Re: RC: Why don't riders like to be judged?(I wonder)

[Dbeverly4@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/21/99 8:48:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
akelakhan@earthlink.net writes:

<< I just feel, as do all of the
 other riders in my club who I've talked to about it -- our club sanctions 
both
 CTR and endurance-- that it should be separate from the horse's score!   I 
want
 my horse judged on his condition, not how well we can do what someone thinks 
we
 should. >>

Horses ARE judged separately from their riders in NATRC.  However, they are 
also judged on how well they can do some things.  LIKE negotiating a gnarly 
bog, or down and out, or steep up-hill -- we're talking control here. etc. 
etc.  And, yes, maybe they're judged on how well they listen to their rider 
when asked to open a gate or manuver through something.  Speaking as a person 
who has ridden the Tevis, the Outlaw Trail, the Virginia City 100 and a bunch 
of AERC 50's,(and, boy, I'm not done yet!) I truly believe that the 
principles of NATRC are sound.  The horse should be part of a team with the 
rider.  The care and consideration of the horse comes first (like it or not) 
-- even IF they are tied to the horse trailer during the process -- eeek!  
Nobody likes being criticized.  However, fact of life here, we can all do 
better. what is so wrong with opening oneself to a little examination?  Are 
we all so perfect that we don't need perfecting?  All this being said, I am 
realizing that NATRC is not a totally popular sport among the endurance 
minded -- sad to say.  Soooo, blast away!

Sylvia


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