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Re: [RC] New Poll up/What to Do? - Heidi Smith

>But, when a horse's performance reveals that finite point where their ability to adapt, to tolerate, to withstand is reached...it is reached.
>   Recognizing the factors that define that point, especially during endurance endeavors, can be difficult for a lot of folks.
 
Bingo.  And any tools which help us to recognize that point prior to reaching it are good tools.
 
>    I appreciate Matthew's juxtaposition of ENDURANCE QUALITY and ENDURANCE CAPACITY.
 
I like that differentiation as well.
 
>    Do we need to continue trying to define that point?....in my estimation, I think so.
>    Are there small, but perhaps significant, procedural methods we could employ at rides that might help?.....in my estimation, I think so.
 
Yep.
 
>    I still believe that the SYSTEM is not, and never will be regardless of method, able to keep horses from suffering, from dying.  
>    As competitive people, but still compassionate people, we could help minimize the cost...and the ugliness it reveals about our species.
 
Compassion and realism, all rolled into one.  Personally, I think we will get much further in diminishing the problem with compassionate reality than we will with all the emoting in the world.
 
Heidi

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