Ridecamp: [RC] Jerez outcome...

It may be money that buys good horses to win with
(or keep in the barn to prevent the competition
running them?), but after what Angie said about 
the french team selling all their good horses to 
UAE, how come they still finished five horse in 
the top 11?

Also, the UAE seem to have been favoured by the 
type of course in Jerez. Whether we like it or not, 
"international endurance competition" appears to be
going the way of long-distance flat-track races - 
which is what the UAE excels at.

Although it pains me to say it, there's nothing in 
the "rules" to say that endurance should be done 
over rough mountainous terrain, which favours 
strategy and canniness as much as athletic ability 
(you just feel like it *ought* to be? <g>). 

When Steph said

> ...very flat course- a lot of hard packed dirt road...
> ...there are rolling hills, but minor. The OC 
> decided yesterday to take out the one 'real' hill...

the likely outcome could be guessed before checking 
the results (although money doesn't buy you luck 
when you're riding at speed over wet clay/adobe -
and I bet they don't practise that much in the 
UAE <g>).

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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsie AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in Sierra Foothills, California
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