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RE: [RC] Reply to Risk Question & Mileage - Bob Morris

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I do believe that exposure equates to risk, therefore the shorter the distance the less risk. Conversely, you could state the longer the distance the more risk. That factor of risk/exposure is not a linear progression, more likely logarithmical. A fifty exposes more than double the risk to a horse than a twenty-five and likewise the one hundred mile distance even more. The conglomerate of distance, time, trail hazards, equine energy expenditure and the rest of the equation, all factor into the risk.
 
But then life with out risk would be extremely dull. In all reality there is no worthwhile value to such a discussion as many of the factors that enter into the risk are uncontrollable. Life exists and goes on, things will happen and life still goes on. Accept it and have fun with your equine companions
 
Bob
 
 

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID

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Subject: Re: [RC] Reply to Risk Question & Mileage

In a message dated 12/5/2005 10:29:31 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, dabneyesq@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
If by "risk" you mean "risk of harm to the horse," then I don't agree higher
mileage increases that.

Okay, Dabney, not to be Clinton-esque, but could you now define "harm"? (and how does that relate, in your opinion, to higher mileage increases, though I am fully aware of degradation in any bio-system resulting from repetitive movements).
 
Thanks,
 Frank
 

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