Re: RC: RE: Horse Illustrated article

[Roger Rittenhouse <roger@vmaxept.com>]

Hello Merryben,
  FINALLY- someone else on the BOD who tells it like I have been
  saying ..
  ITS A RACE FOLKS ..
  
  I WOULD RACE IF I had a FAST racing horse .. thus I only ride .. as
  fast as it is safe to let my horse go..

  Call it a RIDE if you want   ..
  But I WILL RACE you for 20th place .. horse willing.

  Unless we change the rules  - it will be RACING - I have seen MUCH
  of that at the major events.
  If 'YOU'  want to just ride - as I do many times .. then thats OK
  too .. but the sport at the top and at the level Pamela sees all the
  time is RACING. That is what she wrote about.

  The PanAm was a RACE. I watched it all day .. A Spectator sport as a
  pit crew. They RACED into and out of the Vet Checks.

  Until we get rid of FIRST PLACE  it is still a RACE .. I help to
  support the FIRST to FINISH by coming in later  - much later --

  Roger R

  
Saturday, September 15, 2001, 11:48:30 AM, you wrote:

Mac> In a message dated 9/14/2001 10:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Mac> DESERTRYDR1@aol.com writes:


>> .  Some of it wasn't too bad, but the constant 
>> referral  to Endurance RACING about drove me nuts!   Why don't some of you 
>> who really know our sport get to write these stories?  


Mac> I know Pamela and I know about the sport with 8,000 miles, only 80 of them 
Mac> LD, and I usually call it racing.  No matter what we say, it is a race.  We 
Mac> reward first place and the fastest ten.  mb
>> 
>> 





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