Re: RC: slowing down the hot foots

[Lynne Glazer <lynne@glazer.org>]

>Chelle Sherman chellesherman@turbont.net
>Hi - I've certainly watched this discussion go 'round and 'round on the
>subject of LD and racing. I think that the solution may be simple. Do not
>time or place the LD division and set the pulse criteria at 50. This will
>quickly eliminate those who want to go fast on unconditioned horses, and
>slow everybody else down to approximately 7 mph (depending on terrain),
>and if the horse can go fast and still pulse down to 50, its probably
>doing just fine, so power to them! To make this work, the LD'ers should be
>easily distinguishable to the pulse-takers (like they could have letters
>instead of numbers crayoned on them). Has anybody tried this?
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Chelle Sherman

In our region, generally the LDers are easy to spot--their numbers 
are either alpha or start with 1xx when the 50s all start with 5xx.

L.