ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Morgans at ROC/endurance

Re: Morgans at ROC/endurance

Lynn Kinsky (lkinsky@silcom.com)
Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:52:48 -0800

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>Hi,
>
>I appreciate Linda Flemmer's tribute to the Morgan who finished ROC. I'm
>sure she didn't intend this, but I thought her description might have
>sounded a little discouraging to Morgan owners considering endurance.
>Suzanne Mounts
>
>
>>I want to give a lot of credit to the little black Morgan and it's rider
>>at the ROC.
>>
>>The horse was having problems recovering because of the heat - they
>>almost didn't make it through 3 vet checks because they could not
>>recover to the rather stringent parameters of 60. The rider & a great
>>crew persevered to bring the horse through in last place but healthy &
>>with a GREAT final trot out.

I suggest that the Morgan's biggest problem wasn't its breed, but rather
its color: BLACK. I've done CTR with several of my Peruvians, and the
greys and chestnuts manage recoveries comparable to the arabians, but my
black gelding always had a struggle to meet his recoveries. And I've
noticed that there aren't a whole lot of very dark arabians competing, The
Black Stallion notwithstanding . . .

-- Lynn K. (Santa Ynez, CA)
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky

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