I think the
negative “personal” bantering about all “horse saving”
ideas on ridecamp, is hurting the process.Keeping horses safe, is the most important issue, but somebody is going
to have demonstrate that any of these ideas would have saved ONE horse.Of the four horse deaths that I am very familiar
with over the last two years, none of these rules proposals would have helped.
I am pretty
sure that if we slowed the freeways down to 20 mph, we would reduce freeway
deaths by 99%. But then they would
not be freeways.If we make
everybody walk around the course, we would have the same result, but it would not
be endurance.Let’s be
careful that we do not put in bunch of rules that “would not” have
saved a horse, just to make yourselves feel like we are doing something and
maybe ruin what many of us like about endurance.
