Re: RE: Horse Illustrated article

["baskhana" <baskhana@email.msn.com>]

I have decided to sell my 12 mare who WANTS to be ahead of all the other
horses and I don't want to go that fast.  Also am having to reduce my horse
numbers due to the current national emergency and the fact that I am in Army
Reserves.  Mary Ann, TX
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Rittenhouse <roger@vmaxept.com>
To: <Merryben@aol.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: RC: RE: Horse Illustrated article


> Hello Merryben,
>   FINALLY- someone else on the BOD who tells it like I have been
>   saying ..
>   ITS A RACE FOLKS ..
>
>   I WOULD RACE IF I had a FAST racing horse .. thus I only ride .. as
>   fast as it is safe to let my horse go..
>
>   Call it a RIDE if you want   ..
>   But I WILL RACE you for 20th place .. horse willing.
>
>   Unless we change the rules  - it will be RACING - I have seen MUCH
>   of that at the major events.
>   If 'YOU'  want to just ride - as I do many times .. then thats OK
>   too .. but the sport at the top and at the level Pamela sees all the
>   time is RACING. That is what she wrote about.
>
>   The PanAm was a RACE. I watched it all day .. A Spectator sport as a
>   pit crew. They RACED into and out of the Vet Checks.
>
>   Until we get rid of FIRST PLACE  it is still a RACE .. I help to
>   support the FIRST to FINISH by coming in later  - much later --
>
>   Roger R
>
>
> Saturday, September 15, 2001, 11:48:30 AM, you wrote:
>
> Mac> In a message dated 9/14/2001 10:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Mac> DESERTRYDR1@aol.com writes:
>
>
> >> .  Some of it wasn't too bad, but the constant
> >> referral  to Endurance RACING about drove me nuts!   Why don't some of
you
> >> who really know our sport get to write these stories?
>
>
> Mac> I know Pamela and I know about the sport with 8,000 miles, only 80 of
them
> Mac> LD, and I usually call it racing.  No matter what we say, it is a
race.  We
> Mac> reward first place and the fastest ten.  mb
> >>
> >>
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> --
>  Roger                            mailto:roger@vmaxept.com
>
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