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heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Call yourself what you want--our bylaws do not define riders, they 
> define rides.  You may be an "endurance rider" who simply has never 
> done an "endurance ride."
>  
> As for dressage, those of us who have never ridden beyond training 
> level do not try to pass ourselves off as Grand Prix riders.
But you are still a dressage rider. In reality as I found out one time 
from my dressage instructor anyone can show up a ride a Grand Prix test. 
So I guess a rank beginner could call themselve a Grand Prix rider if 
they entered a Grand Prix class.

Frankly this whole "what do these upstarts LDer's mean calling 
themselves "endurance riders" well how dare they - they are not 
endurance riders" get sort of old every three months. Not to mention the 
piling one of "well I have done an LD and I don't think there should be 
placement oh me oh my the sky is falling because there was LD placement."

Quite frankly most of this discussion just appears to me to be down 
right rude. But hey I'm just a good ol' Southern boy we get along down 
here. We got people riding the "short race", the "long race" and if they 
have it the "all night race." It works and everybody's happy.

Truman


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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
into you.”  Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


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