Ridecamp: [RC] [Guest] young riders

Alyx Luck dancingarab87@xxxxxxxxxxx

young riders should continue to be allowed in endurance, i am now 14 and 
riding competativally as an adult - i started endurance at age 8 and never 
suffered any complications. i have been riding since age 2 and training 
rides with my mother by age 4. i rode my first of many hundreds at age 9 
and never rode a limited distance, however i have hundreds of hours in 
training rides logged in and many of them 25 miles or more. if the aerc or 
began to limit the parents choice of allowing their child to participate in 
enduranceit would quickly become a very contaverial issue. i am not saying 
that i support it when i see a junior riding without a helmet, riding 
boots, or on a horse they are not able to control. however i believe that 
should be the parent responsibility.


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