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I don't have to be fair. I know what they went there for. It doesn't make it 
any less cruel to me. I envision what Frank wrote recently about seeing a 
rider whip his or her horse with a stick or branch just to get across the 
finish line. It sickens me.

Actually, they only brought 28 who have "proven they have trained to the 
point that they can run those speeds,". We probably didn't see that many 
metabolics yet because the horses haven't had TIME to get sick! Oh geeze, 
there goes my blood pressure :(

I would still like to see where those horses are next year.

Lisa Salas, The Odd faRm
Going to run my 11 minutes miles and enjoy every slow mile ;)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] President's cup


> > Boy, when I started scrolling down the elimination page I kept
> > saying,"Wow. Wow! WOW! ARE YOU KIDDING?!"
>
> To be fair, what else can you expect. It's not like our rides where 5
> show up to race and 95 show up to complete. Everybody showed up to race
> and go for the win. Not like you'd go over there for the scenery. >g<
> There were very few metabolic pulls though which is also interesting at
> those speeds.
>
> Here's what struck me. The recoveries are amazing...but you just don't
> get recoveries like that on raceday without a tremendous amount of
> pushing the envelope in training. Competition is not the only place where
> things can go wrong. Courtney hinted at that in one of his posts. I think
> what would be *really* interesting...but would never happen, is for all
> riders to declare what horses they wanted eligible and were in training
> for this ride a year or two in advance. I wonder how many horses have
> been trained for this ride but couldn't handle that level of training.
> Doesn't mean they're dead or anything, just that they were weeded out in
> the process. If you're going for that sort of recoveries at those speeds,
> you've put a lot of stress on those legs. They're apparently only
> bringing the ones who have proven they have trained to the point that
> they can run those speeds, but the stress of it showed.
>
> Angie McGhee 


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