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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?
 
Barbara
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:57 AM
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?
 
Sandy Adams
Deep Sands Arabians
www.deepsands.com




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