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[RC] 3 day 100's - shermanTitle: MessageOdd, I thought the
multi-day rides (both 30s and 50s) were very popular and well attended, with
many of the horses doing 3-5 days without lameness, girth galls or other sores.
Everyone I know will go to the vet for the slightest problem that they detect
with their horse, be it a cut or scrape from a slip or fall or just not acting
quite right. NO ONE I know just hopes no one will notice or turns
their horses out and hope they are healed by the next ride. Is it
just the 3-day CTR 100s that have dwindling attendance? Is that your
complaint here or are you just saying that riders don't know how to take care of
their horses because they didn't come up thru CTR and do 3-day 100s?? Not a
flame, just curious about the basis of this post.
Kathy
Joy
wrote:
I
think that some of the reasons that the 3 day rides have lost interest is that
we have brought our juniors and our novices up in endurance. First with
the LD’s and then if they are good and want to go on they enter the 50 mile to
100 mile rides
Lets
face it, it is easier to set up, vet in, ride, vet out, and go home. Don’t
flame me I have been on both sides and know that most take better care of the
horse when someone is going to take points off. And unless you are top ten you
are not treating your horse the same as if you were going to be judged
closely. You are not getting all the grime off your horse before you are loading
them on the trailer to go home for instance. You are hoping that girth galls,
maybe a slight lameness, or scrapes are going to heal enough before you need the
horse to compete in a couple of weeks. AND you hope no one notices.
There are a few that will go to the vet to check out something that shows up but
there are very few.
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