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sounds pretty good....someone has to manage the deal...office 
won't...Angie?....Cora

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> OK folks, I'm cleaning house again and have too much time to think. I hit
> "Check Mail" between vacuuming each  room, then have something to think
> about while I try to shake that screw back out that I just vacuuamed up.
> Soo...I get kinda depressed when I see  posts about galloping in circles
> 100 miles and get to thinking about how to get folks back on "the path".
> You know, what's dear to my heart is the idea of pulling more riders into
> the 100 miles "just because" crowd and I had an idea. 
>
> JUST FOR FUN. What if we had a "futurity". Not one where they take young
> horses and push them too fast to do amazing things when they're 2 or 3.
> What if I said, "Hey, everybody who just bought a new horse that they
> have great hopes for...put up $10 and enter the AERC futurity. The horse
> can't have done any endurance miles yet (or we could call this the first
> season)...but in his 3rd season...he's got to COMPLETE a 100 to get his
> share of the pot...split evenly between all nominees. You *know* the
> attrition rate of people who "plan" to do a 100 and those who finally get
> there. I'm figuring if we had a good turn out it would payback 10 to 1!
> I'd nominate Josie's horse just to give her a time-line. Maybe we should
> say they have to do at least 300 miles of endurance in the first 2
> seasons. That's low enough for the folks who train a lot but campaign on
> a more limited basis. Maybe a percentage could even go to the trails fund
> or something. Anybody think that sounds fun?
>
> Angie
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