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Actually I think it has more to do with the difference with FEI 
championship endurance vs. what we think of longevity in the AREC. My 
horse has been around for a long time. We are a decade team. At 20 years 
old can he run a 5 hour 50 any longer - I would not ask him to because I 
doubt if he could. Have I taken him out to the back 40 and shot him 
because he's lost a step - nope. Will I - nope. Will I keep riding him 
as long as he keeps pulling my arms out during a ride - yep.

For FEI championship endurance when the horse starts to lose a step they 
are not going to be able to win - they find another one. We are talking 
different sports. At the FEI championship if I were interested and 
weren't too heavy to participate - when he lost a step he would be 
retired and I'd have a younger version ready to go. Different sports - 
different definitions of longevity.

Truman

Richard ALLEN wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2008, at 18:19, Steph Teeter wrote:
>
> The more difficult question of longevity - whether horses would hold 
> up longer if 120 or 160 were the max WEC distance - this would be a 
> tougher one to quanitify.
>
>
> Too many variables, you think?
>
>
> Richard ALLEN
> teamnellie@xxxxxxx <mailto:teamnellie@xxxxxxx>


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