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Re: [RC] I must confess (was: Myths) - Robert R

Competing below your ability isn't always chicken shit but probably usually is. By way of example, my wife shows western pleasure QH in local and class A shows and nearly always does very, very well. She and her horse are ready to move up but our pocket book certainly isn't ready for breed level competition and/or world or congress shows. Should she quit? The compromise we found was starting another from scratch a couple years ago and low and behold, she was placing in the top in open before the horse ever should have been out of junior classes but dropping $500 plus for a weekend isn't an option right now. I know that is completely different from the situation described but I think there are plausible reason to run below your grade level.
----- Original Message ----- From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: [RC] I must confess (was: Myths)



David LeBlanc said about PNER team awards:

The team that won last year did a LOT
of LD, mostly because they could put their
experienced 50+ mile horses in the LD,
come in way up front, and have a very
low pull rate.


This, to me, is a perfect illustration for why you DON'T want to be
offering awards like those that he has described.  It, apparently,
motivates people to do the chicken-shit thing of "competing below their
class."

If you do something like that in flat track racing (e.g. run your stakes
winner in a low level claiming race) you may win the race, but you will
lose the horse (to somebody claiming it away from you).

Putting your experienced 50+ mile horse in the LD just so you can win
extra points is chicken-shit.  People start making a habit of doing
this, and the AERC will have to come up with rules prohibiting it.

People don't compete their Grand Prix jumpers in schooling shows either,
at least not without turning their numbers over and riding Hors de
Concours (i.e. just schooling, coming off an injury, or some such thing
and don't want to be considered for placement)...unless they are also
chicken-shit.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)

kat
Orange County, Calif.
"Le meilleur que je sais les hommes le plus que j'aime mon
cheval."--Catherine the Great



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