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Re: [RC] Training Facilities/Our Type of Endurance - DVeritas>They seem to be committed to winning at this sport
You know, I find it interesting how it is okay for some folks to spend money, but NOT okay for others to spend money as it relates to endurance. I know there are riders, right here in this country who don't have the money to actually "campaign" their fine horses around the country, whether it is to chase number of miles, or wins, or BC's or whatever. But, I don't see them posting in this forum about how some of our own riders seem to have all the money they need to buy really fine horses, purchase small apartment buildings that are towed by enormous trucks to ride after ride, while they find the baling wire to secure the rear gate as well as they can to make it to one ride this month, within three hundred miles of home, (gas prices being what they are and in light of their appearance being necessary at work the following Monday morning), and pray God, nothing happens to the truck that might require a mechanic to be paid to fix it. William Faulkner once said, in relating how to come up with a champion horse, four words, "The best of everything." Short of that, I like to believe we all do the best we can with what we have. And, I'll tell you what, if I had more, I'd do more...but, alas, I don't...so, I do the best I can... ...which, (when juxtaposed along side the subject Facilities), might not be as fancy or effective, but, darn it, I walk the earth as free as a man can be (who's in debt, that is) and I am free to drive to any ride in this country when and if I can afford to. So, if there are people in this world who want to throw money, time, high-priced talent and care at their endurance horses....have at it, I can't change that and I can't, ever, for me, justify that "type" of endurance racing. I like our kind. Simple. Now, if we could level OUR playing field.....THAT would be something :^). ---Frank
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