Monday morning. Heather, Now, there are a lot
of resorts in this area, and this is high tourist season, so there's
probably a lot more people in these areas than there normally would be at any
other times of the year. So do we know what any of these resorts
are doing to prepare, if anything, for this hurricane. Well, they've
seen the storm coming, and certainly those places in the Yucatan know what to
do when a storm like this is on the way, and they've boarded up
I'm sure, and told guests probably to stay in their rooms and wait till
the storm is over. Most of them do have generators to hire end hotels
and resorts have ways to keep the lights turned on at least and keep food
service going, so they'll kind of ride this thing out until tomorrow, early
tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon when the storm has finally blown away. Let's still
have rain for the next couple of days and win. But yeah, this
is one that they saw coming and have been able to prepare for, and
you could tend Can we talk about a little bit more about some of the
damage that was done in the Caribbean when it went over yesterday and then earlier
in the week. Yeah, Granada and those other tiny islands out there that
people probably have not heard much about it, and the Bahamas as well.
We're talking about extreme wind damage to properties there. Plus the flooding that comes
with any hurricane now is causing a lot of damage and will for some time
in those islands out there in the Caribbean. So yeah, just some really
terrifying and heartbreaking images coming from those places. Now. I know that there's
probably people here in the US who are watching this closely because maybe they have
vacation plans, maybe they were planning to head to this area. Anything that
we can tell them about, you know, whether or not to cancel,
just keep an eye on it. Well. I think that even if it's
a landfall down in Mexico. Northeast Mexico. We saw this earlier this year
with the first named storm of the year, Alberto. It came ashore down
in Tampico, Mexico. But of course up here in Texas, then we're
sort of on the dirty side of the storm. Right. These things spin
counterclockwise, and so if you're on the north side, you're going to get
a much deeper effect than you would be on the south side of a hurricane
like that. And so even if the barrel comes ashore as a tropical storm
or a low level hurricane, it's going to cause some problems for people from
the southern tip of Texas at Brownsville all the way up potentially to Calveston,
you know, three hundred miles away. That was my next question, What
should I mean, Is there even a chance it will hit Texas? Oh?
Yeah, there's every likelihood, I think, maybe the probability that it
will, either in its landfall and certainly with its impact, because again,
I mean, we're talking about anything from two hundred miles north to two hundred
miles south of the point of landfall is going to be feeling the effects of
this. So you've got people boarding up their houses in Brownsville, You've got
the beaches out there preparing for the arrival of this storm, and the farmers
down there. This is a major Inland. They are just not too far
from Corpus Christie. You have vast fields of sorghum, of cotton, of
corn, and now farmers are out there rushing today to get this stuff harvested
before the rains come along in a ruin it all. All right, Well,
we will be keeping a close eye on this and hope everyone down there
is safe. Thank you so much, Jim, Thanks Heather. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Illegal fireworks have caused an explosion of nine to one one
calls across southern California in recent years. People don't realize policing illegal fireworks is
tricky. It is often difficult to cite people for those types of illegal fireworks
because in order to cite our officers have to actually catch the person in the
act of lighting that firework. Huntington Beach Is Jennifer Carrey says there were seven
hundred fireworks related nine to one to one calls during the July fourth weekend last
year, which is two hundred and fifty more than in twenty twenty two.
Carrie says, reporting illegal fireworks on the MYHB app freeze up nine one one
for life threatening emergencies in Huntington Beach Corbin Carson kf I News A wildfire that's
burned at least forty acres in Moreno Valley has led to some evacuations. The
fire was reported around seven o'clock last night near Moreno Beach Drive. The Riverside
County Fire Department says it was burning in an area that was difficult to get
to, but by around midnight, the fire was roughly sixty percent surrounded by
lines of clear vegetation. A few dozen pro Palestinian protesters walked onto the one
oh one freeway in downtown La. CHP officials say the group started with a
march at Gloria Molino Grand Park last night, before later a move moving into
the Grand Central Market and then the freeway. Some could be heard chanting Intifada,
don't think I'm saying that right, while one demonstrator appeared to burn an
American flag. A COVID era senior's meal program in LA could expire at the
end of August. The Rapid Response Senior Meals program was only supposed to last
a year and was funded through federal pandemic dollars. City councilwoman Heather Hutt asked
her colleagues this week to spend twelve million dollars more to keep it going.
