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[RC] Weight - rides2far@xxxxxxxxWhat I believe is (generally) lighter riders tax their horses less >>during a ride than heavier riders. The evidence is that if the horse is trained with a particular weight on its back, weight makes little or no difference. Of course it's pretty hard to accept that a horse carrying 250 has as good of a chance as one carrying 115, but when it comes to the difference between 165 and 180 I don't think it makes a hill of beans worth of difference so no, I do not think anybody's got to compromise to do well in their weight division. You have a lot more incentive to change your weight to avoid some extremely dominent rider/horse combination whether they weigh more than you or less. As to the argument to just remove weight divisions...that would be up to the board. Anybody know how many board members or nominees are heavyweights? Laura (could be), Mike Maul, Joe Schoech... I doubt they're big on the idea. >g< Angie ________________________________________________________________ Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand. Now includes pop-up blocker! Only $14.95/ month - visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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