Re: Time for a new motto --- Never!!

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

"To finish is to win" is a GOOD  motto.  It provides everyone the
opportunity to arrive at a "personal best".  It saves a lot of horses from
the "evils" of racing.  The "win at all costs", riders give endurance riding
a bad name.  The sport is endurance riding not endurance racing.  Only a
small percentage of the riders out there are actually racers.  I see a lot
of 3,000 plus mileage horses out there and even a few with 10,000 plus
miles.  I am in awe of these horses and the riders that got them there.  I
bet very few of them "raced" all of their miles.  To refer to riders that go
to complete as "Losers" is awfully arrogant.  Any respect that I may have
had for your opinion in the past or in the future is now defunct.
gesa n clovis

-----Original Message-----
From: Tivers@aol.com <Tivers@aol.com>
To: fasterhorses@gilanet.com <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>;
ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Saturday, December 18, 1999 12:51 AM
Subject: RC: Time for a new motto


>I think the "To finish is to win" motto is a little limp. Especially when,
in
>any genuine sport, to win is to win. Therefore, I think we should have a
>contest for the best new motto. For example, for half this group, the real
>motto is To Win Is To Lose, or Winning Is For Losers. For another
significant
>portion, the motto is, To Show up Is To Win, or To Throw Up Is To Win, or
To
>Tie Up Is To Win, or To Want To Finish Is To Win.
>
>I'm sure we can all come up with something better than To Finish Is To Win.
>
>ti
>
>
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