Re: [RC] Fw: from PNER list with author's permission - Truman Prevatt
Bingo. Endurance riding is a "big tent." The 50 and 100 have people
with many different goals riding. Some ride for mileage. Some ride to
win. Some ride to pursue international goals. Some ride to chase
points. And some ride for the shear joy of riding. That is the beauty
and strength of endurance riding as defined by the AERC. There is room
for each and every one of these people in the tent.
Why should we exclude the riders that chose the 25 from our tent?
In a message dated 5/12/04 10:38:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
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Dot's last sentence: Bingo! Right on the nailhead. So AERC needs to decide
whether LD is to be a race or a venue for training, introduction, and
recovery. I can't see how it can be both. That is, if BC is to be awarded via the
top ten, then it becomes a race. LD was not originally set up to be a race,
but it that's what the majority wants, then that's probably what it is going to
become.
Barbara >>
Why can't it be all of the above? No different from a 50 or a 100? Not all
that ride endurance, race. Not all that ride LD, race. Why must LD to be one or
the other? The SE has no problem with this at all. Some of us want to
compete, some of us want to educate new riders, horses, etc. I won't go into all
that again...
-- We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters
ourselves,
and only
We
imitate our masters
only because we are not yet masters ourselves, and only
because
in doing so we
learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.
