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Re: RC: Re: THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
In a message dated 08/25/1999 9:46:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jlong@mti.net
writes:
<<
Aside from any question of mileage requirements for any awards
program, people don't "ruin horses" accumulating miles. Quite the
opposite, if you need to complete a lot of miles you *MUST* take good
care of your horse. When today's ride is all that counts you can take
risks you dare not take when you've got to ride again tomorrow, or
next week.
>>
Joe,
A big concern I have is that there is a whole different crowd out there now
(including myself) than there was in the youth of endurance. Nowadays people
think they can go out buy a truck and trailer and start competing their horse
immediately. The word "endurance" expresses adventure and that's what baby
boomers (including myself) are looking for today. I live in an equine
community which brings in a lot of weekend trail riders every week. They see
my wife and myself conditioning and naturally our attire is a little
different from western trailriders and they always want to know about our
sport. Of course we get excited describing endurance and yes, they want to
start endurance, which is great, but conditioning, conditioning,
conditioning,...is what we pound into their head but again most think their
horses are conditioned because they trailride them every weekend. I know you
are thinking that this doesn't have anything to do with the NC but think of
the (newbie)competitors that will go out and try to put the required
mileage's on their horses when their horses are not ready. These are the
horses we never hear about. We only hear about the horses that make it to
the NC.
Phil
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