Re: RC: Re: Dance Line

["Tamara Jane Habberley" <tamarahabberley@lineone.net>]

Is she the current champ? Or is
> >she Old News?
>
She was the champion in 1998 - shes the sort who would happily bash you if
you called her old news! She has also won numeros 100 milers and her horse
has competed at this level since, I think, he was 12 - hes 19 now he was
champion at 18 and I thnk completed and won three 100 mile ERs that year and
is still going strong.
 Due to his riders injury last year he was used as the mount for a junior
who became that years EHPS Junior Champ on him winninga 80 mile race ride!

Also, the attitude of last years champ is old news is somewhat shortsighted
as experience does tend to help in most sports.
I dont know what its like in the states but over here in the UK many ofthe
big names in the sport have been there for years for example last years EHPS
nat Champ was Lesley Caswell on Archimedes the horse is  a mere youngter at
21! She won on the basis of acumulated points in Ers that season.

 >Well, that's a kind of "don't confuse me with facts" attitude.


So heres a thought , the' facts' as esposed in current ER books might
confuse some riders as you say , but these riders just go on, and on and on
at the top on the same animal for years.  Personally if its a choice between
following trends in books and following the experience of riders like these
I know which route Ill be taking!

Tamara
----- Original Message -----
From: David LeBlanc <dleblanc@mindspring.com>
To: <Tivers@aol.com>; <tamarahabberley@lineone.net>;
<fasterhorses@gilanet.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: RC: Re: Dance Line


> At 04:29 AM 3/24/00 EST, Tivers@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 3/24/00 1:15:59 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> >tamarahabberley@lineone.net writes:
>
> ><< FWIW I attended a seminar where one of the speakers was a lady called
> >Babara Elwell whos been UK Nat Champ, ScottisH Nat Champ, Irish Nat Champ
in
> >ERs etc . She said she never uses a heart rate monitor during rides, only
> for
> >vet checks as she belivedsthe rider should be able to feel how the horse
is
> >when its moving.
>
> >Well, that's a kind of "don't confuse me with facts" attitude. Experience
> and
> >"feel" is an advantage, but not everything. Is she the current champ? Or
is
> >she Old News?
>
> I think one ought to have both - use the instrumentation for what it is
> good for, but use your senses to know what's going on with the horse.
> Either one can tell you things the other one can't.
>
> FWIW, I don't always use the heart monitor - I just happened to have one
on
> that horse at that ride.  I need to figure out some better way to hold the
> bottom contact onto the horse I currently ride - she's shaped a bit round,
> and I can't make the girth overly tight or it galls her.  If the girth
> isn't really tight, the contact comes out...  Maybe the current girth
> (which has an elastic section) will do better.
>
> Another point would be that people with lots of experience at something
can
> often do things that us regular folk can't get away with - maybe we could
> be that way too, once we got to her level of experience, but until we get
> there...
>
>
> David LeBlanc
> dleblanc@mindspring.com
>
>