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Re: [RC] Endurance - FEI, UAE - rides2far



. Looking at 
the> examples set by the UAE (horses really can go very very very fast)

and> igoring the fact that for every single fast horse, there are 100 
horses that> tried but failed.

There's a book called "Fast as White Lightning" about the history of
NASCAR and how it rose to it's modern form. In the early days the
competition between the different major auto makers was ruthless. They
wanted to be IN FRONT...if they wrecked and could say they were in front
when it happened that was better than finishing 3rd. Then they came up
with the idea of a year long points race. Made it important to FINISH
consistantly. Speed was still important, but a non-finish hurt them a lot
in the points. There was a certain series of races listed where they all
competed...and the one with the most points at the end was the champion.
For the same reason I think the year end awards for AERC are a far better
barometer as to a horse's quality than the one day championship race.

I don't know what it was called, but I know there was a world wide points
championship when I was reading Endurance World but it was based on the
RIDER. Again, that promotes using up horses. It was obviously beneficial
to the folks with 100 horses in their barns and I can see where they were
vigorously oppose the idea of a points FOR THE HORSE system, but to me
that's where it's at. If they want to have a "rider of the year" award
for rider points, OK, but no way the top "Endurance Award" should go to a
jockey flying around the world hopping horses others train. If one of
these horses can be the best for an entire year's rides, that's the
minimum I think should be required to be World Champion.... Would they do
sub 7 hr. 100's if they knew the same horse *had* to be at the next ride
too? *Maybe* not. Requires a bit of strategy on their part not to cross
that line and count on being able to bring a replacement in from the
bench. Personally, I think it should be *horse and rider team* and that
horse's points should only count with that rider but that part isn't *as*
essential.

As to the idea of knocking out the qualification period. For the type of
race they're running right now, I can see that if winning was your plan,
it would help. It's going to take running lots of young horses hard to
feed that monstor.

Angie

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