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I didn't do a one day 100 this year, but did last year, I was too 
busy doing multidays, they don't schedule well together usually.  I 
had somebody ask about riding Chief to drag ride a LD ride one day 
this year and well, (nobody rides him but me to begin with), but my 
reply is that he is an endurance horse.  That's how I condition him, 
why would I pay $ to do that.   I'm pretty sure that Dave Rabe also 
rode a 100 on one of the two horses that he has in the mileage 
category.  When we asked him if he had ever done an LD (in 37,000 
miles), he also replied "why would I pay to do a training ride".  So 
I think that for the most part people who are already riding their 
horses on mutlidays and 100's already know how to condition them, so 
probably aren't doing a lot of LD rides.  I sort of consider one day 
50's to be conditioning rides if getting ready for an upcoming 100 or 
multiday.  You guys can call it whatever you want, but the way I feel 
about it is that if you want an endurance horse, you gotta ride that 
horse in endurance rides -- which eventually means one day 100's, 
and/or multidays (I think doing a 5 day ride on the same horse is a 
lot more significant than doing a one day 100).  I'm one of the 
riders who think that doing LD's on some horses is more harmful than 
helpful.  It all depends on the horse, and the rider.

Karen
in NV

 

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