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[RC] Conditioned VS NonConditioned - Distance_Ryder


Cindy,
The difference in opinion here is that I consider it inhumane to ask my horse to give so much physically if he were not conditioned properly ahead of time. 
 
How could I look into those eyes and put ask him to go 25 or 50 miles without conditioning him first? 
Shadrach      He trusts that we are a partnership.  I may be a green horn at endurance, though I am no green horn with horses.  Cindy, you go ahead & ask an unconditioned horse to go the distance, though I am going to study up and make sure that I feel my horse has been conditioned before I go.  Let's end it here and agree to disagree....I am not much for gambling & that is what this is coming down to~
Best regards to you~
Christina & Shadrach
Owner/Trainer
Eclypse Sport Horses
 
 

Cindy Collins <c_collins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
...Because they keep emailing me directly....Although apparently I don't have enough experience in endurance riding to comment on conditioning horses :), let me just say that as a matter of fact I did take myself to an ultra run in the BigHorn mountains with no conditioning and managed to finish the 50 K (on a bet).  I completed within the required time in second to last place.  However, I never, ever said that I would take a 20+ year old horse out of the pasture and do 25 miles.  Let me try breaking down my original statement one more time:  
" Any horse + who can do 10-15 miles + at a reasonable pace + can easily finish + a 25 mile ride + within 6 hours."  Cindy 


  It takes a lot of time and work to build muscle and stamina.  If anyone thinks they can take a horse right out of pasture and it ought to do a 25 mile without a problem needs to try and run a 10K without any training first!  Then let's talk conditioning. 

In the meantime it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to read the stats on AERC for hours ridden in competition and then compare those names with the names on this message board! D'Arcy


Cindy Collins






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