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First, the statement about Home on the Range is untrue.  The reported time 
for the winner of the LD Ride is less than one half the reported time for 
places 7-10 on the 50

Second, some of (maybe all, I don't know) the LD results reported in EN 
include hold time.  The reported times for the 50s do NOT include hold 
time.  To compare a 25 mile 3 hr ridetime that includes 30 minutes of hold 
to a 50 mile 5 hr ridetime that does not include holds and then say, "Oh 
look.  The LDs aren't racing like the 50s" is disingenuous at best.

Without any personal experience, I would be willing to accept the claim 
that most LD riders are conservative riders.  But the claim that the LD 
WINNERS take 1 1/2 hours longer to complete than the 50s do to reach their 
lunch stop?  Nahh.... that's too much of a stretch especially since when I 
had a Top Ten horse, there were often several 25ers at the lunch stop 
before me.

So, look in EN at the LD results.  Just about every EN has at least one 
instance of a finishing 25 mile LD rider with a reported time more than 
5:45.  Every one of those is a mistake, either because the time includes 
holds or because it doesn't and the rider should have been disqualified and 
not received mileage.  And if the hold time on a 25 is 1/2 hr, then any 
finish over 5:30 is an error.

And as to Home on the Range, IF the reported times for that LD include a 20 
minute hold, the top 6 LD riders all rode faster than the 7th place 50.  If 
the hold was 30 minutes and included, they all rode faster than the 4th 
place 50.

M Paul latiolais wrote:
> At the first ride of the season this year (Home on the  
> Range) the ride times of ALL of the top ten 50's were less than twice  
> that of the first 25-mile rider.    They were all going faster...



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