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Ok....Let me put it out there VERY clear.

 

I you don't ride a half arab/half paint, MARE, with a red bullseye on one side, in aluminium shoes and pads, NO EASY BOOTS, with an orthoflex saddle, feeding beet pulp and coastal hay and never ride an LD ride, oh, and sponsor jr. riders, then in my book, you are a second class citizen. 

 

Will that do it Dawn????

 

Jody

 

PS.  I had to retired the paint/arab, so you have to ride something else like a MULE. 

Dawn Carrie <rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<<Quick please someone make some insensitive remark about shoeing/no shoeing, take a pot shot at beet pulp, rekindle that perfect endurance husband thread, why "your" breed is the only suitable endurance horse,  or  just something so we don't go down this why does everyone pick on LD road again, PLEASE>>

 

Well, to change the subject, what really chaps me is all those loose dogs running around camp.  They spook the horses, which then get loose from their inadequate electric pens/panel pens/picket lines/hi-ties and the barefoots ones lame themselves on the rocks, which wouldn't happen if they were sensibly shod.  Not all the horses get loose though...there are the ones that are on jugs - those are the ones ridden by the LD racers.  And half the riders don't even know their horses are loose, because they can't hear the hoofbeats over their generators. 

 

Dawn Carrie

 

 

On 6/23/08, Jon.Linderman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Jon.Linderman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Always seems to me like these special "goal" and recognition programs
are geared for 50+ milers and never LD's.  What about all of us LD-ers
that aren't able to do 50's for one reason or another?  (time
constraints, mostly).  :(
Seems to me like the LD riders are sort of considered to be "less than"
in the scope of AERC.  IMHO


Double sigh** Quick please someone make some insensitive remark about shoeing/no shoeing, take a pot shot at beet pulp, rekindle that perfect endurance husband thread, why "your" breed is the only suitable endurance horse,  or  just something so we don't go down this why does everyone pick on LD road again, PLEASE!  Would a non-horsie wife, 3 kids, a farm, a career (as opposed to a job) count as time constraints or just life?!