Ridecamp: Re: [RC] (RC) $$MONEY for NUTHIN'$$

>  Methinks at times that it is the PEOPLE who are the problem.

.........and that is the crux of the whole issue.  People with integrity
will treat their horses fairly whether there is money involved or not.
People without integrity have been known to kill their horses over a $2
trophy, regardless of the sport.......  (And believe me, a crippled QH that
goes to the canner's after being drugged up to compete through the last
roping of the year and can't walk anymore is just as dead as an endurance
horse ridden past his limits to an irretrievable metabolic crash.  And quite
frankly, I think the former happens in a higher percentage of competing
horses than does the latter...  Just my personal observation...  )

To what I've seen, the more time the rider spends with the horse in pursuit
of the sport--be it endurance, three-day eventing, whatever--the better the
care the rider takes of the horse, perhaps because he gets to know the horse
as an individual entity, perhaps because he has more time invested, maybe a
bit of both.  The quicker the sport is over, the more disposable the horse,
it seems....

Heidi


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