In reality I think we would be better served to look inward instead of
worrying what they want to do in Mongolia - where we really have no
say. While whining, crying, gnashing of teeth and pointing a accusatory
finger at someplace else in the work might make us fell better or
maybe even superior - we've got plenty of our own problems related to
our horses that we might have a chance of solving. Better our passion
be directed to problems we can solve and if we do solve them will help
our horses - like how to prevent metabolic crashes and deaths at AERC
rides.
Truman
sherman wrote:
Having
had a 17 yr old Mongolian foreign exchange student live with us and
ride with me, I know what he told me about their 25 mile races. Horses
do die, even with their young and very tiny riders on them, sometimes
as young as 6 yrs old. The horses are not allowed food and water the
day before the race because of fear it will slow them down and make
them want to stop to pee, so obviously they don't provide and water on
the ride either. Generally speaking, they have little modern or
scientific knowledge of the horses' nutritional and metabolic needs and
are only following their tradition. While it is shameful for them when
one of their horses die, rather than find out why (can't anyway, no
vets) they will usually cut off the head and bury it separately, so no
one can prove it was their race horse. If it happens on the race
course, everyone knows, they can't hide that, but they really don't
understand that their practices are killing the horses, they just think
they were not in good enough condition. The horses die at the race, but
they die at home after the race too.
Yes,
many horses die in equestrian events in countries other than Mongolia,
but from what I was told by a horse lover from Mongolia, this will be a
disaster for their little horses. JMHO
Kathy
-- “I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in
pseudoscience
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science
than in
pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any
meaning,
science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one,
of
being true.” Carl Sagan
