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Aren't the words "reasonable" and "endurance" mutually exclusive?

Okay, I'll bite, it seems to me that in order to meet the basic criteria of "an 
endurance horse," a horse must first evince the ability to ENDURE.  Endure the 
distance, endure the rider, endure the traveling, endure the hoopla, endure the 
application of a myriad of modalities (sane and insane), endure the weather, 
endure the terrain, endure the hands of pit crews, endure the sponges and 
buckets and mashes of secret concoctions, endure the vet checking intimate 
areas of the horse, endure gravel roads, endure long stretches without adequate 
water, endure supplements of every variety, endure rump rugs come undone and 
flapping beneath the tail, endure Chlorox bleach bottles banging the shoulders, 
endure two track starts in the dark then a quick downhill to Squaw Valley, 
endure the latest tack configurations, and........

OKAY.....An Endurance RACE Horse must go to endurance races and race.  The 
results of the effort being 1) Complete the Ride, or no booty.....then 2), sort 
out the finishing from there.

Frank>

Those are reasonable definitions. Mine would differ because of a peculiarity of 
my own perceptions. "A horse that has been properly conditioned to successfully 
and safely compete at extended distances."

ti


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