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Re: [RC] the sport - Joe Long

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:37:47 -0400, Truman Prevatt
<tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm all for sanctioning the blatant repeat offenders but we aren't doing 
that either and I don't see it happening. On the other hand, I suspect 
when the data comes out it will turn out that excpet for a very few 
exceptions there won't be blatant repeat offenders, that deaths and 
serious treatments hit more or less at "random." It's not new riders 
that are the cause, it's not front runners that are the cause, etc. It 
happens across the board to riders in the front, back and middle with 
100 miles or 10,000 miles.

Yes, indeed.

That illustrates part of the reason we will never, ever completely
eliminate equine fatalities from any distance riding sport. The best
we can hope to do is minimize them -- and at that, IMO the AERC has
been highly successful.

It's also sobering to remember that it can happen to any of us, it
could happen on our very next ride ... or even our very next
conditioning ride.  A well-known and well-respected Southeast rider
lost a great endurance horse when it shattered a leg on a routine
conditioning ride.

-- 

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxx
http://www.rnbw.com


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