Re: Dubai and Best Condition

[lyoness@castlenet.com (Joane White)]

>To: K S Swigart <katswig@deltanet.com>
>From: lyoness@castlenet.com (Joane White)
>Subject: Re: Dubai and Best Condition
>
>Hi Kat,
>
>Why do you feel this way?  What happened, in my opinion ,is that the
"showy" horses did well, particularly the stallion.  The plainer horses or
the less picturesque ones just didn't catch the eye as well.  For example,
Tang will pin her ears--not quite as flashy as a prancing stallion. But the
vet scores during the race tell a really different story about which horse
could go do it all over again.
>
>Joane
>
>>
>>On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Joane White wrote:
>>
>>> ride times.  Weight did not matter as long as the minimum was met.  S000, it
>>> was a very subjective choice based only on how the horse presented on the
>>> day after the ride.  The fact that one horse finished a hour earlier
>>> carrying 50 more pounds and doing it with excellent vet scores all day made
>>> no difference.  Boy am I glad we use a different set of rule in AERC. 
>>
>>Personally, I would like the AERC to do BC in this way...the horse that is
>>in the best condition at the end of the ride, period.
>>
>>But I don't feel strongly enough about it that I am going to lobby to
>>change it.
>>
>>kat
>>Orange County, Calif.
>>
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