[RC] Lisa is right on. - Cheryl or Randy WinterLisa, I think your thoughts on this matter on right on. Bring the beginners up through a series of trials that have a sane progression of speed and distance that will allow the horse AND rider time to learn. They have this in place for other disciplines, that being, a set of building blocks. If nothing else, even if the rider does not have the common sense to be able to read situations well because of lack of experience, at least the horse will have a safety net for a while to be able to handle the stresses presented to them. Maybe just maybe when the team was allowed out into the main steam of the sport, then maybe the rider would recognize what fast is when they started doing that pace, because they have witness first hand what reasonable is from the start. At least give people something to gage off of for comparison. Just my thoughts. Cheryl =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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