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RE: [RC] re: ROC 1987-musings - Jim Holland

Amen?.particularly with regard to horse welfare.? I don?t think the horses
would consider it the ?Good Old Days?.? There has been very little progress
in that area.? For example, AERC still doesn?t penalize a rider for ?riding
their horse to death?.? JMHO.

Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic



Richard T. "Jim" Holland
Three Creeks Farm
175 Hells Hollow Drive
Blue Ridge, Ga 30513
(706) 258-2830
www.threecreeksarabians.com
Callsign KI4BEN
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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Collins
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:47 PM
To: Ridecamp
Subject: [RC] re: ROC 1987-musings

"... I would love to hear more how this sport has progressed and the
positive changes that have taken place."

Christina McCarthy


Ah, Christina...I think you missed the whole point of the old timers'
musings. While it's all up to your point of view, lots of us don't think
much of the "progress" and "positive changes." We were missing the days when
riders spent much less time whining and complaining and demanding more rules
and more awards for less effort and much less risk. A time when riders
thought 50 miles was a training distance for 100s. Glad you enjoy our tales,
though. They get better every year. Wish you could have ridden along with
Smokey Killen and Bandit on the early XPs...we had to stop every 5 miles to
take a sip out of his bottle. The bottle was stuffed in a nasty old sock! If
we were along a passable road(I use this term very loosely), his crew drove
ahead with the motorhome and handed out the bottle every 5 miles. If it was
too rough for the crew, the bottle stayed with Smokey :) Don't think there
wasn't some "science" to this operation, though. Smokey had this routine of
walking a certain number of mins., trotting a certain number of mins., then
cantering a certain number of mins. When you got back to the walk, it was
time for the bottle!

Cindy Collins
c_collins@xxxxxxx







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