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Lynne Glazer wrote:
> Hey, not "FOLKS".  ONE guy, with an agenda.  Ease up, and thanks for  
> your reports.

Hey, wait a minute.  Mr Seits may have been abrasive but don't throw out 
his "baby with the bath water" by calling it an agenda.  His points were 
accurate regarding our inability to field a team that can compete 
successfully.  As to the Steve Rojek stuff, on 19-Aug-06, appalucie@xxxxxxx 
wrote, "Steve Rojacks horse will not be competing, the horse has a foot 
problem, that has developed over the last few weeks..."  My mama always 
told me "a couple" meant two and "a few" meant three or more.  Since the 
horses arrived in Germany on 06-Aug-06, it is completely reasonable to 
assume from that statement that the horse's problem had already made its 
appearance before the horses were shipped.  If that is true, the only valid 
reason for shipping the horse would have been the hope that the problem 
would resolve itself.  But that was exactly Mr Seits' point.  Why are we 
shipping a horse that MIGHT be ok when there are hundreds here that ARE ok? 
 Then in Lucie's clarification she said, "What I was trying to say was 
that the horse developed the lameness issue before the  Horse/rider 
combinations were picked for the team. I was trying to say that the 
lameness issue had developed while the horses were in Germany and very 
close to the race date".  This sounds like a contradiction to me.  I would 
think the horse/rider combos were picked before shipping them overseas, 
right?  So if the lameness thing came up "before the  Horse/rider 
combinations were picked", that would have been before they were shipped. 
Even if the absolute last picky picking didn't occur till AFTER the horses 
were in Germany, stating "the lameness issue had developed ... very close 
to the race date" is NOT the same as, "the horse has a foot problem, that 
has developed over the last few weeks".

I read Mr Seits' remarks as primarily an attack on the way we pick our 
team.  He seemed to me to be saying we picked it more in the "good old boy" 
tradition than in the "put your best foot forward" tradition.

If that was his point, I think he is right.


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