Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] President's Cup - Barbara McCrary
Boy, do I ever agree with this. Is there some
reason that Americans HAVE to be a world power in endurance? We are
already a world power in food production and a few other categories, why do
we have to be a world power in everything? In the long run, I would rather
be on top of the heap in food production than in endurance riding, food being a
very important item in life.
I just thought for a moment about this comment - each to his
own I guess, but I considered that this doesn't really matter to me in the
general scheme of what we should be at the head of the class inetrnationally.
SO many of us actually want to do what we do, whatever it is, for the sheer
joy, pleasure and companionship, which by its nature, excludes activities
pursued for primarily money, power or prestige. That said, as many have said,
we are "just a bunch of cowboys", and I for one don't mind that label. Not
everything should be about money, power or winning. As one rather confused
peer of my husband's stated "winning solves all problems" - but my husband's
retort is that is solves SOME problems and creates a whole bunch of new
ones.
Yes America used to be a world power in endurance but you have to
have tangible results to make people believe this is still
so.
