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Re: [RC] Letters to the World -- showing - Lif StrandAt 12:06 PM 6/18/2004, Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote:Secondly, most trailriders are cowboy wannabes. John Wayne did not ride an Arabian. I don't know how to change these perceptions. In this area of the USA the terrain is so rugged and so dry that almost all the ranchers want to have some Arabian blood in their ranch horses. They don't want to ride purebred Arabians because they're too light to rope and drag a big steer or bull, but they sure do appreciate not having to come in at lunchtime to change horses if they're going to ride fence or go hunting through the arroyos for cows. While "what you see is what you get" isn't always a safe bet when it comes to Arabians or any breed of horse, "beauty is as beauty does" is a good motto to go by. ________________________________
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Quemado NM USA============================================================ I still prefer what it is that BH100, Tevis, The Duck's Soup of Endurance, etc. has to offer...but, to see a horse canter over sand for those distances...Good Lord, it humbles me. ~ Frank Solano ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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