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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Are the LD's feeding 50's? - Diane Trefethen


First, the statement about Home on the Range is untrue. The reported time for the winner of the LD Ride is less than one half the reported time for places 7-10 on the 50


Second, some of (maybe all, I don't know) the LD results reported in EN include hold time. The reported times for the 50s do NOT include hold time. To compare a 25 mile 3 hr ridetime that includes 30 minutes of hold to a 50 mile 5 hr ridetime that does not include holds and then say, "Oh look. The LDs aren't racing like the 50s" is disingenuous at best.

Without any personal experience, I would be willing to accept the claim that most LD riders are conservative riders. But the claim that the LD WINNERS take 1 1/2 hours longer to complete than the 50s do to reach their lunch stop? Nahh.... that's too much of a stretch especially since when I had a Top Ten horse, there were often several 25ers at the lunch stop before me.

So, look in EN at the LD results. Just about every EN has at least one instance of a finishing 25 mile LD rider with a reported time more than 5:45. Every one of those is a mistake, either because the time includes holds or because it doesn't and the rider should have been disqualified and not received mileage. And if the hold time on a 25 is 1/2 hr, then any finish over 5:30 is an error.

And as to Home on the Range, IF the reported times for that LD include a 20 minute hold, the top 6 LD riders all rode faster than the 7th place 50. If the hold was 30 minutes and included, they all rode faster than the 4th place 50.

M Paul latiolais wrote:
At the first ride of the season this year (Home on the Range) the ride times of ALL of the top ten 50's were less than twice that of the first 25-mile rider. They were all going faster...



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Replies
RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] Are the LD's feeding 50's?, David LeBlanc
Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Are the LD's feeding 50's?, M Paul latiolais