I hear what you’re saying. I have ZERO
endurance experience, and I guess my focus is a little different. A close
friend of mine qualified to ride at the WEG this year (showjumping). He sold
his property to afford to go, spent six very lonely months out there, living in
a country that didn’t speak his language, work-riding for his keep, managed to
lease a young horse that had never jumped at International level. He qualified
it himself for the Games and then the fun started when the owners tried to take
the ride away. He managed to keep the ride and rode at the Games.
He was clear in the first round until
three fences from the end when his rein broke and he had the last three fences
down. That effectively put him out of the running for a medal. I know how
proud he was to have gone and how much effort he put into it. See, South
African riders are unlikely to be able to ride their own horses in Europe, because of horse sickness, unless they base
themselves over there permanently. That means that we usually wind up riding
horses that other people have brought on.
Sad, really, but inevitable.
Hope you guys sort out the problems. Me,
I’ll stick with what I know and butt out now.
Tracey
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