Possibly I can help give insight on where some of the front runners
(Florida rides) for the past 2 years in LD's went to
:
Laura
Stedman moved up to 50's. She was riding 2 different horses and an
excellent horse person. Her horses are always in top notch
condition.
Keith
Bass had to have surgery this past year on his shoulder or something like
that. This put HIM out of commission not his horses. He has two
friends Ron Heater and Ross Redding that ride with him and since Keith was not
participating they did not either because they usually caught a ride with Keith
who lives in Southern Florida. They all ride a string of different
horses.
There
are a few in the service I believe Michael Lewis is one, and were unable to
compete due to duties they had to perform outside of
endurance.
Laurie
Pearson - Moved up to 50's Rides 2 different horses.
Wade
Pearson - Still rides 25's
Richard Wilder - no longer competing because of personal
reasons. He rode someone else's horse and the horse is now competing
again.
Ed
Kilpatrick - Moved up to 50's - Excellent endurance rider - rides several
different horses.
Johnathan Shortland - reassigned to Las Vegas for a job for one
year. Not sure if it was Johnathan or Sheila
Sheila
Shortland - See Johnathan Shortland.
Karen
Stauffer - Still rides 25's and is a wonderful person. Takes excellent
care of her mounts. She gets into a beat and her horse just goes
enjoying every step of the way.
Howard
Bramhall - Doing 50's - Rides multiple horses.
Jennifer Bramhall - Doing 50's
I hope
this clarifies things. You cannot just go off of stats. You have to
know the people and what has changed in their lives.
Hope I
didn't leave anyone out.
Teri
Hunter
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BC??
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?
Before we get all whipped out of shape over this - does
anyone know how many what the precentage of horses in LD are really 4 years
old? From what I see in the SE region its probably pretty small in which
case this whole "speed and 4 yo" is nothing but a red herring hot
button.
If
AERC ride managers use the BC form as it is now, they will have to use
SPEED and WEIGHT as a factor. 4 year olds will be raced,
horses will be hurt more often, and riders will go like hell. Now if
you wish to submit to the committee that met at the convention and try
again to resolve the issue of LD BC have at it. BUT time
cannot be factor. You must devise an overall vet parameter score
that will take into consideration the horses age, experience and
miles. LD are training rides. ASK anyone with 10,000+
miles. And they deserve the right to be heard. If you have not
had a horse on an IV line it is difficult to fathom the guilt.
Whether you went fast or not. So to reiterate devise a BC form that
uses all the vet parameters from all the vet checks, score them and
eliminate time from the equation and maybe I will whistle a new
tune.
Donna
