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That would not have even worked in this case.  There are typically 
upwards of 200 people doing the LD on this ride.  One could just 
imagine the timing chaos that would be!  And besides, a riderless horse 
barreling up that draw would have still caught a lot of people with no 
place to go.

Admittedly, 200 starters is a scary idea, but hey, that's why they call 
it endurance.  It teaches the LD'ers that they need to learn to control 
their horses.  That's where I learned it, at the Prineville ride.

-Paul
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 09:12  AM, <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What is a "controlled" start for an Endurance Ride. In the CTR group I
> > belong to (MOTDRA) we start out separately 30 to 60 minutes apart out
> > time is tracked from when we go out. Shannon
>
> I suspect you mean seconds...  ;-)
>
> But to answer your question, a controlled start is one where there is a
> pace horse or a pace vehicle, and the riders may not pass this horse or
> vehicle until it turns off and lets them by.  It usually goes out at a
> pace equivalent to a rather average working trot, and it may continue 
> for
> as little as a hundred yards or so to get riders past specific footing 
> or
> obstacles, or it may go on for a mile or two.
>
> Heidi
>
>
>
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