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...take a 17 hand hot horse around even a STADIUM course--let alone a two-mile gallop over a cross country track--over 5' to 6' fences--timing your strides so you leave properly, and land properly set up for your next carefully paced 3 strides and take-off....THEN tell me the rider isn't an athlete, too...or for that matter--run the canyons at Tevis in 100+ degrees, (as did Becky Fiedler a couple of years ago)--and tell me the rider isn't an athlete, too.... :o)

Not to diminish in ANY way the effort put forth by our horses, but to do this or any other equine sport at a world-class level demands equally from both team members--you and your horse...

 CMNewell <reshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >One more issue I have with endurance as an Olympic
> >sport is that the Olympics are for HUMANS and
> >endurance is NOT a human sport. None of the equine
> >sports are human sports. We do not test the human's
> >athletic abiliies; we test the equine's abilities.
> >So, why are ANY equine sports in the Olympics?
>
> Not that I care if endurance ever gets into the Olympics, but there were 
> equestrian events in the ancient Greek games, so I certainly think they 
> have more place there than synchronized swimming or that damned ribbon 
> twirling nonsense.
> --CMNewell
>
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Mel Sherman

Wild Heart Horses

Goldendale, Washington

www.wildhearthorses.com

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