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Re: [RC] [RC] Welfare Committee Data - DESERTRYDR1Off base again Howard. #1 Any Mentor program has to be voluntary. #2 I rode with someone who had about 1500 miles when I started, I thought she knew everything I would need to know. Fact is, the number of miles has nothing to do with someone's ability to read their horse, and especially with their ability to read another rider and that rider's horse, which is what a mentor needs to be able to do, if they are to effectively help. #3 I doubt if I had 3000 miles would I have the ability to tell a newbie any more than "Do lots of LSD miles with this horse, in conditioning and in competition. Think of your horse first at all times" And I doubt if those words would do any good. DON'T mandate things that need to spring up as a natural part of the whole endurance/LD/ridecamp (Not this one) experience. jeri ============================================================ Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action... ~ DH Lawrence ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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