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[RC] tom and impressive records - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: wendy lumbert wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Still thinking about tom ivers and all his innovative ideas and vast knowledge of facts and scientific studies, when I realized that there are a ton of newbies that don't know some impressive facts from the past. Tom and I had many discussions about nutrition and loaders and conditioning, and how there was no substitute for putting the training miles on your horse. I'd like to offer a statistic as proof that you can get astonishing performance from an endurance horse with proper conditioning. Dolly DeCair (the same Dolly who just got hurt recently) never did use anything fancy, as she liked to say. Just trained her horses hard and fast and they got grain and mash, cleaned up and smooched a bunch. In 1988 she rode her stallion Wazir's Karahty on two 100 mile races, one 75 miler, and two 50s in SEVEN WEEKS. He won all 5 races and got BC on three. That was a long time ago but I never see anyone ride like that anymore. Anyone have any ideas why we have so much more to offer our horses now but some ran faster and harder 18 years ago? Just curious. wendy lumbert =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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