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Joe Long wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:37:14 -0500, Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > The poll is there for everyone - so if you have an opinion, let 'er rip.
> >
> > Truman
> >    
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> I was surprised to see that "no" was 2:1 over "yes."  After all, the whole
> rationale for weight divisions is that the amount of weight a horse carries
> matters.  How then does it make any sense to count only part of the weight the
> horse carries in determing what division he is in?
>
> I think it would be interesting also to see how many people feel that we have
> too many weight divisions, or that we  shouldn't have them at all.
>
>  
It's early - it's only been up a few hours. . Formulate a question, sent 
it to me or Teri and we'll put it up.

As far as part of the weight, there are arguments both ways. If you 
allow tack, then you need to be very specific. At a ride I ran some 
years back, a woman showed up for BC with a saddle pad that was dripping 
wet. No it wasn't from sweat, she had soaked it to get a few pounds. She 
got all hacked off when I sent her away to bring back a different pad. 
Her water bottles - all four of them were full. This wasn't a ride 
across the desert with 50 miles between stops, there was not need for 
more than one or two water bottles.

After all, it's not the absolute weight that is used in the BC 
computation, it's the weight difference. If everyone weighted without 
tack, that difference would be basically maintained.

Truman

> > Diane Trefethen wrote:
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> > > Do you want non-members of SERA to "weigh" in on this?
> > >
> > > Teri wrote:
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> > >      
> > >
> > > >    *Do you think that the weight divisions (feather, light, middle and
> > > >    heavy) are best used by including the tack in the weigh in? *
> > > >
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