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Some horses do better going out fast and holding on. Some do better by 
going out slow and moving up. Some make their move in the middle. Three 
horses may be able to do the same time but do it much differently. A lot 
depends on how it was trained and on the rider. I'd say when you require 
all riders to ride together you are accentuating the weaknesses of the 
horses instead of using their strengths.

No offence to anyone, but this is big time high profile sports. At this 
level you either get it done or you don't. You either have a successful 
program or you don't and at this level the only measure of success is 
the number of metals you win. In the last three WEC's the US has gotten 
it's clock cleaned. It may be time to take a good hard look at what 
others are doing right that the US is doing wrong.

As the big sign on the enterance of a Tony Dungy coached team states - 
"there are no excauses." It's time to a) figure out what was done wrong 
from the initial selection through the execution of the race and b) fix 
it. If this isn't done - the results won't change next time.

Truman

Joe Long wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 06:50:58 -0800, "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I'm sure they had their reasons for doing this, but it seems to me to be a plan
> guaranteed to lower the performance of the team.  All members of the team are
> forced to ride at the pace of the slowest member.  Surely riders of the caliber
> we expect to have on our team are skilled enough to pace their own horse?
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“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social 
progress but they regard the things government does for others as 
socialism.” Earl Warren



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