Re: FEI

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

Hi, San,

 

I've addressed most of your post in my reply to Jim, but I'd like to add one thing:

> I said before, endurance is a sport of pretty much last resort for 
>     show ring escapees who got really sick of the politics, the procedures for 
>     their own sake, and the spit and shine expectations of all parties 
>     concerned.
> Is this the case for every person who does 
>     endurance?  The sport appeals to me not because I'm tired of the show 
>     ring (I love it!) but because it is a different kind of challenge.  
>     I've tried most other sports, and am dead keen to try endurance.  I 
>     won't stop doing the other sports, because I get a kick out of all of 
>     them.
> We want to see how far and how well and how safely we can ride 
>     our  horses in a given length of time - without collared shirts, 
>     without anyone telling us where to stand before we vet in, and without 
>     having TWO sets of rules to consider. If we wanted THAT, we would go to CTR 
>     some - but won't because we don't WANT that kind of petty scrutiny. 
>     
> That kind of "petty scrutiny" just 
>     doesn't bother me.  When I do endurance / LD / whatever, I'll learn 
>     whatever rules apply, just as I had to when I started every other 
>     game.  
> Because, much as I would deny it vehemently 
>     in public, there is a small, very private, competitive edge to my 
>     personality.  I don't go there to win (on Toc that would be pretty 
>     pointless >g<) but if, when I get there, I feel like I could win, 
>     because, today, Toc is in a good moon, the sun is at the right angle in the 
>     sky, and Jupiter is aligned with Mars, I don't want to have victory snatched 
>     from my grasp because I didn't bother to learn the rules.
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> Tracey
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