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[RC] LD / Endurance 2 more cents - maryI totally agree with
Howard. The horse does not care. I ride LD and at this point have no
desire to go to 50's. I just enjoy the ride and look forward to the vet
checks just to see if I am doing right by my horse. Maybe someday I will
want to do 50's, but I doubt it. I like the trails, being around others
that enjoy horses and like to ride more than 1 hour at a time, and I like
learning. I don't care anything about BC awards. All I am interested
in is improving, learning to take better care of my horse - feeding -
riding etc.which can be seen by the vet scores. The only thing that
bothers me is the name LD. When you talk to people that know nothing about
the sport, they have no conception of what in the world LD is. Why not
call the different mileage rides by Endurance Level 1, Endurance Level 2
etc. or something to that effect and leave the awards for the higher
mileage. riders? That way you can tell non-horse people that you ride
endurance and they somewhat understand - to them 25 miles is endurance.
When speaking to other endurance riders, you could specify the miles you
ride.
Mary
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