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I've only done one one star event (on two horses), but I had the best 
ride of my horses entire career on the 35 fence cross country that 
followed roads and tracks and steeplechase. It changed the way that I 
warm up for x-c at a horse trial and my horses enjoyed steeplechase so 
much that I even raced them over fences a few times. OTOH in the 
non-sanctioned training division at that event, a horse died on roads 
and tracks - stepped wrong in the soft shoulder of a sand road and broke 
it's leg.   Libby

k s swigart wrote:
> The second being, that the first three phases of day two served as an
> excellent warm up for the extreme challenge of the cross country course,
> and there simply isn't enough room at a venue that doesn't have the
> "road and tracks" for the full format to properly warm up your horse and
> get it into the right frame of mind and body.
>
>
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