Re: RC: Barney/Valerie

[SandyDSA@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/25/01 8:36:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, lth@thegrid.net 
writes:


> , (which incidentally, is a horror to me,
> too) we occasionally have dead ones such as the poor little mare that
> lost her battle to live at the June NASTR ride.  Not one person who
> was there, has stepped forward to protest this atrocity.  That speaks
> volumes about some of our endurance brethren.  She was ridden to
> death.
>
> Yes sir, the sport of endurance should go over well with John Q
> Public.  Wonder if they will show the IV bagged horses on TV?


I guess that is right up there with the college and high school athletes 
dropping from heart problems these days - and plastered all over the news. No 
one is crying foul on that - and those are people:)

Perhaps the ones who ride horses into metabolic failure, grade 4 lameness and 
ultimately into a death sentence need to slapped into the 22nd century by 
other riders, RMs, and the like. A few recent events regarding horse abuse - 
and rider abuse - should - SHOULD point up the wide open opportunity to make 
humans more...human.
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