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Amen to you both. It is not that we ride them 100 miles or 50 miles or even
25 miles it's we are out there at all riding them. Let me go with my boots
on!  Sometimes I think we loss what is important in all the mindless chatter.

Does my horse give a damn that he got a gold metal, or a gold goblet or a
gold star - hell no. 
Do I really give a damn if he or I got a gold metal or a gold start - a glass
goblet works just as well to drink beer as a gold goblet - hell no.

Do I care that I can go out, get on a good horse and go ride - hell yes.

Sometimes I think we forget why we have horses and why we were drawn to this
sport. It's not about the awards, it's not about the T-shirts, hell I have
so many I use them to change the oil in my tractor, it's not about the recognition
for doing 1000 miles or 1000 miles with one 100 or any the other nonsense
that has been thrown around. All of it is BS. It's about the bond between
man and horse. 

To paraphrase a quote Ronald Reagan stole from Winston Churchill, "There
is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of
a man."  I guess you could substitute woman for man in that quote:-). That's
why I ride a horse.

Why do the rest of you ride a horse?

Truman

DVeritas@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 7/24/2003 2:07:27 PM Mountain Daylight
> Time, jcmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>  
>  
> > OMG,
> > I ABSOLUTELY hate getting old.  And like you, I am sick of the whining. 
> > Get with it folks, ride, take good care of your horse, learn from your mistakes,
> > and above all, have fun.  Isn't that why we all got into this sport to begin
> > with?
>   
>  
>  Yes, absolutely, YES.
>      I hear you, Jeanie, and I feel the same.  
>      Right now, I can still ride hundreds, but if there ever comes a day
> that all I can do is go out, tack my horse and sit in the saddle in the cool
> shade under a big ol' cottonwood while my horse picks grass, well by God,
> that's what'll I do.
>      It not how many miles we ride, but how we ride 'em.
>      ---Frank