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Having often spent some long days, and day after day for some weeks,  I know 
a little about keeping on keeping on, as the saying goes.

Even if some of these riders are all gung ho at the start they will soon get 
over it.   It's one thing to blast out for 25 miles on the first horse, and 
then the next one, and the next.  After the first 75 miles, which will 
probably take, at the best, a long day under the likely conditions, the 
bloom will be off.  Reality will take over and  just getting over the ground 
will become a good thing.  Even if the horses are fresh at each 25 mile 
point the riders won't be very long.
It's one thing to go 100 miles, or 50, on a fit horse you know well, quite 
another to work your way on a strange horse of unknown training and 
conditioning.   Whole nother ball game.

I wish them well, horses and riders both.  Actually, I'm betting on the 
horses to be able to take care of themselves, they are survivors in their 
own element.

Dot




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonni" <txtrigger@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:55 AM
Subject: [RC] The warning to Mongol Riders - k s swigart


> Kat posted: >>>Personally, I don't see this as an event where all the 
> participants, for the
> glory of being able to say they came in first (there is no prize money) 
> are
> going to gallop unfit ponies across unsuitable terrain and kill the horses 
> in
> the process.? <<<
>
> Maybe not all, but we have heard of riders who go to their first AERC ride 
> who over ride their horses because the competition aspect kicks in, and 
> they do not think clearly about the safety and welfare of their OWN horse. 
> Shoot, even experienced riders can still do that, when caught in the 
> competition aspect.  At least we have vets at the rides who have a clue 
> how to handle these situations for the most part, and treat the horses, 
> even with the riders have "mistreated" them. (although dang it, the vets 
> job is not to have to fix our flipping mistakes)
>
> Jonni
>
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