Re: RC: This Sport as a Sport

[DVeritas@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/6/00 11:07:28 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
katswig@earthlink.net writes:

<< Playing well in endurance includes preparing you and your horse 
 properly for the demands you make, not asking more of your horse and 
 yourself than what you and it are capable, treating the other 
 participants with respect, and not cheating.  You can do these things 
 and cross the finish line first, last, or not at all.  And if you 
 enjoyed yourself in the process, you succeeded at your sport.
  >>

  Kat,
     The first line of this paragraph certainly states the crux of the 
matter, IMO, "preparing you and your horse properly for the demands...".
     How we accomplish that seems to be the "running dialogue" of this 
particular cyber-forum.
      In this forum, one can glean (for the most part) just about whatever 
one wants as to how to prepare and compete....from "playing" to "win" to 
"playing" to "play".  
      One would think that (ultimately) the benefit is to the horse.
      Just returned from the Fall XP....the only XP I hadn't done.  What 
beautiful trails.
      I can see why parts of my home state (Nebraska) are so bland....seems 
God got carried away with using all those colors in Southern Utah and we got 
the leftovers.

       Frank.