Re: RC: RC: Reply from an educated derelict

[DreamWeaver <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>]

At 02:45 PM 12/26/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>   When I hear people wondering if they should try it, and when I wonder
>if *I* should try it, I'm thinking, "Will this make me faster?"  My horse

That's where I think differently.  I think along the lines of "will that 
help my horse come thru the ride in better shape".  I'm not so interested 
in one ride as I am a whole season, or at the very least - the next ride so 
I need my horses to finish each ride in good enough condition because they 
may very well be competing in another event in another week or two.  Most 
of the time I like to give plenty of rest and think that is really the 
secret.  We both want our horses to finish in good shape, you just want to 
be faster on a more regular basis - nothing wrong with that, and IMO, 
supplementing CC to Kaboot at this point in his career might prove really 
beneficial.  You won't know till you try it.

>is doing fine on feed at his present level...but "will this help me go
>faster?".  Maybe I missed the point, but when people suggested it's "the
>direction the sport is going" I thought they were referring to the fast
>100's for high stakes, not keeping horses going day after day on
>multi-days.

I'm thinking along the lines that most of the people on ridecamp are more 
like me, and want to learn what products might help their horses.  Not to 
go faster, but to do the job with less stress and come out looking better 
when all is said and done.  Not very many people are doing the hi-stakes 
100's.  I'll bet you over 100 riders will start the Death Valley Encounter 
on Tuesday though.  Granted, in my region we do get a lot of riders in the 
100's (we only had 4 100's last season) but most regions it is considerably 
less.  You've got a lot more people doing multidays every year, and look at 
the National Mileage standings.  I did 1,335 miles on one horse and only 
ranked 6th place.  It wasn't that long ago the National Mileage Champion 
could do 1,000 miles (minus the Trilby/Less trailer race).  Some might want 
you to believe that the trend is toward racing, but the sport seems to be 
attracting an awful lot of people who like to just ride, really ride......

>of using c-c is to go faster.  He suggests that the level we're training
>and competing at now is actually a walk in the park and the *real*
>competition hasn't even showed up yet...

Yes, and he also wants to change our motto and says that if you don't win 
every time you are a loser.  ;^)

>There's so much room for us to learn, but we can't learn from each other
>if we stifle discussion.  Maybe people used to not post that they are
>using carbos for fear of being flamed, but right now it seems the
>pendulum has swung the other way, it's making me cringe to post that I
>don't.

But I'm sure you feed your horse grain -sweet feed, right?  Same net result.

k (back to packing.......)

P.S.  junk food :)




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