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  Or you could look at it this way. It really isn't AERC endurance riding. 
It is  track racing. Only our TB gambling  syndicate hasn't jumped into it 
--yet. Somehow it morphed from  endurance riding-One horse, one rider , one 
day, 100 miles- a personal challenge with an equine partner to ---a 
loooonnng version of Tb track racing.
 It was kind of exciting, interesting, same as the Kentucky Derby--watching 
 the elite, admiring the horses.Rooting for the underdogs,that  almost have 
a chance--but almost  is getting more distant each year.....

   Right now it seems to have evolved on the international level to --a 
form of track racing -without the gambling windows ,yet . Right now, it has 
passed the average  orginal rider who does it for the personal challenge 
(with some competetive instincts) . It is in transition --so the "little" 
big guys with interest and $$$ and who really do it; " professionally", are 
probably going to have a major edge.
  Guess there is a real tinge of bitterness, to have it become so... not as 
it was 'intended to be'.

  But those who  are saddened to  see it "morph" so----It will  probably be 
taken over by the same  machine who now track races--- "they just haven't 
noticed it yet" . If they decide to get into it, and seems it may be headed 
there--- the current  quasi-professionals may lose their edge too.....

   It really isn't the same sport. I occasionally like to watch  other 
horse sports-- , but in all of them, rodeos, jumpers, hunters, polo, to 
some, the horse is just a tool to win or be competetive with, it's a machine 
, however admirable--- to  others the horse is  a mystery, a companion, a 
family member---
    Angie McGhee  and her 'type' are my kind of heros .(there are others, I 
just don't know their stories as well....)ah yeah, Julie Suhr, Trilby, etc.



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