Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Hahira, Part Five

> I say heck with it all as far as pulling him back, and when we get 
> to that open field, I let him go. > 

> but, it is America who is setting the pace today.> 

Deja vu all over again.  I remember several years ago when you first
tried endurance on Dance Line it was just like this. I recall people
trying to talk to you about pacing and you got irritable and acted as if
they simply didn't want the competition.  You ran him with front runners
"and were going to slow down later"... then he crashed.  Your remorse was
pretty hard to wade through. You still wallow in it  regularly to show us
how sincere you were.

This summer you had the nerve to post that you wished someone had warned
you.  I almost choked. I can see why you were such a Bill Clinton fan.
The ability to tell a flat lie, that everyone knows is a lie with such
unblinking sincerity...so sincere that some people actually doubt what
they know for a fact, is rare. 

Now you've started all over again telling how you're letting this one
go..."the super horse that never gets tired"  Sylvia warned you.  She
didn't call you any names, she simply warned you that an Arab can be
killed as easily as a Saddlebred.  Changing breeds doesn't excuse you
from responsibility for your mount.  You went off on her.  So, all I'm
asking is that whether it's that the horse gets hurt (I'm sure it'll be
his fault) or whether you hurt someone else on the trail, that you do NOT
say you weren't warned.

You may actually get away with running this horse like this, and
unfortunately you'll talk about it so much others will be encouraged to
do the same.  As a person who once had a very promising prospect to ride
and let him go when I had his heart in shape but not his tendons, I can
only say, take care of the good ones...you may not get another and
everybody didn't just think up LSD for the fun of it.  

By the way, I can tell you what keeps the vet lines down.  Coming into
the vet check in the top 5 keeps them down.  You can't accuse me of being
a mamby pamby who is afraid of speed. My junior and I finished top 5 at
Hahira on a fast day last year, and her horse won BC (and rode with me
the *whole* time!)  That's the fastest course in the SE and  you don't
run that fast without taking chances.  Our horses had around 5000 miles
of competition between them and it scared me to death to push the
envelope that much.  If ignorance is bliss you should never have a
problem with depression.

Angie

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