Truman, Why don't we put a survey (poll) on SERA's web
site and find out actually what is the age bracket of the LD
horses.
Teri
Hunter
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BC??
A lot of people come out and try endurance and
for whatever reason don't get hooked and don't show up after a season or two.
Can you believe it - not everyone loves endurance as a way of life:-). What I
am more interested in is the age distribution of the horses in LD's, since the
biggest grip I hear is running the legs of a 4 yo. I don't really think there
are that many 4 yo's out there (at least in the SE) getting their legs run off
in LD's. If you also look at the rides where you have 2-3 hour LD's you
normally have 3 - 4 hour 50's.
Truman
Stephanie E
Caldwell wrote:
Truman, Donna, etc...
I'm in the SE and trying to pick my first LD, I
think the horse is ready and we *finally* have at least one saddle that
fits. So, I started looking at rides here and ride results for the past 5
years, as I don't want to go to a reallyy big ride for my first. I noticed
that many of the same *people* were placing first in the LDs with 2 - 3 hour
times, but the horses changed from year to year. So, that got me interested
and I started looking at the horse and rider histories. It seemed like the
ones running the raelly fast LDs (and somewhat the fast 50's) kept horses a
year or two and then they're no other AERC records. My assumtion was they
were lame, that's just an uneducated guess.
As a newbie on a first time ride it scares me
to go out there and try to ride the 25, I don't have any idea my horse will
handle a ton of riders going a 10 - 13 MPH pace if we're doing a 5 - 8 mph
pace. I'm thinking about just trying a 50 in the spring, It really
intimidates me to go try to ride a ride like that. Seems like alot of the
really fast 25s had more pulls than the 50s and/or 100s that were run on the
same day, and it seems like the times in the last three years are faster
than they were in 90 - 93, figured I'd pick cooresponding years to compare.
Are there horses out there running fast LDs and
competing more than 1 or 2 years?
