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There are a lot of riders that come to FL and do just fine. A lot of 
people from the NE come down here in the winter for rides. Hell a lot of 
them have bought land and live down here for the winter. It's more of a 
matter of respecting it and riding accordingly than having to do 
extensive training in it.

If the base is there the base is there and unless you push too hard they 
should be able to handle it. Maybe the suspensor you attribute to LR was 
something that was building over time - rather than something caused by 
LR. One of the things I've noticed is from what I've observed there is 
no more problems with suspensory ( maybe fewer) probelms down here than 
anywhere else and all we have is sand.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I *wish* I could train for a Florida ride. :-P I have one
> option...there's a dressage arena 5 miles from here that has a heavy sand
> surface. She charges outsiders $10 per day per horse to use it. I guess
> that's cheaper than going all the way to Florida to train. Wonder if
> she'd be mad if I rode round and round for 5 hrs. to get my moneys
> worth.>g< I think the problem with going down to FLA for a week to train
> is that I want to stress the horse, then give him recovery time to
> rebuild the damage before I stress him  again. I wouldn't want to ride in
> it several days straight. 


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“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an 
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” Harry S. 
Truman



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