Re: [RC] Is it possible-- reponse to Ed - Dbeverly4
In a message dated 2/15/2006 3:54:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tallcarabians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Sounds like some
great horses, Sylvia, but they don’t quite fit the mold of “untrained” before
they started endurance. They both had a base of previous competition,
which would be quite different from a horse that’s just been a pasture
potato.
That's true. OK, I remembered some more <g>.
FX Duende.....one 50 mile ride, then 3 Tevis completions in subsequent
years. Not many other rides at all. He was a show horse before that,
kind of a step up from a pasture potato :). This was a number of years
ago, but he's sound and still going strong (some might say too strong
<g>)
The same owner, Cindy Oster, also had 2 other horses, Spring and Baron, who
pretty much did nothing before they finished Tevis. (They probably fit
the "pure pasture potato" criteria better than the Duende example :) She
did live near the trail though and trained on it regularly. I think there
is an advantage there. Another example is Dzien Dobrey ridden by Jim
McKibbin....no rides prior to Tevis. He had been doing nothing but the
lawn ornament thing for close to a year before Jim got him.
All I'm saying is it can be done.....should it? Not by the
inexperienced, that's for sure.
