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For some reason I'm receiving tons of email from your web site.  I cannot 
read over 700 emails from just a few days.  Please check into this.  Thanks. 
Liane Wilkinson

> From: rides2far@xxxxxxxx
> To: Pvan19@xxxxxxx
> CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   lowered age limit
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:30:55 -0400
>
>  BUT  > unfortunately
> > there are a lot of breeders or professional trainers / riders out
> > there who > cannot or will not share this view, for various reasons but
>
> > frequently  simply > through the pressure owners or jockeys put on them
> >  > in France for ex the (money) stakes have risen enormously over the
> > past  > years - selling one young flash-in-the-pan could safeguard an
> entire
> >  breeding > program for several years
>
> I remember reading once that a horse's
>
> "raw speed" is highest from age 2-4
> Strength is greatest from 7-11
> Endurance is greatest from 11-14
>
> Right now...with the current "championship" format has one race
> determining the championship. Nevermind long term. My question is, are
> the 6 and 7 year olds that survive the system truly capable of going
> faster *in that one race they peak for*  than the older horses who will
> be able to perform again and again?  I do not like the current emphasis
> on raw speed, but so long as the courses for championships reward it, and
> the system to qualify requires it, the sport will be slanted towards
> those who benefit from it. I noticed that the courses that *did* try to
> claim some difficulty invariably achieved it with the addition of SAND.
> Duh.
>
> Until our representatives quit going along with this direction and
> campaign diligently for at least a VARIETY of championship type courses,
> I think the International "champions" will result more and more from a
> very flat racing type system where LOTS of young horses are pushed hard
> and the ones that survive the system long enough to race, like our Derby
> winners, will get in tremendous performances, then break down. An all
> year long "series" like Nascar has for a points championship can help,
> but for a World Championship it's not very feasable. I don't know what
> the answer is but to me it's not too satisfying to see a comparison of
> Apples and Oranges...horses that will last through a couple of races
> competing against a group of horses that will last through long,
> competitive careers. They're just not the same.
>
> Angie
>
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