Of course, it would also help if we didn't keep
sending some of our best horses to the Emirates. Of course,
that's easy for me to say since no one is offering very large sums of
money for a horse of mine.
Cindy
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It just may
be the riders from the US were unwilling to push their horses to the point
necessary to win because as you say they wanted them to be around for
awhile and didn't want to accept the risk. This is noble - but on the
other hand will not produce a metal.
So the dilima whose horns we AERC
members find ourselves between is the following: Do we support selecting
and sending a team that embodies the best of the AERC - that when all is
said and done it is the welfare of the horse that is the most important -
that probably doesn't have much a chance because they won't push envelope
to the breaking point or do we support sending a team that will ride on
the edge, ride to win with the potential result of sending one season
wonders?
