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Re: [RC] [RC] Limited Distance OOC? - Maggie Mieske

Deanna,
I guess I still fail to see the logic of how you fail your horse if you do
what's best for them, esp. if it's your call and you pull because "something
isn't right" (NOT taking into account the people that lose their head and
override their horse or simply don't "get it")...pulling or being pulled in
the best interests of your horse certainly isn't failing in my book.  I also
don't consider getting pulled at the end of a ride because my horse found a
root with his name on it 1/2 mile from the finish makes me a failure...in
that case, shit did happen.  When we do the best we can on any given day,
even if we come up short, we cannot be that hard on ourselves... yes, major
difference of opinion and there's room for it but this just doesn't ring
right to me.  Sorry.
Miles of smiles,
Maggie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deanna German" <finishis2win@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ridecamp"
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Limited Distance OOC?



No Maggie, I'm not jesting. I have my share of non-completions (failures)

to

look back on too. (Knocking furiously on wood, only one OT failure with

this

horse.) In each case I either failed to bring a horse capable of the task

at

hand or I failed in my horsemanship. I don't know how much more cut and

dry

it gets than that. I don't really believe too much in "sh** happens". And

I

don't believe a person must experience pulls in order to learn.

If my horse comes up lame or metabolically compromised, I will truly

believe

that I have failed her.

Lots of room for differences of opinions and different goals in distance
riding sports.

Deanna


on 7/22/03 10:24 PM, Maggie Mieske at mmieske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


<Any non-completion is a failure>
Deanna,
Surely you jest!!!  IF we learn from our pulls, then it certainly is NOT

a

failure.  Sometimes "shit happens".   I started myself and later Malik

out

on 25 LD and comp rides...I must have learned something somewhere.
Miles of smiles,
Maggie





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