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Re: [RC] vet holds - Joe LongOn Tue, 13 May 2003 08:43:07 -0400, "Larry Miller" <jcmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Its amazing how much time you can make up on the people that come zoominginto the gate/holds.I have done this for years. I even start last so I miss the craziness of the front runners. Just don't care to deal with that anymore. It is amazing the number of horses I gain on at the first vet check. And then one passes even more at the 2nd. And I have observed the same folks year after year let the craziness take over. It is not to say that one can't run in front and get great recoveries. If the homework of conditioning has been done, then one can run in front and get those pulses to drop stat. Seen it done and have done it myself. But I prefer to do it the other way. No jockeying for position and a lot safer. Besides, getting older and shrinking does put some saneness into one's brain. Jeanie Back in the old days there was a flat, perfect-footing ride in Mississippi, the Shockaloe. It was an honest 50 miles and First-to-Finish was typically close to three hours -- before the days of gate-into-holds. Well, the first year they switched to gates, a bunch went blasting off at the start just like always. I rode a more sane pace, and when I came into the first check at 12 miles there were more than a dozen horses in ahead of me. Some of them had been there a while. So I come trotting in, hop off, check his pulse, and call for time. I was first out. (How sweet it is.) -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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