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RE: [RC] my mistake - heidi

Bingo, Angie.  We work until we are blue in the face here to let people know that it is ok to pull, it is the right thing to do to pull, it is in the horse's best interests to pull, etc.  To castigate these people for a high pull rate is contradictory to that message. 
 
These horses are pulled for the slightest offness, and that is a GOOD thing.  To these riders, the concept that one might be able to slow down and complete with a horse that is less than 100% is simply not in their lexicon.  Are we "better" than they are because we do that?  I'm not so sure.  Additionally, if they can't be first or in the first few, they WANT to quit.  Is that wrong?
 
Sorry, Lisa, this isn't about who has billions of dollars--Angie is right on the mark that we shouldn't be pointing fingers at their pull rate.  There are some other aspects of the sport the way they do it that I don't like, and I don't want to ride that way.  And there might be other aspects where you could point to the money.  But in the case of the pulls, the rich folks are accepting failure.  Imagine that!  I wish a few of our riders were as easy to convince that it is ok to pull!!!
 
Heidi


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [RC]   my mistake
From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, February 19, 2007 8:21 am
To: jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Lisa Salas, The odd faRm

Lisa, you are not the only one who hates the super fast, race track,
person with the most money, biggest staff wins "endurance" racing. All
we're telling you is that basing your whole argument on pull rate simply
opens you up to someone else pointing out *our* pull rate.  My personal
reaction to 6:41 100 is, "that's obscene", but a high pull rate isn't the
worst thing that could happen. What would you think if the pull rate was
*incredibly* low? What if *no* horses had been lame? That's where I'd
have figured there was lots of abuse.

Angie

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