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Uh Angie....I remember when we *did* push each other's horses off the trails.  We are much more civilized now.  This of course was back before  protesting was so common.  I have personally pushed three off the trail.  Two were for first place wins...I won.  But of course that was a LONG time ago and I am a much nicer person now. 

 

Jody....who no longer plays dirty, but does ride Hidalgo  !!!!!!

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> We won't even 
> > get in> to the many issues of some very non experienced riders giving
> it a 
> > try,> without seeking any information ahead of time, and think that Ol 
> > Dobbin can> go 50 miles a day easy.
>
> I'll be curious as to whether quite a few of
>  them do their research
> watching Hidalgo, Bite the Bullet, The Black Stallion Returns and
> "Virginia's Run". According to those movies, all long distance races
> involve lots of pushing each other off your horses at a dead gallop. I've
> watched these movies and it just fascinates me that everyone is
> constantly pushing each other off their horses. Just in case, they might
> ought to have drag riders to pick up the people who are on foot and some
> fast riders available to chase down the loose ones. >g< I wonder where we
> got the idea to always stop and help each other the way we do? That's not
> going to get us a feature movie any time soon so maybe we should stop
> that?
>
> Angie
>
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