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

Seems to me that if winning is important to a rider and if a rider is a front runner that seems to be the case, they would train the horse to get over such stuff and concentrate on the job at hand. If a horse had such a problem - I would know the best way to beat them if I were so inclined to want to do so.

Truman

Sharon Levasseur wrote:

IME, the problem comes when you are riding far enough behind the frontrunning horse that he KNOWS you're there but doesn't consider you to be riding WITH him.  The frontrunning horse then spends half his energy going forward and the other half worrying about whether he should wait for the horse behind him.  Maybe not all horses react this way, but when they do, it is exhausting for both horse and rider!
-Sharon L. in Maine




Quoting Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

k s swigart wrote:

I must confess I am having a hard time figuring out why I would  care if somebody were riding behind me at the same pace as I am (I  am assuming we are not talking about tailgating here).

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