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It is all about education.  I remember that at first hearing about endurance I though WHOA....can a horse do that?  Then I met some of you folks and volunteered at a ride and decided it was one of the most horse-centered sports I ever heard of.

 

Look at the perceived abuse in the TB racing industry. It has been a big debate on RC whether starting horses so young is abusive.  The horses are obviously well cared for other wise, they can live like kings in barns nicer than my house.  Unfortunately, the difference between TB racing and endurance riding is that endurance doesn't generate the revenue to hire the legal defense that TB racing has.  So not only do people have strange political agendas, endurance (as it is today) doesn't have the financing to make it attractive to the politicians LOL!!!!

Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would suspect that the vast majority of people in the USA are non-riders who would think just that.  And I'm finding that the majority with an agenda, however ridiculous or impractical, have the power to force politicians to make rules that control the rest of us.  It's really scary....

 

Barbara

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From: sherman

To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:46 AM

Subject: [RC] In the publics eye? - Skyla Stewart

One of the biggest problems is that much of the public (including some other horse owners) think it?s abuse to make a horse trot down the trail and sweat, and that if the horses are lean & fit as opposed to fat & sassy, that they?re being starved.

 

Kathy

 

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