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Sounds good to me. There will be a poll on the SERA website, www.seraonline.org
within the next few days to look at the age distributions of horses in LD.
We invite people from all regions to participate in this poll. Maybe we can
determine if we are running the legs off our 4 year olds and if not maybe
we won't have to pollute ridecamp with two weeks of LD bashing every six
months. John would probably be happy about that:-).

Truman

Teri Hunter wrote:

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

 

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:40 PM
To: Stephanie E Caldwell
Cc: Wintersdwbob1@xxxxxxx; LimitedDistance@xxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] LD 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?

 

Steph