Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] different sports? They are if you decide that they are. ... - Barbara McCrary
It is my opinion that AERC riders
will probably never win against the UAE riders any more, not since they are
holding 100 mile flat track races. They obviously spend vast
amounts of money to get the world's most promising horses, hire trainers to
condition them and run them as fast as they can with the goal to WIN. We,
on the other hand, mostly do our own training and will not run hard and fast
enough to hurt our horses. I don't think it's surprising that we aren't
winning against them since Valerie beat everyone. I have a feeling that
when that happened, this male-dominated society determined never to let that
happen again. Winning gives bragging rights, national pride, and so forth.
Since American philosophy regarding
our horses' welfare cannot be compared to the philosophy of winning at all
costs, why do we keep subjecting ourselves to the humiliation of a foregone
conclusion that we cannot win under these circumstances. Our horses are
already stressed from air travel, different feed and "trail" conditions like
nothing we have here.
So why do we keep trying, over and
over? Just to prove we are good sports?
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] different
sports? They are if you decide that they are. ...
hhmmmm....perhaps if AERC spent less time accommodating FEI etc.... they
might actually attend to things like proper calendar scheduling, etc....just a
thought.
Considering the obnoxious nature of most equine organization s-
especially those that work with Arabians - frankly, AERC has historically been
stellar in their focus on what they SHOULD focus on. The past few years this
has not been consistently true. I am worried that what was once a top drawer
organization will ALLOW itself to succumb to whatever a fat wallet bunch
demand. Make no mistake - they DEMAND. So perhaps it is time that WE demand
that our organization concentrate on who and what WE are. What say you?
