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It seems to me that Cindy is right on the mark here. For any horse that 
can do do 15 miles at a reasonable pace ( and lets put a number on 
reasonable pace of say 8 mph ) - 6 hour 25 would be a piece of cake. The 
15 miles is 60% of the 25 miles. I know a lot of people that do 100's 
and I don't know anyone that conditioned 60 miles.

I sure don't see anyone saying you can take a pasture potato out of the 
field and do a 25 - but a horse that can do 15 miles "at a reasonable 
pace" is not a pasture potato.

Truman

Distance_Ryder wrote:
> 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 
> <http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL673/3013403/11473555/191331197.jpg> 
> 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 
> <http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL673/3013403/11473555/166193833.jpg>
> 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
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>     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
>     c_collins@xxxxxxx <mailto:c_collins@xxxxxxx>
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> Happy Fall Y'all!!!
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