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RE: [RC] Endurance News cover photos - Jo Ann KnightYes, provide the juniours and parents an incentive to keep coming out to the rides. Family camp outs, nature, wholesome peer groups for both parents and teens, and team work yada yada. Today's LD juniors may be tomorrows Tevis endurance rider. Helping the climb that scale try to educate everyone about the spirit of endurance riding and being an endurance rider vs LD, CTR and so on. They all have their place and to me sound like good stepping stones for the truely competitive spirit to head to the top. Thought one needent start endurance at NATRC, LD or CTR. We need to do something for youth before we lose them. Maybe the pay off will be that one of those youth's you encouraged will even start an LD and endurance group at college! Get it into that arena and who knows, the Olympics! In fact I think endurance riding should be an Olympic sport, it sure takes team work, it takes blood, sweat and tears. If horses can be allowed to risk breaking their necks on jumps, they should be allowed to do an Olympic endurance event with the appropriate vet checks and so on! I hope the true meaning of being an endurance rider, and an endurance horse will live on somehow and teaching people about it and pulling them into it, is one way to make sure that happens. Jo Ann -------Original Message------- ,... the jr thing is sooo important to these kids. For one thing, a study (but I don't know who or where) once showed that girls into horses delayed the "onset" of boy-it is by approx 2 yrs. And when jrs are busy riding, they can't be busy getting into other trouble. Jannelle Wilde & Adam Falk 584 Romie Howard Rd. Yoncalla OR 97499 541-849-2460 866-241-1531 (toll-free) www.mfarm.org & www.wildeivey.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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