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LOL--as if real event riders (certainly not DQ or EQ) don't care  
about the colors in their turnout?!  That they do doesn't make them  
pansies IMO.

It's certainly harmless having color coordinated tack--now if that  
would extend to color coordinated rider attire, my ride photos would  
certainly be prettier like the cross country event photos.

But yeah, using things till they break (like zippers and worn out  
velcro) and then using hay string to keep 'em going, that's certainly  
an endurance rider characteristic.  Faded pommel/cantle bags are a  
sign of experience.

I'll bet no endurance horse goes without the nutritional essentials  
and fripperies just because their rider likes sartorial splendor!  ;-)

Besides, it keeps the endurance tack vendors going, so they're there  
when we need 'em, especially at rides when that patched together  
piece of gear finally gives up the ghost.

Lynne
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com



On Dec 1, 2007, at 11:01 AM, heidi larson wrote:

> I bet if we deleted all endurance riders who have color
> coordinated tack, ridecamps would be PRETTY small!  It's
> the artist and shopper in me, I'd rather buy tack than go
> to the mall, forgive me my sins, they are few, but really
> big apparently ................ :)
>
> heidi
>
>
>
> --- k s swigart <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > heidi larson <ribbitttreefrog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > when Paddi at CTH has a sale and you "have" to get
> > > something new, just because your horse "must" be tired
> > of
> > > his current colors!
> >
> > This sounds very much like something a "Dressage Queen"
> > (DQ) would say.
> > To me, this would be a sign that the person has stopped
> > being an
> > endurance rider and has become an EQ instead.
> >
> > Real endurance riders don't care about the color of their
> > tack and don't
> > replace it until it has become non-functional...and
> > often, not even
> > then, if it can be "fixed" with some baling twine.
> >
> > kat
> > Orange County, Calif.
> > :)
> >
> >
> > "If the end justifies the means, everybody is justified."
> > John G. Beck,
> > PhD
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