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I would hate to see us get into a CTR-bashing thread.  I helped out at a couple of CTRs a long time ago (late 90s) and decided it wasn't for me (didn't like the judging of everything and the restrictions).  By and large, most of the people were nice.  Did see some bad apples and horse abuse - one gal riding with a huge bloody fist-sized girth gall on her horse, that when I pointed it out (I was riding drag), she glared at me and kept going.  Some rudeness...not much.  But I've seen some rudeness (again, not much) at endurance rides too, and there are a handful of people who do not put their horses first in this sport either.  It's nice that both sports are available for us to choose from.  We shouldn't blacklist an entire sport due to the actions of certain ugly people.

 

Dawn in East Texas

 

On 11/30/06, Tim &#38 Carla Brady <timbrady@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I have pretty much given up on CTR also.  I've been doing AERC LD's this year and have really enjoyed them and not found one rude person so far.  The Central Region group is a wonderful group of people to know and ride with.  I did a couple LD rides in the 90's also.  Due to some of the ugliness in that CTR group, and some extreme ugliness directed towards my husband, I've found I'm not inclined to participate in a sport who's members would stoop this low.  It's a long story related to my husband, but several individuals started a smear campagin against him (in June 2005) and his previous cutting, reining, show career, and one individual went as far as posting this "smear" under someone else's identity on the Reg. 4 discussion list, and this same person started calling different breed associations trying to verify his record because she wanted  to say he'd "lied" about his record.  Little did they know that he has relationships at these organizations and they either sent e-mails or phoned to let us know someone was snooping around in his business, and also who it was. Yes, it was brutal and uncalled for--a stroke of character assassination at it's worst!  And, yes I am still bitter knowing that these individuals in this group is capable of this sort of thing.  Sorry Reg. 4 folks if this upsets you, but it's true, this happened and at the time no one stepped forward to stop these ugly posts from going on to that list or stop the person behind them.

 

Carla Brady

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