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The only lecture I attended was Becky Hart/Robin Groves. I thoroughly 
enjoyed it. Robin spoke first and had some great ring exercises to help our 
endurance horses carry themselves better and learn to move off their hind 
end better. I know I am guilty of spending little if any time in the arena 
myself. Now that I have a renewed sense of what to actually do in that damn 
sand lot, maybe I will make myself do just that. I wish I had drawn diagrams 
of the exercises, but I do remember a few of them. Did anyone manage to do 
that who can send me a copy???

I learned that if you "make rounds" on the vendor floor, you can find some 
great deals! I spent most of the time in the Freeform booth helping Chris 
Martin as we were so very busy! Alot of the top riders of our sport have 
seen the horses being ridden in Freeform saddles beating them out of 
BC..they want to know how the saddle may be contributing to that!

All in all, I am so glad I went. It was wonderful seeing some of you who I 
only "see" here..and of course Dr Q....~! It was very cool, to have my local 
chiropractor meet my "ridecamp" chiropractor!! I got to listen to them talk 
horse chiropractics..how cool is that?

Where is convention next year???

Ask me about our newest course, "The Couple's Retreat" in the Smoky 
Mountains of Tennessee

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> From: "rides2far@xxxxxxxx" <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   What did you learn at the convention?
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:59:28 GMT
>
> To those who went to the convention and actually got to go to the
> lectures...I'm envious!  I was so busy getting ready for talks, or
> signing books at my booth that I didn't get to attend anything.
>
> Now I'm writing an article for a magazine that wants to know what
> happened at the convention...so?
>
> As I read the line up of speakers I could kick myself for being there
> and not setting up my camcorder to video the things.
>
> What was the overall conclusion you drew from the Pride Project
> study? One person said it was that "normal" for an endurance horse
> isn't necessarily what had been considered "normal" blood profiles
> for the general horse public in the past. Comments?  Anyone got Trish
> Dowling's e-mail address?
>
> Dr. Schott reported on "Why Horses Don't Finish Endurance Rides".
> Anyone take notes on statistics or anything?  I don't have to report
> these as *fact* but trends are interesting to alude to.
>
> INTERNATIONAL  Word I heard from the International meeting was that
> they're actually giving strong consideration to dropping the World
> Championship mileage to 75 miles and having the "Grand Prix Finish"
> where if you're not finished within a certain percentage of the
> winner's time you're simply awarded points for how far you got, being
> stopped at the next vet check. If you were there...comments? (don't
> have time for a big discussion on how we feel about this
> idea...though I'm leaning towards being content for them to form
> their own sport that's that different from ours and leaving us be
> with our 100's!)  Someone on RC commented that in Becky's talk a show
> of hands was asked for as to how many were interested in
> International and 3 or 4 raised their hands. Is that so?
>
> Could anyone comment on talks by:
>
> Julie Suhr (Trail Etiquette)
> Angie McGhee (Realist's Guide or Why do I do this?)
> Victoria Maxwell DVM (Joint Health)
> Tom Sayvetz, MD (Pedigrees & breeding for Endurance)
> Olin Balch (Farriery Preferences of Endurance Riders)
> Olin Balch (wet labs)
> Backy Hart & Robin Groves (Training to Ride a More Competitive 100)
> John Crandell II, Steve Rojek, Ruth Waltenspiel, Connie Driskell &
> Jan Jeffers (Ask the Experts)
> Erin Klentos (3 years development Plan)
>
> Come on guys, share what you learned! (Man I wish I could have
> listened to them all!)
>
> My take from the convention is that AERC's emphasis now is on
> LONGEVITY. I had already come to this conclusion when I asked Mike
> Maul, the new president, what he would like to be the emphasis during
> his term. His immediate answer was "Longevity". Our awards
> (Pard'ners, & Hall of Fame went to horses with 10,000+ miles.) Many
> talks were on soundness, shoeing & joint health. Not a lot of
> emphasis on speed other than Becky's talk and from what I read on RC
> sounds like the people who went to that talk were more interested in
> completing...which again appears to be a split between the mass of
> AERC and the International emphasis. Even our fast horses are only
> glorified *after* they've stood the test of time.
>
> Comments? You've got about 8 hrs to enlighten me. :-)
>
> Angie
>
> Angie
>
>
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