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WOW, no, I am so sorry...I did not mean to imply that someone should sit a trot for 50 miles!!!! No way on earth..they would need a team of chiropractors after that...Im just talking about sitting SOME of it...not All of it.

Sorry aobu the misunderstanding!
PattyP

 

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From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx

Date: 1/2/2007 10:05:16 AM

To: desertridingal@xxxxxxx

Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: [RC] bouncing...dressage?

 

> Watch this! :) >   > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbUDJJtjV4 >   >

PattyP

 

OK, I spent about 30 min. letting my incredibly slow dial up download

that movie one frame at a time. Each time it had a tiny bit more

downloaded I watched it again, and waited and waited for her to sit a

trot that was faster than 2 mph. :-P  The video is lovely, the horse is

beaufully trained, but can you imagine a horse doing that for 50 miles?

>g<  I'm figuring it would take around 2 days once you averaged in all

the Piaffes. I'm not saying endurance horses will never move like that.

If everybody's right about us losing all our trails, we might *want* them

to trot that slow. Then we can make 5 miles last for 12 hours and feel

like we're still doing distance. :-))

 

Yes I have seen dressage riders sit a huge trot as they angle across the

ring, but it obviously requires a great deal of skill and effort. I just

don't see it being a worthwhile discussion as a method of competing in

endurance.

 

Angie