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terre wrote:
> > After my last look at the database I think that may have been true 
> > some years back but I'm not sure it is today.
> >
> > I know in the SE your faster LD riders have are normally riding 
> > horses that are fit for what they're asked to do. In FL I can tell 
> > you that there are a lot of riders that ride 50 and LD and CTR on the 
> > same horse. That's been the case since I started riding distance 
> > sport down here. The horse is ready, but many times it's the rider 
> > that is the reason for the choice of what is done.
>
> Oh, I agree...but I still maintain that a smaller percentage of the 
> entrants are "racing"--many are starting young horses, rehabing 
> injured horses, yada yada--and the racers only have to beat each 
> other, not the whole field. I think they don't HAVE to ride as fast to 
> win, so they don't.
>
> terre
But this makes the assumption that everyone in the 50 is racing - that 
is in no way true. When you have a field of 70 LD's and 45 50's I expect 
there may be as many LD's that are ready to do fast as 50's that are 
ready to go fast. I guess I don't care to worry much about an 
"explanation." There are probably as many explanations as there are 
people riding.

Truman

--

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the 
axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.” Albert 
Einstein


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