Re: RC: Re: Heavyweight vs. Lightweights

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Yes Louise,
Remember what a difference it was for Racer! I put 2500 endurance miles on 
him (including 13 100's) tacking at 155-165. When Monte started riding him 
tacking around 240 it was like having to condition him all over again. It 
was a whole season before he could finish a ride in relatively the same 
condition, on the same trails at the same speed.

Nancy Mitts


>From: "LOUISE D BURTON" <FIREDANCEFARMS@prodigy.net>
>To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: RC:  Re: Heavyweight vs. Lightweights
>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:23:54 -0600
>
>We have a heavyweight, featherweight, and juniors in our family, and from
>our experience in selling horses to several heavyweights, I can definitely
>attest that if you ride as a heavyweight, you are riding with an entire
>barage of problems that  FW don't even think about.  The number one thing 
>is
>saddle fit.  A FW can get by with almost any saddle, not so with a HW.  The
>other thing is feet.  HW riders have to be much more careful about sore
>feet.   This is to say nothing of condition of the horse.  I will never
>forget riding a horse I had hardly ever been on that was just flying 
>through
>a ride...couldn't figure out why he was so good...then I remembered this 
>was
>the horse my husband rode!  And my daughter, when she just started...tacked
>in at 90 pounds....rode our beloved gelding 1000 miles at age 18 and 19!  
>He
>always looked as if no one at all was riding him!
>And it does show up on the vet score.  Amber won BC over her 240 pound
>sponsor on a ride one time!
>Bruce believes a HW  can't make it through Tevis  unless you get off and 
>run
>with the horse...and I think the gravel road on the NC was particularly 
>hard
>on horses with the HW riders.
>  Now if I could just get Bruce to condition all of my horses.....
>Happy Trails,
>Louise
>Louise Burton
>Firedance Farms Endurance Arabians
>Oklahoma
>http://pages.prodigy.net/firedancefarms
>
>
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