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Distance_Ryder wrote:
> Cindy,
> The difference in opinion here is that I consider it inhumane to ask my 
> horse to give so much physically if he were not conditioned properly 
> ahead of time. 
>  
> How could I look into those eyes and put ask him to go 25 or 50 miles 
> without conditioning him first? 
> Shadrach 
> <http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL673/3013403/11473555/191331197.jpg>      
> He trusts that we are a partnership.  I may be a green horn at 
> endurance, though I am no green horn with horses.  Cindy, you go ahead & 
> ask an unconditioned horse to go the distance, though I am going to 
> study up and make sure that I feel my horse has been conditioned before 
> I go.  Let's end it here and agree to disagree....I am not much for 
> gambling & that is what this is coming down to~
> Best regards to you~
> Christina & Shadrach 
> <http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL673/3013403/11473555/166193833.jpg>
> Owner/Trainer
> Eclypse Sport Horses

Good LORD, people, doesn't anyone  actually read for comprehension any 
more?  Cindy never suggested taking an unconditioned horse on a ride. 
You are putting yourself up as holier-than-thou and condemning her for 
something that she never wrote.  PLEASE read her words below again, and 
this time PLEASE try to understand them!

BTW, she is 100% correct in her statement about a horse's ability to 
complete an LD ride -- without harm, and without being treated "inhumanely."

> */Cindy Collins <c_collins@xxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>     ...Because they keep emailing me directly....Although apparently I
>     don't have enough experience in endurance riding to comment on
>     conditioning horses :), let me just say that as a matter of fact I
>     did take myself to an ultra run in the BigHorn mountains with no
>     conditioning and managed to finish the 50 K (on a bet).  I completed
>     within the required time in second to last place.  However, I never,
>     ever said that I would take a 20+ year old horse out of the pasture
>     and do 25 miles.  Let me try breaking down my original statement one
>     more time:  
>     " Any horse + who can do 10-15 miles + at a reasonable pace + can
>     easily finish + a 25 mile ride + within 6 hours."  Cindy 
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>       It takes a lot of time and work to build muscle and stamina.  If
>     anyone thinks they can take a horse right out of pasture and it
>     ought to do a 25 mile without a problem needs to try and run a 10K
>     without any training first!  Then let's talk conditioning. 
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>     In the meantime it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how
>     to read the stats on AERC for hours ridden in competition and then
>     compare those names with the names on this message board! D'Arcy
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>     Cindy Collins
>     c_collins@xxxxxxx <mailto:c_collins@xxxxxxx>
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