Ridecamp: Re: [RC] National IAHA Championship on TV

> When I first heard that the Ft Howes ride was done in under nine hours...I
> was simply amazed...not appalled by any means.  I just assumed that these
> were riders and horses who could go that fast for that distance...until I
> saw the video...and saw the horses and riders in action during part of the
> last ten miles and at the finish. I guess everyone has a different
> definition of "over ridden."  To me if the horse looks exhausted and
> miserable, the horse was over ridden.  Your horse obviously wasn't over
> ridden if he still had that much in him the last miles and into the
> finish...

Judging from the times on the last leg, the horses couldn't have been
dragging much!  That said, as I already mentioned, some looked tired at the
finish, but not out of the ordinary.  And while my personal pick among the
Top Ten if I had to choose a horse to escape from a Sioux attack in the
night would have been the 5th (I think he was 5th) place horse, Red in first
place would have done nicely, too.  He was free-moving and willing at his
trot-outs, both for his completion and again for the BC judging.  As an
endurance rider, I would have been happy to have had anyone in the world
watching his post-ride vetting.

Heidi




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