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As I have commented many times before to the consternation of some in 
the FEI and many who like UAE money, this is a pile of horse 
manure....no, horse manure is much, much cleaner.  I've watched these 
guys up close and personal....and I speak Arabic, even though I don't 
look like I should.  Don't kid yourselves.  Love of a sport has nothing 
to do with 99% of what is going on.  Love of self-aggrandizement has a 
whole lot.  They could skip the race, the invitations, the parties, and 
all that.....just throw a ride for a bunch of cameras and give each 
other cups, for all the importance that the earlier steps have in the 
process.  The trainers and vets may care about the horses and 
endurance, but the principals??? Hah!  Been there and seen the 
tremendous bond between man and.....uh, who was that I was riding???  
No, make it man and Grand Cherokee.  And where the Arabic speaking 
comes in handy.....don't kid yourselves that they think the visitors 
are wonderful.  The foreign competitors are simply a necessary evil and 
they have no respect for anyone.  How can they when they actually 
publish this hoo-haaw and expect people to swallow it at face value?  
Anyone who believes these releases has watched too many trashy daytime 
TV shows.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.ratbusters.net
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with 
your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will 
always long to return." --Leonardo da Vinci

On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 02:24 Africa/Cairo, Rides 2 Far wrote:

>  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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