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Dabney Finch wrote:

> Angie wrote:
>  
> Risk increases with lack of experience, or with having a horse
> that isn't properly conditioned mentally or physically, or even isn't of
> the proper physical make-up for a ride.
> Dabney responds:
>  
> I have to agree.  I don't think the "risk to horses" increases with 
> distance--at least when it comes to rides/races.
>  
> But, horse conditioning, rider expertise--and luck--matter to 
> /completion/ exponentially, each mile the horse goes after, I think, 
> 35 or so miles.
>  

This is going to be my last post on the subject since it seems to be one 
where emotion over rides logic - which seems to be the norm these days. 
Are you saying that a horse going 6 mph for 25 miles is at the same risk 
as as the same horse on the same day on the same trails with the same 
rider going 100 mile?

That doesn't make much sense and it is contradictory to the pull rate 
statistics.

Truman
--

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




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