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Tony has ponted out a very important fact, we have some house cleaning 
to do before we throw stones at others.

Truman

Steph Teeter wrote:

> From: Tony Benedetti [mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
>
> rider why he was riding so fast if his horse was tired. The rider said that
> the horse wanted to go on. I told the rider that he had reins for a reason.
> The rider pushed on only to be pulled at the next vet check when the horse
> did not recover in 30 minutes. This rider had no understanding of endurance
> riding nor empathy for his horse. We need to deal with these issues, we
> need to be more critical of poor horsemanship, and there needs to be
> penalties so that people will educate themselves. It has been said many
> times that it is sad that people will ride their horse too hard for a
> stupid t-shirt. What is sadder, is that as a sport we have allowed this to
> occur.
>
>
> Tony Benedetti
>
>  




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