Today we need to put our money where our rhetoric is and not exacerbate our
un house issues, particularly around our seniors. The council instead voted to send
the issue to committee so the program can be reviewed for efficacy. The city
has millions more dollars dedicated to other senior meals programs in downtown la Michael Monks,
KFI News labor leader and former public prosecutor Keir Starmer is Britain's next prime
minister. The UK's official exit polls showing the governing Conservative Party, led by
Rishi Sunactivity in a landslide, ending fourteen years of power. ABC's James Longman
says Starmer ran on a campaign of change, which is a potent message with
Britain in the throes of a major cost of living crisis and public services decline.
Before the vote yesterday, Starmer called the country to show up. Coming
up. It's barbecue season and that means getting your grill and outdoor patio ready
for summer. And we'll talk to Dean Sharp about some ways you can do
that. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The northern
California city of Oraville's annual fireworks were canceled as an estimated twenty six thousand residents
remained displaced by the growing Thompson Fire, and President Biden says he's not going
anywhere when it comes to the November election. He told a group of governors
that he just needs more rest. And Hurricane Beryl is now back to a
Category two storm. The National Hurricane kne Center says the Caribbean storm has winds
of up to one hundred and fifteen miles per hour as it heads towards Mexico's
Yucatan Peninsula, and then at six's oh five it's handle. On the news,
the parent company of Sacks Fifth Avenue has signed a deal to buy Upscale
rival Nieman Marcus, which owns Neman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores. They're going
to do that for about two point six billion dollars. Then at five point
fifty we're just a few weeks away from the start of the twenty twenty four
Olympics in Paris, and we're taking a closer look at some unique Olympic contenders.
But let's let's uh, oh, we have Dean here. Oh my
goodness, I just got so excited. If you're feeling inspired to get outside
and cook, we have some ideas that you can use to make your summer
barbecue even better. Dean Sharp, the house whisper is here live with more.
Good morning, Dean, morning boss. How you doing. I'm so
good. What a pleasure to talk with you today. How is your fourth
It was uneventfully lovely, truly truly, just nice, nice, And then
we made you get up early this morning to come talk to me. Well,
I'm always up early anyway, It's no problem. I love that.
Okay, So let's talk about barbecue season. Tell me how I can make
my cooking experience this summer even better. Well, you know, July is
a peak barbecue season, and it's usually the fourth that actually inspires a lot
of people. A lot of people assume that most outdoor kitchen stuff gets purchased
before the fourth because of grilling. But the reality is that you know,
you end up at somebody's place or at family's house, or you yourself,
you pull out the old grill, and after the fourth it's kind of officially
barbecue time, and people are thinking, we got to do better than this.
I just want we want a new grill, we want to do this,
we want to maybe an outdoor kitchen, and so this is when people
really start thinking about doing outdoor kitchen. So that's what we're going to do
this weekend is spend both days Tomorrow and Sunday show talking about how to put
together the right outdoor kitchen for you at any level, any level literally,
whether you've just got you know, one hundred bucks in your pocket or ten
thousand or whatever, however far you want to go. But I always say
this, I always say this, The key is the best investment that you
can make in building an outdoor kitchen is learning to cook. And I'm serious
about that because there are so many options these days as to what you can
do outside. We've come so far from the nineteen fifties when all of American
grilling began. Really, we've come so far from just you know, a
little charcoal grill to the fact that now you've got griddles, you've got smokers,
you've got camado grills like the big Green egg out there, You've got
all sorts of specialty equipment. In fact, the day before yesterday, Tina
and I had a couple of friends over and we decided, you know what,
we're gonna do pizza outdoors in the afternoon. And so outdoor pizza ovens
are huge these days, portable outdoor pizza ovens. But it all comes down
to this one question. What do you want to be cooking outside? The
food that you want to be cooking, and then you go out and you
put together the equipment necessary to get that done. So learning to cook the
food that you love the most outdoors is the key to outlining your outdoor kitchen.
