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Tracey,

If we "Yanks" had won a metal of any kind since 1998 - you wouldn't hear 
the gnashing of teeth to "change the format."

Bottom line some smart people have figured out how to run 100 mile races 
faster than we can. They have set the bar to a point that we can't even 
finish enough riders to qualify a team if we want to be in the metals. 
They are not doing any thing wrong - they seem to be doing a lot right. 
After all the WEC is an event to crown the fastest 100 mile horse in the 
world. It's a race- there will be a lot of pulls. If a rider is there to 
win and he won't why push the horse - why not just pull.

Some of this I suspect is sour grapes on our part. We are just not 
getting it done - other countries are. It pretty much comes down to that 
one simple fact.

As long as they supply a safe venue for the horses and the riders 
realize they are racing on the edge and be willing to pull at any signs 
of problems, the vets are vetting based on the fact they are riding on 
the edge and adequate treatment is offered, I have little problems with 
the way it is run.

A lot of AERC members don't see endurance riding as a flat out race. But 
that's an entirely different subject. The WEC is what it is - we "Yanks" 
are not doing well other countries are. If other countries are doing 
well - doesn't sound to me like a format problem.

Truman

Tracey Lomax wrote:
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> */[Reply]  You’re quite right about that.  I guess I just see it 
> differently because I live in a third world country and I know how 
> hard it is, and how much is sacrificed, to get even ONE rider to the 
> games.  And I know how much it would mean to us as a country, and to 
> our sport, if that rider came home with a medal./*
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> */Maybe you Yanks are just so spoiled for medals that it no longer 
> matters /**/J/**//*
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> */Tracey/*
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