Re: [RC] Why would somebody do this? - Sandy Adams
I can absolutely understand ENTERING an LD perhaps as a true conditioning ride for a horse doing longer distance - but so called "winning" it - why? To me, it would be useful to avail myself of trails not otherwise available to condition my horse on - but for that purpose only. Moseying through a 25 miler to condition on those trails is worthwhile - but why would someone take a horse like THAT and apparently gallop through an LD - so conspicuously??
S
On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:05 AM, 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?)
