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Thanks, Cindy --
It is the "LD is just training attitude" that I disagree with, since  
AERC has an entire section of their rule book devoted to the rules for  
an LD *competition*.  I think that rule L7 contributes to the problem,  
as it allows an LD to be run without recording ride time and  
placing.   Either an LD is a recognized competitive division, or it  
isn't.  If it is (and the AERC rules do define it as such), then it is  
not "training".  To say that it is is to demean the efforts of the  
people participating in the event.

I have never tried to Top 10, in either LD or in a 50, but I know  
there are people who do go for the LD Top 10 / BC.  They wouldn't do  
it if it didn't mean something to them.  Why take that away, and  
disparage their effort by calling it "training"?    The problem of  
overridden horses (at *any* distance) is a separate issue from whether  
the LD distance is considered a competition.



On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:25 PM, peanut2@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I have always been treated well and have never felt I was looked  
> down on
> when riding LD's. But, it has been stressed that LD's were considered
> training/conditoning ride and not a competition to be raced.


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