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The logic is that the game is a test of fitness of each horse.You can't allow riders to lead their horses along the trail if the whole point of the game is to score the horse's fitness!

 

CTR is not endurance. It's a TIMED and JUDGED event. You have a certain pace to ride the ride. Too fast or too slow, you are penalized. It's judged on the fitness of the horse.. in all parameters...legs, metabolics, hydration, tack and back, and attitude and impulsion at the end of the ride.

 

Sometimes, the RM will set a rule such as you must trot in the last mile of the ride. They have to do things to separate the men from the boys so to speak. Because these horses can be so fit that it takes fractions of points to separate them and get a winner. And it's because some riders like to race through the ride and then wait around close to the finish line resting their horse and then walk in with the horse all relaxed and fresh. If everyone has to keep moving the last mile or two, then people can't do that.

 

There are times when there are trail hazards and a RM will tell you that you can dismount and lead your horse, say across a railroad track or something, but as soon as you get past that hazard you must remount to keep going.

 

You can always dismount to let your horse graze or rest or drink, but if you start back down the trail, you must be on the horse.

 

chris

Diane Trefethen <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I can sort of understand not allowing anything that would protect the horse 
> on its legs since that way all the horses are subject to the same trail, 
> but what is the logic on the "no forward movement while dismounted"
>  rule?

?A short horse is soon curried?

 

Chris Paus

 

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