RE: Re: Re: Safe starts at races...

["Thomas, Barb" <thomas@amgen.com>]

AMEN to that!!!  This weekend, I did the Fire Mt. 30 on Wind Dancer and held
back in camp for 15 minutes.  I went out Lynn Maguire and her first-time 5
year old Double R gelding.  We had a fantastic ride, calm and well-paced and
did it in four hours, fifteen minutes.  It was a great experience for her
youngster and my mare who has recovered from an injury and completed her
first ride in over two years.  Both horses looked great and didn't get
head-casey at all.  What a great ride!
Barb


> In a message dated 1/22/00 7:52:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> riosanbravo@hotmail.com writes:
> 
> << Well, that is good news. I've been told that in LDs, if you linger back
> 
> too 
>  long, you're likely never to catch the front runners. Any comments? >>
> 
> Yeah, I've got some comments on that.  If you have a horse that is still 
> insecure at the start, you've got no business catching the "front runners"
> 
> anyway!  Time to be teaching the poor horse to handle the sport sanely, 
> instead of blowing his mind racing...  Rome wasn't built in a day, and
> horses 
> darn sure aren't, either!
> 
> Heidi
> 
> 
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