So July is peak barbecue season, as you mentioned, and it's also
National Grilling Month. Now, we love our girl. We have a trigger
and my husband uses it pretty much year round. That's one of the lucky
things we get to do here in southern California. What else should we be
adding to our cooking repertoire You mentioned like a pizza oven, but are there
some other little fun things that we can use outside? Well, I see,
now that's an intro thing thing. You say you and your husband have
a trager grill, and grill is one of those words that gets thrown around.
We have a appellate grill as well. And your grill quote unquote grill
really is best described as a smoke a smoke, yeah, as a barbecue
smoker, because yeah, yeah, you can reach hot temperatures, but you're
never ever with that grill grilling over direct flame, right, It's just heat
and smoke and so so it is one of the I think just the hottest
and greatest specialty items, the return to low and slow, you know,
old school barbecue. But like we said, pizza ovens, big griddles in
this year, this year, griddles, outdoor griddles have become a huge thing.
I love ours. We've got a litstone, a flat topp or is
that the one with Yeah, yeah, no, just a flat top,
you know, just a big thirty six inch square flat top cast iron griddle.
And especially like if you if you have a family that loves the weekend
breakfasts cooked outside, the thing about a griddle, yeah, I mean I
love it especially, you know, and I would say during the summer,
we might hit that up more often even than the smoker. Just because you
know, it gets hot in the middle of the day. So the idea
of like everybody's over on a Saturday morning and I got room on that thing
for you know, eight hundred pancakes and sixty eggs and they're all you know,
I mean, I'm exaggerating, but the nice idea of a thirty six
inch wide griddle is that you can have pancakes and eggs and bacon and it's
all going at the same time. Everybody's hanging out and it's a great time.
So yeah, just about anything you can imagine these days cooking outdoors you
can find and I don't want to blow everybody's budget. And that's again why
I keep saying, find out what you want to do outside and just get
that. Try not to duplicate things as well. Surprisingly enough, Tina and
I do not have a classic grill like a Weber kettle grill, because we've
got the smoker, we've got the griddle. And not a lot of people
realize this, but the broiler on your oven inside is an upside down grill.
It's an upside down bar. I forget about that. So again,
if you're looking to save money, don't duplicate equipment that you already have.
All right, so here's my last question. I know you got to go,
But we have a very basic setup in our house with just very limited
space sort of in like a corner. Our trigger is like in a corner
of our driveway. Essentially, what are some like small little things we can
do to make it feel a little more inviting out there, a little more
like you're saying, like welcoming for people to want to hang out and sort
of like, you know, mix it up a little bit out there.
Well, you know, I always say, if the if the process of
cooking is about to people gathering around, then let them gather bring out a
cooler. One of the things that's happened in the last couple of years is
we've come out with some really really high tech coolers, strangely enough, battery
power. You know howeverything these days is battery powered. A battery powered cooler
that allows people to sit around, have cool beverages, use it as kind
of a coffee table, break out, some chairs, you know, some
folding chairs, some camp chairs, and get a couple of inexpensive market umbrellas.
Right, and I'm talking like the thirty nine dollars seven and a half
foot wide umbrellas that you can set up to shade the grill and the people
sitting around. And you know what, whether it's a temporary just for the
event kind of thing or a permanent setup set up a ring of people around
the food, and nobody ever gets that. Oh I love that well,
Dean, you always have such great advice. And you know what, You're
stuck with me tomorrow too, so we're gonna I'm gonna get to get even
more information from you tomorrow when I can't wait when you're back on Home.
You guys, make sure you listen to Home with Dean Sharp on Saturdays and
Sundays, and Dean, we'll talk with you more on tomorrow. Sounds great.
See you. Then you're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
AM six forty. And here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Authorities are still investigating the crash of a boat that sank in Alamitos
Bay in Long Beach. One man was killed and ten others were hurt.
A manhunt is still underway for an arm suspect or an armed person after two
LPD officers were hurt in a shootout in the Willowbrook area. The officers exchange
gunfire with the person driving Wednesday night during a traffic stop in the area of
Broadway in one hundred and thirty fifth. Another mountain lion has been hitting killed
on the Los Angeles Freeway. The animal was reported in the center divider of
the four or five near the Getty Center on Thursday afternoon and was picked up
later by Caltran's worker two minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
a former k COW news anchor has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the CBS
owned station. He says he was fired for being white, and we'll have
the details of the lawsuit for the ABC News Radio special press Play. This
year, ABC's Rob Howley profiled a unique Olympic sport that also happens to carry
with it a lot of risk, and he filed this special report for KFI.
