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Title: Re: [RC]   [MB]   Endurance News cover photos//Kids

To be fair, the full text of the msg I PM’d to MerryBen was:

“Yeah, in my world, where I ride, kids would rather do the dressage shows, eventing, huntr/jumper, barrel racing, pole bending, trail classes—activities and competitions that require an hour’s practice in an arena a few times/week and are over in a few minutes. (And these things ain’t cheap, either.) Most horsey kids by nature don’t have the attention span, perseverance, and, well...endurance to do endurance. - bk”

Notice I say, most kids in my experience. Not the the more unusual kids that get mentored by the unusual MerryBen.

bk


On 8/12/06 6:34 PM, "Merryben@xxxxxxx" <Merryben@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> In a message dated 8/12/2006 6:15:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sensei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > Most horsey kids by nature don’t have the attention span,  perseverance, and, well...endurance to do endurance. 
> I don't agree at all.  I took a 5 year old and her pony on a 50 miler.  She was riding bareback around the camp about an hour after we finished.
>  
> The juniors I have started ranged in age from 5 to 13 and they not only took care of their horses but helped me too.  Two of them started by doing an LD ride but all the rest started with 50's so they don't know much about LD but they all were focused on being "endurance riders" and treated conditioning as a job to do.....no slacking off with other plans.  Riding came first....................mb



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Beverley Kane, MD
Horsensei Equine-Assisted Learning & Therapy
Woodside, CA
http://www.horsensei.com