Re: RC: Best condition

[Lynne Glazer <lynne@glazer.org>]

Interesting idea, Lif.

We're trying to highlight the BC winner at the Norco Riverdance ride 
next week by giving the nicest award for that, rather than to the 
first place horse/rider team.

The BC winner will get a Tra-Lor Tie, Nancy and Gary James' product 
which allows a horse to be safely and comfortably tied to the trailer 
via a swing arm securely mounted to the side of the trailer.

The first place winner gets a full-bale embroidered rolling bale bag.  Not bad.

(And I'll take this opportunity to thank Nancy and Gary for their 
donation of the Tra-Lor Tie to the ride, in exchange for a donation 
to the trails fund of my choice. :-)  )

The other thing we've done is to use Terry Woolley Howe's practice of 
awarding BC to 5 places on the LD ride by using vet scores, although 
we don't do the assessment the same way she does.

Lynne
Norco Riverdance Ride (PS) 9/4/99



At 2:05 PM -0600 8/25/99, Lif Strand wrote:
>Paul & I have always thought that Best Condition awards are not highly
>enough rated.  In our competitive culture, that's understandable.
>Someone who gets over the finish line first does seem more like a
>"winner" than someone who comes in later on (but with a horse in better
>shape).
>
>I really think that BC should get more glory - but how?  Seems to me
>that there's another thing you can count on in our culture - that is,
>where the money is, glory will follow.  For some time now I've chewed on
>the idea of somehow pouring money into a BC fund, to finance awards for
>BC winners, certainly at the national level, hopefully at the regional
>level, and maybe even broader scoped than that.  It would be one thing
>that could be done to really egg on competition but not at the horse's
>expense!  Horses won't die or suffer for this award!  It would improve
>our sport in a way that other National Championships can't.
>
>I'm not sure how it would work, and I haven't won the lottery yet to
>finance it, but I keep thinking about it.  Lif
>
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