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Re: [RC] the sport? - Joe LongOn Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:53:06 -0400, Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Don't get me wrong here but the same argument can be made for cock fighting or dog fighting. It's not the sport it's the people that are participating in the sport. One needs to take great care that the sport has the safe guards that protect the participants. This is especially true when the participants are do not have a choice - the horses in an endurance ride for example. What does it say about the sport when the lesser die trying? The sport most certainity has a responsibility to the horses involved otherwise if it doesn't live up to that responsibility is it any different from other sports where animals die - that are now illegal in most of the US? Not the same thing, Truman. The objective in cockfighting and dog fighting is for one combatant to injure or kill the other. That is not an objective in endurance riding. Also, only a tiny percentage of horses participating in endurance rides die, quite different from dog fights. Every horse death in endurance riding is considered to be a tragedy and an anomaly, something we have been working to prevent for as long as the AERC has been around. Although it may sound like it from some of the rhetoric, this isn't an issue that was just discovered in the past year or two, or that has been neglected. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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