Re: KIDS RIDE FREE...

[Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

Hear, hear and somehow you strike me like the kind of person who would cough it
up, too!!  :)  I won't go that far.  I don't know that I agree about it being free
though i appreciate the discount and so does my daughter...she babysits and saves
her money to help pay for her entry fee which I don't think can be an all bad
thing... I don't deny her the opportunity (as she works hard conditioning her mare
right along with me) when she doesn't have the money but she helps out with camp
and helps pit crew and do whatever she can do to help out.  This is a family thing
for us... it's good for families to do things together like this.  What a feeling
it is!!  Too soon they'll be gone, too.   I wish more kids had the opportunity to
find out what the "high" of riding is like... thanks for a good letter, Frank!
I'll have to delete this one, though so the kid don't see it and get any ideas!
:)  Just joking!
Maggie

DVeritas@aol.com wrote:

>   This has gotten beyond the point of ridiculous.
>    If anyone UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN wants to ride whatever distance....hell,
> it should BE FREE!  My God, if a child wants to spend time riding a horse over
> a trail, who in their right mind wants to make them pay to do it.  IT SHOULD
> BE FREE!!!
>     The arguments I am reading are simply simple-minded. Who cares who's
> single, or who's married and has a family.
>      I would rather see a child on a horse than on a drug.
>      Anyone under SIXTEEN years of age who can't afford to enter a ride, E-
> Mail me and I'll pay your entry.  (And anyone who knows me, knows this offer
> isn't made 'cause I have money burning a hole in my pockets....what could be
> more important than our children.)
>
>      Frank Solano
>      Fort Lupton, Colorado