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[RC] re: What if your horse hates to condition - Kristi SchaafCould be that this boy needs a different job perhaps? Not all horses enjoy endurance, some love it. Dawna From the large number of replies I've received from people with the same conditioning issue, if we all
found our horses different jobs, the numbers at AERC
rides would drop dramatically. : - ) My horse loves
CTRs and AERC; he just doesn't understand why he has
to do all those training miles on the same old trails
and roads. And truthfully, I'll take a horse like him
over one that loves to run so much that he'd try to
run away with me all the time. Kristi
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The very essence of our sport is doing the trail as quickly as practicable,
while keeping one's horse fit to continue. Taking the clock out of the
equation makes it another sport altogether. The challenge is how to keep
the sport what it is while honing our skills (both as riders and as those
in control roles) in detecting where "the edge" is for each horse so that
we don't cross it.
~ Heidi Smith
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