Tom Ivers comments.

[K S Swigart <katswig@deltanet.com>]

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:12:39 EDT
From: Tivers@aol.com
To: Teddy@runningbear.com, katswig@deltanet.com, ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: Re: Newbie query:  why required weight?

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In racehorses, what you worry about with extra handicapping weight is not
reduced performance necessarily, but breakdown.

ti

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[kat] Which is exactly what the eventing people said.  That making the
horses carry extra dead weight was not affecting the outcome of the
competition at all, it was just increasing the likelihood of injury to
horses.

Acknowledging that this was a bad thing, they got rid of the rule.

I would think that the endurance people at the FEI would also acknowledge
that increasing the liklihood of breakdown of endurance horses is also a
BAD thing.

kat
Orange County, Calif.