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It always seemed to me that definition of the phrase 'endurance' had to do
with the horse, and the commitment to conditioning and fitness, not the
rider.  If virtually any halfway decent horse can be pulled out of pasture
and gotten down the trail "X" number of miles without conditioning, that's
not endurance regardless of the suffering of the rider.  Not to me, anyway.

If the distance requires careful and consistent conditioning, thoughtful
management and a fair amount of horsemanship to get the horse across the
finish line in Fit To Continue condition...then that's endurance.  I still
don't much care what the rider put up with.  Flip side, if your horse
staggers across the line and is done at the end of the first season, that's
NOT endurance.  In either case, the trip odometer reading is incidental.

JMO, YMMV.

Susan G, DVM



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