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Can any ride managers give me the best start times for 25 / 50 and even if you have a novice ride thrown in there, etc. so we don't have anyone waiting or conjestion at the checks or even at the end? 

 

Thanks,

Stacy

Adam and Jannelle <mfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> SandyDSA@xxxxxxx said.... I have found it usual to
> be set aside in favor of the longer distance riders, and indeed have been 
> TOLD
> that this is because they are going twice the distance and therefore are
> most important. Generally this is true - not always - but certainly 
> indicates a
> higher level of importance put on the horses going the longer 
> distances...
>
>
> At many rides here in the NW we do try to get 50 milers through the vet 
> check and sometimes will give priority to a 25 mile completion exam. We 
> try to keep the people who are continuing the ride moving through the 
> system, but when I do traffic at a vet check also try not to let any of the 
> LD wait to long, they have worked hard as well and get my respect for doing 
> so. This is really the only time that I have noticed a preferance given to 
> longer distances as compaired to LD. I
>  have ridden both and never felt 
> that I was treated as a lesser rider.
>
> Adam
>
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