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[RC] WEG - luck - et caetera - Leonard.LiesensYou were speaking
about luck...
Sure that we need
luck to get some success in an interantional competition, like in any other in
fact.
First I was
extremely lucky to cross the road of Orfeo my best horse. Then to find the best
farrier to shoe him in a proper way without impacting his bad legs too much.
Then to get access to good training area, to meet good friends to determine the
best possible training regimen. Then he was lucky (hmmmh) to get a balanced (and
light) rider who cared like a maniac for his legs and paid all possible
protective drugs (legend, adequan, gluco supplements, tildren, etc...). He got
also lucky to carry a rider maniac about all rocks, pavements, mud, deep sand
that they were crossing during conditioning rides AND RACES.
Sure it is luck.
Thanks God and thanks Orfeo.
It is also luck to
meet Stephanie and do the Tevis and have the chance to ride Santini (you
remember Kat at the Outlaw trail:-) at the PanAM, a guy that no one was willing
to ride and that I consider as the best horse that Steph and John have in their
stables.
It was also luck for
me to win the Aachen pre-ride with my crazy Arazi. Luck (thanks God) that I
chose for the right tactic to start in the front and ran as crazy for 5
kms to be able to navigate alone ot the lead without anyone getting the
chance to excite my crazy horse. And to survice in the lead for the whole 160km
with the others coming closer and closer...
Luck also to care
for any single detail : a girth not chaffing, being maniac about the shoeing, a
good saddle, trying to stay balanced, to carry good chaps that do not rub your
legs and avoid any interference with your horse... and the list goes on and
on...
I remember this
sentence, I think it was written by the Master Nuno Oliveira... "l equitation
est une multitude de petits details qui doivent tous etre respectes"
"Riding is a made of a sum of tiny details that have all to be
respected".
Or the Murphy law
also... if something can go wrong it will go wrong... especially during a 100
miles ride.
so, everyone need
luck... and it is very true in our sport
Let's hope Steph and
I having luck at the Sultan's Cup :-)
bye bye for
nom
Leonard,
Belgium
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