Race Fever is a malady that can affect the best of
riders at some times. The symptoms are a quickening pulse of the rider, a
hitch to the neck to see who is behind and the neck quickens as the pace and
distance enhances. Currently a loss of responsibility develops and all
sense of reality evolves into a first to finish or a BC or a Top
Ten into a greater enhancement of the actuality of what the horse is
capable of as the rider has euphoric feelings of grandeur far out weighing the
situation at hand, and at times the horse can crash because of a loss of rider
perspective. There are other symptoms i forget but they are no less real
and you can not dictate common sense, someone so eloquently said, and you can
not make rules to govern this malady. Howard, you would be a great Mentor.
Because you have heart and have made mistakes and so have i and so has the best
of us...all of us. ts
