Subject: Re: [RC] Howard and "FOUR
successful ride seasons with the SAME horse"
I would like to ask everyone how many of you have won a
BC? It is not easy and I venture to speculate that very few people have
won or will ever win a BC. It is an accomplishment that many riders strive for
but never make it.
Winning a BC takes hard work, it takes smart riding
and it many times takes backing off - giving up going for a win - in order to
accomplish it. And folks I don't know of anyone that has won a BC by
accident.
Beat on Howard for the right reasons - because he is a
screwball, he is a pain in the butt, he thinks at 30 mph but talks at 600 mph,
but there is one thing you cannot take away from him. He has won the highest
prize in endurance riding - the BC; something very few riders will ever be
able to calim.
Truman (who has his on a walking horse to boot in a
very fast ride that would make Howard look like he was goofing off on the
trail :-) ).
C. Eyler wrote:
The comments you refer to were not made in
response to Howard's ride report. They were a reaction to
some posts praising Howard as a now-accomplished endurance
rider. They were skeptical that Howard's success at this
ride (which was nice after so many pulls) somehow proved that he
now knows what he's doing (which is not what he claimed).
They were sort of bringing the cheerleaders down to earth.
Too bad that Howard was so tickled with all the
praise that he too failed to make this distinction.
Cindy
Oh....
yet another unwritten "rule" as to what it takes to become a "REAL"
endurance rider. From the tone of the emails below, I would
assume that being unbearably condescending is also absolutely
essential.
Fortunately this sort of superior attitude is the
exception, rather than the rule, on rc.
We should all applaud
everyone's successes! There is NO need to rain on ANYONE'S
parade!
