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Re: [RC] beet pulp, turkeys, and common endurance misconceptions - heidiAs for commen endurance misconceptions, there is a lady who boards her 4arabs at this barn. She has raised halter arabs, and if you ask her she'll tell you she knows everything about arabs. And give you the history of her four (which by my standards, are nice horses, but spoiled, fat, and prone to bucking). She informed my Saturday, after looking at my Paso and telling me he was plain, then asking what I did with him (I said I was training for endurance), that her horses would NEVER do endurance. Maybe competitive trail because they actually use veterinarians and check them, but not endurance. Endurance riders just try to kill their horses by running as fast as they can, and she doens't understand why someone doesn't do something about it. What really burns me is that members of the show community actually encourage such myths to try to make showing look good--never mind that there is roughly 10 times the level of participation in endurance with purebred Arabs as there is in the Class A show ring. Maybe this lady should go to the show barns at 2 a.m. and check out the stalls with flooded floors, where the so-called "trainers" are administering electric shocks to the horses to get that "deer-in-the-headlights" look desired in the halter ring... Heidi ============================================================ You don't have to be a 100-mile rider or a multi-day rider to be an endurance rider, but if you want to experience the finest challenges our sport has to offer, you need to do both of those. ~ Joe Long ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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