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Upon reflection, it appears that maybe I'm wrong to be 
concerned.  Maybe Mongolian ponies are so tough they can be raced 
without prior conditioning, and they can carry more weight than a 
normal equine, and it doesn't matter if the rider knows how to ride 
or how tired the rider is, and Mongolian ponies don't need to have 
been wormed or trained or even broke to ride to be raced.  And maybe 
those riders really will forgo the adventure and glory and won't 
succumb to race fever, so that they will in fact stop in the middle 
of the trail if there's a problem and wait around for a vet to arrive 
to check their mount before proceeding.  And maybe the advertised 
"bleeding kidneys, broken limbs, open sores, sun stroke, moon stroke 
and a list of dangers longer than your arm" will somehow all not 
involve the ponies, who will remain unaffected by any of this.

Of course, there is a chance that all the above is true.  If so, I 
should sell my Arabian horses and start breeding Mongolian ponies for 
AERC competition.

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Catron County, New Mexico USA

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