Re: Guest Posting

["Cora" <bandc@teknett.com>]

very well said
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From: <guest@endurance.net>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:17 AM
Subject: RC: Guest Posting


> Marci Cunningham mcunningham@calcot.com
> I'm sorry if some ridecampers take offence at guests posting
> to ridecamp.  You might be interested to know that some of us
> are subscribed and have paid our $10 but have decided to 
> unsubscribe to not be inundated with e-mails either at work or
> home.  Some guests, such as Kat Swigart, have written thought
> provoking posts as opposed to some ridecamp subscribers who take
> every opportunity to criticize.  Bob Morris has time and time
> again written that it is each rider's responsibility to take 
> care of his horse while on an endurance ride.  It is easy to
> be an arm chair quarterback and judge how a rider sits on a
> horse or better yet, the look in the horses eye.  Until you
> have been there and done that, I think judgement should be 
> reserved.  My best endurance horses don't dance around on the
> end of a lead rope chomping at the bit to hit the trail.  Both
> Fire Mt Torch and FM Moonshyne+/ are very laid back and
> business-like in their approach to endurance riding.  They stand
> relaxed at the start of a ride and look the same way at the end
> of a ride.  Very seldom do they score A's on attitude at a vet
> check.  Endurance riding is a sport of individuals meeting their
> own goals.  It doesn't need more regulating in the form of 
> qualifying rides, or vets making the decision to prevent sound
> horses from starting a ride based on their opinion of the
> condition of the horse.  
> 
> I finished Tevis in 1993 on Moonshyne and she looked great.  We
> only had 30 minutes to spare and it was her first 100 mile ride
> completion.  It also brought her AERC mileage to 1000 miles as a
> 7 year old.  Now, 2,000 miles later she is a fat and happy 
> broodmare.  
> 
> Let's not be so critical and mean spirited to those who don't sit
> a horse exactly like the picture books say one should or who's
> horse doesn't fit the picture we hold in our own mind's eye.
> 
> Happy Trails,
> Marci Cunningham
> AERC #1455
> 7,015 AERC miles 
> 
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