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Re: [RC] [RC] rider education/public image - Nancy Mitts

Yep, they're the ride manager's nightmare. These are the people who no amount of handouts, ride meetings, clinics, etc will reach. They come in determined to "kick butt" and show them Ayrabs a thing or two. And, I'm not sure any proposals to "qualify" them will help, either. They start in the LD ride, but they're not doing it for the award, or points, only to "show them endurance riders up". I don't think they'd even care about being DQ'd if they went too fast, they'd still have braggin rights among their buddies. Fortunately I've never had more than one at a time show up at my rides. A benefit of having late fall/winter rides!
The flip side is that MOST of the riders who have this impression of endurance want NOTHING to do with it. They're the ones who are afraid to let us have rides on "their trails", etc. These are the ones our educational outreach stands to help the most.
But, what can we expect if someone who has never been to a ride reads ridecamp discussions on what to do with the horsekillers, how SO MANY horses are dying, how you can't stop to let your horse graze along trail without being run over, etc.
Nancy Mitts

From: RENESPONY@xxxxxx
i was talking to a girl who WORKS AT THE LOCAL TACK SHOP. about
trail/endurance rides easyboots,electolyte that they stock etc. she mentioned was planning
on trying a ride next year.
she said "endurance? aint that where you go real fast and gallop a lot? my
horse could kick butt, she's real fast"


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