[RC] In the spirit of education ... our weekend with a treated horse (long) - Howard Bramhall
Patti:
Thank-you so much for sharing this. I know how hard it is to come out
and talk (write) about it. It's an experience you'll never forget, and, it
does teach you something.
The experience taught me one thing, above all others: Not all horses
were meant for this sport. It's something every rider/owner must
face. Endurance (50/100) is an extreme sport. We ask a lot. We
need to pay attention to them every step of the way. I think it's very
important to realize that it takes a special horse to do 50 miles in 12 hours or
less, and an incredibly special horse to complete 100 miles in 24
hours, or less.
The one paragraph you wrote, kind of brought it all home for me, and it's
so true:
"Not all treated horses are over-ridden, or ridden by novices (while we're
don't have decades of experience, we've done distance riding on five different
horses successfully --mostly-- for the last eight years), or running up front,
or refusing to eat and drink for miles, or being dragged along by their
riders."
Take nothing for granted at an endurance ride. Nothing.
cya,
Howard (sometimes the warnings are incredibly subtle)
Subject: [RC] [Guest] In the spirit of
education ... our weekend with a treated horse (long)
On Behalf of Patti Stedman
I thought I'd post to the
gang about having our horse treated at the Flesherton 50 this
weekend.
My husband and I were planning to take Finn, a 7 year old
we've been bringing along carefully for a year, and Ned, my guy with a few
hundred miles, to a steady eddie middle-of-the-pack completion of the
Flesherton 50. This was to be Finn's first 50. He's a
rangy type, we have called him Thin Finn as we've worked hard to put
weight on him.
