Re: RC: Why don't riders like to be judged?

[Mickie Newnam <akelakhan@earthlink.net>]

Lynn Kinsky wrote:

> Where did you ever get the idea that horse scores were tied to horsemanship
> scores?!  You and the horse are separately in competition and two sets of
> awards are given out. (My horses frequently place higher than I do!)
>

Lynn,OK, I standd corrected.  I must have misunderstood what I'd heard or been
misinformed.  Do riders have the option of telling the horsemanship judge they do
not want to be judged at all?  This was the case when we were doing horsemanship
awards in our club.



> Some vet judges (generally from the East or SE) have tended to judge more
> obstacles than I think they should (here in California most of our rides
> are tough enough to sort out the horses just on condition alone), but that
> is the *vet* judging the *horse*,  and a maximum of 15 points are at stake.
> Has nothing to do with the *horsemanship judge* judging *the rider*.
>

OK, that's what I have the problem with.  I want my horse judged on his condition,
period.  He'll do almost anything I ask of him (he walked through the building into
our courtyard at the nursing facility where I work; how's that for an obstacle?!),
but to me it's about fitness.But, to each his own.  I don't ride under NATRC  rules
because I prefer ours, and anyone who doesn't like AHAO rules are free to not ride
because of it too.  As someone else said (I forget who), distance riding is the
important thing, not whose rules you prefer!
Mickie

> Try checking out http://natrc.trailriding.com/rulebk.html to see what the
> reality is.
>
> Lynn Kinsky (Santa Ynez, CA)
> http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky
>
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