Cash Prizes

Jim Mitchell (navion@lsbsdi2.lightspeed.net)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:32:42 -0800

While I think the ideas of distributing the cash prizes differently is one I would
favor, I don't feel I should force my views on how cash prizes should be distributed on
others. If a sponsor and a managing group choose to offer a ride I feel thankful there
is another ride to go to. I might try to suggest positively and somewhat privately other
ways to distribute the money but I feel the posts turned into attacks when people
started writing about never using the product, faxing to the sponsor etc. You can all
read the posts at the archives and most were good but a few started to show some anger.
I got the same feeling that Steph did from the barrage of posts and I guess I'm asking
for tolerance and restraint before responding.
There was also a comment about those partcipating in this list and those who don't.
With over 600 people on the list I try to limit my posts so as not to overload the list.
I would like to suggest that everyone think of being in a lecture hall with 600 of your
peers in endurance riding. Some very new and some very esteemed. I don't think we would
all speak so quickly if we had to look at all the faces and realize how far our words
will travel. Internet has certainly revolutionized communication but without some of the
social safeguards we are use to.
Another thought on the dire predictions some have made about the horses at a cash
race. Although I was not in this sport when it started, I'll bet you could find old
correspondence with the same dire predictions about any endurance ride. I think I have
read about this somewhere. And yes we do have horses in trouble now and we will in cash
races too.

I'll go back to being mostly quiet.
Merry Christmas
Jim Mitchell
Bakersfield, Ca.