Re: Various thoughts/recent posts

["Celia Krall" <celiak@pcrs.net>]

Good question.  Even if you're just starting a new horse out, and you've
got 
4,000 miles under your belt, you should still be able to remember the
challenges
of learning and training, no matter what your level of experience is. 
What's that old rule?
Make the right stuff easy, and the wrong stuff hard.

Something else I think would help would be a change in the rules - why
treat anything less than a 50 as second-class?  The reality is that's where
people and horses need to start out.  By setting up the rules so that a 50
is the minimum to be a "real endurance rider", we're encouraging people to
go to the longer distances before they are ready.  Denegrating people doing
less than 50 miles is just plain wrong.  Bad for the sport, and bad for the
horses.



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