Re: [RC] Kids, ponies and distance riding... Get a grip people - Truman Prevatt
The nightmare scenario - a very young rider along with a sponsor who
has a "energetic" horse. They go out what they think is last but are
not. They have behind them a couple riders that go out last because
they have no control of their horse - it happens all the time. The last
riders are pretty much riding runaways as they blow by out of control
at a race track gallop on a wide open dirt road the young jr. and
sponsor. The sponsor has all he/she can handle to stay in the saddle as
the young jr's horse joins the stampede since even if he/she is the
worlds best rider (for his/her age) he/she doesn't have the upper body
strength (even if he/she had the presence of mind) to snatch up a
runaway horse. Hell this happened to me this past weekend and it was
all I could do to keep my horse under control.
While the "runaway" from the back of the pack doesn't happen at all
rides it happens enough to be a serious threat to riders without
experience and yes strength to handle a very strong 1000 pound beast
that is being driven by herd instinct.
Let this type of thing happen with a serious injury or even death to a
very young rider and the AERC will see just what teeth the law has and
the indignation of the population as a whole - and rightly so.
Seems to be a big difference between riding a 'manmade' huge
toy vs riding a horse under supervision and training.
Apples vs organges?
Well, those manmade "toys" are thoroughly engineered to be extremely safe, so
yes, there is a big difference ... riding a horse is far more dangerous than
riding a ride at an amusement park.
However, these apples and oranges are both fruit ... the point is sound.
-- “Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the
institutionalised
medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the t
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the
institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and
the
tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined
feelings.” Felix Frankfurter
