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One very experience vet - retired now - once told me the horses he 
worried about were the "transition horses." That's those horses whose 
riders have decided to transition up - be it from the back of the pack 
to the middle of the pack or the middle of the pack to the front.

Truman

> Certainly you can harm a horse at any point in the pack if he is not
> sufficiently prepared to do what he is asked to do.  But to categorize
> the non-racers as having this be typical is just as wrong as
> characterizing the front runners this way.  And if I were to make any
> sort of generalization, it would be that the two areas to watch the
> most at a TYPICAL ride (not Tevis) are the unprepared ones trying to
> keep up with well-prepared front runners and the ones who drift clear
> to the back because they weren't prepared to do the ride at all.  The
> mid-packers in general tend to be realists and tend to have fewer
> problems.
>
> Heidi
>
>
>  


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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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