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Wow Truman! This is beautiful! I love your thinking here!

PattyP

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From: Truman Prevatt

Date: 01/05/07 18:59:51

To: Cindy Collins

Cc: Jim Holland; Ridecamp

Subject: Re: [RC] re: ROC 1987-musings

The times you see on the OD or the Tevis is actually irrelevant. If the

ride is a flat fast ride- it's a flat fast ride. It doesn't mean it is

inferior to any other ride. The great horses can win on any trail under

any conditions. Rio did it, Cash did it and so did Heraldic when he won

Goethe in 2006 in FL.

As far as taking responsibility away from the rides - no one is

advocating that to be done. What do you suggest we do with the riders

that won't take the responsibility for their horse's welfare - stand

back and let them kill their horse? We are either a organization that is

responsible for our events and their impact on our equine partners or we

are not. If we are not we don't deserve to exist IMO.

Truman

Cindy Collins wrote:

> You didn't see those kinds of times at the ROC or Tevis or Virginia

> City or Old Dominion. Now, we want to say that the greatest endurance

> horses in the world are horses that can survive one or two 8 hour 100

> milers. Just a different way of looking at progress. There are still

> truly great horses being produced in our sport with Heraldic being a

> prime example. John Crandell was a champion riding under the old rules

> and is a champion under the newer rules. I see the great riders

> remaining great and the abusive riders remaining abusive.

> Cindy Collins

?He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a

monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also

into you.? Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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