RE: LD Miles

[Don Pollock <donp@dcr.net>]

I'm a little behind on my ridecamps but I think I need to comment on some
things.

In my posting on age VS riding skills I never took any SHOTS at anybody.  I just
tried to be objective and aired my opinion several times.  I think it is time to
define the minimum age for a junior rider for any distance, period. That's All I
saying about that. I will forever feel any other way about that.

AS far as LD miles.  Some people have awful good horses at their barn if they
can take any of them right out of the pasture unconditioned and ride them 25 to
30 miles
at a pace.  I could not do that with mine.  That is why I am going out on
conditioning rides now and through the winter.  I said in a previous post a
horse conditioned to do 25 to 30 miles work just as hard physically as a horse
conditioned to do a 50 or 100 works to do those.  I draw the analogy from
jumping.
There, a horse conditioned to do a coarse 2.5 ft jumps works just a hard to do
those as a horse that does 4 ft jumps is conditioned to do those.  The scoring
is the same for each. Just the times on this course is different.  I for a long
time was a start timer and fence judge for the Hey Penny in Kentucky and still
am an avid three day event watcher especially when Rolex rolls around.  I have
been around endurance on the ground for most part until next year (2001) when
I'll take my then 5 year old gelding to his first CTR of 30 miles and later a 25
mile LD.  I cannot understand why in endurance 25 miles is not endurance.  I
most certainly IS in my book and for my horse until he and I are accustomed and
conditioned beyond those miles THEN I'll start thinking about 50's.  Until then
though I would like my 25 miles I will do to count the same as my 50 that I may
do later.  Just to get the career miles I don't need to be goaded into doing
50's.
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