It is one of the most dangerous sports you can possibly imagine. I
broke my neck for the first time when I was sixteen, I'll be honest.
As Spencer Stromy was going on, I could feel my eyes getting wide
and I was paralyzing the neck down. You come through it, you move
on. I've broken it twice since I nearly had my left leg amputase it.
I mean it is a dangerous sport, earning all those scars in the
only Olympic sport where men and women are competing on equal footing. Welcome to
the world of horseback riding, in this case eventing, or as Spencer himself,
a world class rider puts it, we talk about the equine equivalent of
a triathlon. So the dressage is the ballet. It is the ballet in
a sandbox, the dancing horses of the equestrian world sometimes written to music.
That's just the first phase. On day two, cross country is going and
doing a tough mutter course, galloping for miles over hills and in valleys,
jumping over fences big and small, into and out of water. Hi,
my name's Carolyn Permuchu and I am a twenty twenty four event three day eventing
Olympians, so she well knows exactly what's coming. On Day three, show
jumping is going back in a way. It's kind of tough mutter in a
ballerina combined in one right. Because both rider and horse need the fitness to
recover from cross country to still be able to navigate a round of jumps in
a rent. The horses have to be able to do all of those three
things, the dresserge, the cross country and the show jumping be able to
do them all very very well. And to have an all round horse that
can do those things is very rare to find. So I trust the horse
with my life, and I know he trusts me with his life. A
huge part of the challenge for the rider. The horse isn't just a machine.
This is the only sport in the world that we work with two brains,
two separate brains. With the equine and human relationship Caroline has forged with
her partner in this year's Games hsh Blake, through years of work. I've
had him for four years and I spent every single day with his horse,
every single minute, and it almost didn't happen. Actually, Blake was supposed
to be sold two separate times, but the deal, luckily for me,
fell through. And by the second time that the deal fell through, I
was like, this horse is so special. It's meant to be. I
feels like Yes. I remember riding him and sobbing and being like I'm going
to lose this horse, and he feels like a horse of a lifetime.
But she was able to work out a deal, managed to keep him for
herself, and now she and Blake are carrying us special banner into the Olympics.
Sixty years since American rider Lenda DuPont broke the gender barrier becoming the first
woman to ride in eventing in the Olympics. That's such a special thing about
our sport, right Like, we're the only sport that men and women could
be equally, and so I just want to keep carrying that tradition. And
someone who knows exactly what it was like back in nineteen sixty four, a
childhood friend of Landa, she got me interested in the eventing and we were
invited to go to Gladstone to train with the team that they were all boys,
man don in Sharp, who would make her own Olympic team in nineteen
sixty eight riding Trissage. But back in sixty four, even though the way
had been opened for women to ride in eventing, we knew we weren't gonna
make the Olympic team. I mean, making the Olympic team lose a big
deal that we weren't really even thinking about. But a funny thing happened on
the way to not making the team. Through all that training and testing before
the games. She was that good, good, had that good a horse,
a horse that Lanta's mother had given her. He was a big bone,
big bowld, brassy, thoroughbread. Off the racetrack, when it became
clear that Landa was going to ride into history, the man on the team
was so so awesome that they they really didn't care that we were females.
We were part of the part of the gang. And I think Landa was
very much accepted because she was a great rider and heading off to Tokyo and
into the history books. Today, inventing still looks much like it did then,
though with farmer women taking part. If you get a chance to watch
this year's games, keep an eye out for Caroline and both she and Spencer
saying, there's a great way to know if things are going well for any
of the riders. What you're looking for, more more than anything, basically
is the harmony between horse and ride e harmony the best word to be harmony
between the horse the rider and like my husband completely non horsey and he's picked
up some few tricks now, but the biggest thing It's always interesting to hear
him talk about it, the harmony between the horses and that you know,
you can see if it's smooth. He likes to use the word smooth,
and that's a super easy thing. If it looks effortless, that's a good
round. And know when you're watching those rides, these creatures, these animals,
these equines, my goodness, mate, they give us everything. Rob
Holly, ABC News Now. That report again is from ABC's Rob Holly.
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