In a message dated 7/10/02 7:34:05 PM Mountain Daylight Time, steph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
It wasn't
even until recently that AERC started listing pulls at all in the printed
results.
Why list the pulls and reasons for them at all? Truly, I don't know of what value they are anyway...
...except for fingerpointers, naysayers, etc. to latch onto and engage their "endurance gossip mechanisms"....
Sure, some will say, "well, that ride must be tough, look at the pulls for (fill in the blank)...but that could never be a true reflection of how tough (or easy) a ride is when one factors in the variance of Vet scrutiny, riders ways-of-going, and so forth.
AERC could say to whatever body finds itself scrutinizing how hard or how fairly we treat our equine partners, "well, we have reviewed "x" amount of rides and have discovered that ........(whatever)....
One could say, well it (completion/pull ratio) dictates how much a horse (stallion breeding) is worthy, but, hey, we fool ourselves into saying that money isn't an issue in endurance when it is when completion/pull ratios are noted and used to place "value" on horses or breeding stallions.
Gee, how would we select which horses would represent us at PanAm, WEC, etc, well, most of us know the better riders and horses anyway, as should a selection committee.
Nah, get rid of listing pulls and the so-called reasons......the truth is most pulls are due to Operator Error anyway, regardless of the error.
OE would suffice in most instances (certainly in mine.)
In an organization which prides itself in "To Finish Is To Win", I think this makes sense.....unless, of course, we change our motto to "To Not Get Pulled Is To Win".
Frank
AERC 8422
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