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Title: "There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong

I can't speak directly for her but I expect it was because it was a small ride run by a gracious woman where we were keeping our horses in Utah. It was a small ride that she wanted to support (my wife also rode to support the ride) and helped with the ride. She also wanted to ride and get the cobwebs out since she we were all planning on doing a 50 in CO the next weekend. As far as winning I don't think she had much a choice, Quicky seemed to be in charge that day.

Truman

k s swigart wrote:

Truman said:

 

> I remember in 1996 when a friend and I were out for the ROC -

> which we finished - she took her horse in an LD two weeks later.

> I think she won.

 

I must confess, I find this statement to be rather odd.  Why would somebody who has an ROC qualified (and completed) horse (i.e. top ten 100 miler) take it to an LD ride...and "win" it?

 

To me this is the equivalent of entering and winning a Training Level dressage test with a Grand Prix dressage horse.  Or winning the schooling jumpers with a World Cup Jumper (which, incidentally, in the jumper world is against the rules).  Or taking a stakes winning race horse and winning a claming race (which, in the racing world would be really stupid, because though it isn't aginst the rules, somebody IS gonna claim the horse away from you).

 

In most sporting endeavours, competing below your class is considered chicken shit even if they don't have policies in place to discourage or forbid it.

 

Is it, or was it, a common practice to do so in SE endurance?  Or was this a one off?  (Or did it not happen at all, and Truman just doesn't remember rightly?)

 

kat

Orange County, Calif.

:)

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"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong." H. L. Mencken