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[RC] Rides of March / Karen Chaton's report - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Laurie H. Anderson Tattonkagrizzly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== I'm not going to get into a "he said - she said", but -- I have been riding Nevada rides, TOUGH rides, including all the hard 100's, since 1988, with an exceptional completion record. This is same record for at least two of the other "Rider Options" at Saturday's "Rides of March". I had a lot of time to think about this (since the ride management had forgotten to come get me at the "lunch check", and we had to track them down on a cell phone and have the vet remind them we were still out there, and finally got back to camp at 8:30 P.M.). I take extreme exception to being accused of showing up to the ride with an underconditioned horse. This goes for the other Rider Options as well. Statistics cannot be negated - Rides of March started 60 horses for the 50 miler. 24 (40%) were either pulled or opted for a Rider Option. I completed the first two years, on the original Rides of March trail, with no problems. I was not going to get involved in this - but Karen's comments take the proverbial cake! Oh, and by the way, I created and donated the artwork for the completion awards, one of which Karen received - my intentions began on a very positive note. An apology is in order to those of us who took care of our horses, and were congratulated and thanked REPEATEDLY by the veterinarian for our horsemanship. Even though we were urged by ride management to "run on in" - we made our decisions in favor of our horses. AT LEAST STATISTICS NEVER LIE! Laurie H. Anderson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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