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rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Somehow it seems to have gotten to the point on 
> > the> international scene that to be a winner you go beyond any hint of 
> > "fun> sport" and enter the realm of "business of racing". Becomes as
> > interesting to me as a calculous problem. 
> >    
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It will be interesting to see if as the Pan Am moves out of the US as 
the prime hosting - if this continues to be the case. I suspect that the 
trend set by the UAE my be the future of all international 
championships. Only time will tell. Given the current trend of pushing 
for more speed in the FEI championships (as witnessed by the decrease in 
the COC), it is unclear if any championship will be run on a mountain 
course in the future. Given the FEI would like to either "finish before 
dark" it would be interesting to see if they go to ending the event when 
after the first so many finish or cut the distance from 160 to 120 km.

Only time will tell on these issues, but I suspect that the Pan Am in 5 
years won't be the same as it was 5 years ago in 1988 (help me her Tom) 
when it was run in Front Royal.

As always the experiment is running - we'll check the results in a few 
years.

Truman

> Here I go responding to MY own post! Just an additional comment. I find
> Pan Ams *very* interesting...the best of our best racing our way...most
> of the horses are from one or two horse stables owned, trained & ridden
> by one person. It's just the Dubai thing, buy horses that someone else
> has winning, get a 100 horse stable, with as many stable boys, pushing to
> the fine edge of the razor and having one horse that runs an outrageously
> fast race once....that's not interesting to me. To watch our riders run
> against them isn't very interesting to me. I don't begrudge them going at
> all. More power to them. It just hasn't caught my interest. 
>
> Will I be impressed if we ever win with those odds? Of course.  I saw
> Iron Man at Biltmore 2 years ago so I know Val's been riding him for
> awhile. I liked him A LOT. He looks like my kind of horse. He's not short
> but he's not one of those leggy TB looking things either. Looks like he
> could tear up a mountain course. Go Val & Danielle!
>
> Angie 
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