RE: [RC] Armadillo Ride this weekend email from IGNORANT person - Rae Callaway
Was this person at the ride? I
was. I don’t remember riding through hell. In fact, the trail
I rode on had so little mud (only the first and last mile or less) that I
forgot that it had rained so much earlier. Major KUDOS to Linda and Bo
and all their tireless volunteers who did a FANTASTIC job making this ride work.. I think our rigs went through a lot
more trauma than the horses did, what with having to be towed in and out of
ridecamp by bulldozer. :o)
Rae
Tall C Arabians - Central
From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sharie Stocklin Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006
6:55 PM To: Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Armadillo Ride this
weekend email from IGNORANT person
This
person OFFENDED me to say the LEAST.
Sharie
Stocklin
CT
Region
To All Concerned:
Those of you who rode this ride call
yourselves horse people? This is down right ABUSE and sheer stupidity. IF
it was raining and flooding like that, did it occur to anyone to call off the
ride? You PONDERED it? Well, I highlighted the abuse in
red below for ALL of you to PONDER!
It is an outrage that any horse owner
would put an animal through this. And you wonder why people think
endurance can be abusive? This is a perfect example!
The logical and SMART thing to do would
have been to CANCEL THE RIDE!
Instead, your EGOS put those
poor horses through hell. It should be against the law.
Thanks for giving me a perfect example of
abuse in the endurance industry to cross post on websites. Hopefully
it will outrage enough people to raise hell with the sponsors of this
ride.
But hey, some of you finished in the top
10, so whoop-de-do! But how many horses,
including the one that flipped out and ran
away, will ever recover from this trauma?
Please take me off your
email list. I can't stand to see what people put their
horses through. It's criminal and I have no interest in hearing
about it.
And then you sign the email, "horses
first?" I think a reality check is definitely in order!
