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Re: [RC] Presidents Cup - press release - Barbara McCrary

Ah, yes....after reading Angie's post below, I realize that the "betting on
the outcome of the President's cup" has indeed reached others.  Wish I had
an idea how we can stop this in its tracks....NOW.

Barbara

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From: "Rides 2 Far" <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:24 PM
Subject: [RC] Presidents Cup - press release


at the site now with his
Tevis/Haggin Cup winning horse. He will be riding in the race along >
with a> few other American endurance riders and their horses.

Yeah, I notice they invited some of our best mountain horses (winner of
Tevis, OD, Vermont...)  Sort of like inviting a NASCAR driver to bring
his car that's set up for Darlington to race at Daytona...but then...Oh
yeah...we expect our championship races to be over rugged terrain.

Their whole news release just screams for a rebuttal. They so desperately
want Endurance to be an Olympic sport, but they set that bid back 10
years with the disaster in Spain being sooo much in the spotlight.  Great
press...two horses dead and a 16 year old rides a horse he'd never been
on to be proclaimed the "World Champion" So now how can we improve the
image by offering all comers a chance at a $50,000 pot?

I love the part in the release describing how dominant they are. My
daughter was in here last night making a game out of checking the names
of their winning horses, then finding them in an older issue ridden by
Meg Wade.

Perhaps they should word the release:

"Endurance racing is
beginning to capture the public's attention in the Middle East with so
many
riders from this region convincing top trainers from all over the world
that everyone and everything has a price"

I honestly don't have anything against them being in the sport. I hope
they love it as much as I do...but I wish they'd just chill out, quit
trying so hard.  Personally, I'm kinda waiting for them to give up on the
Olympics and stop buying more horses than they can ride...then the bottom
falls out of the "endurance horses for profit business" just like it did
the Arabian Show Horse business back in the 80's.

Brother!
Angie

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