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Re: A dark day for Arabians



Good Morning All,

As a quarter horse owner and I love my horse to death, I have to say I
emphasize with you dark day for Arabians. We recently had a reining show
here and as I did not feel my horse was ready, a good friend of mine who
is a member of ridecamp here, who does the endurance thing, graciously
lent my daughter her Arab to go in the Junior classes. I have to tell you
as I strongly believe and have always instilled the morals of having fun
and doing your best to my daughter, well that day I had to go against a
lot of my morals. I know this is not new news to the show ring, which in
turn certainly does not make it right, I was pretty disgusted with the
results of her classes. She went in three classes and yes she blew one
class, but she and Moses were absolutely stars in the other two, it was a
hands down win, you just could not of done any better than they did, they
were both awesome. Do I need to say anymore, I think she got one third.
Some of the other riders as well were absolutely shocked, it as I said was
a hand downs win, simply because they did the best job of the bunch. As a
QH person it saddens me to death, not just because it was my daughter, but
I have spent many years installing show ring morals and as a QH owner I
was cheering on as hard as I could for any Arab that went in a class, with
the hopes of finding some fairness out there, but it did not happen. You
know it happens all the time too in the quarter circuits, the politics
that are involved, who you know, who your trainer is, who the judge is and
so on and so on. As unfair as it is for all whether it is for example an
Arab in an open Western Pleasure class, or a independent QH person who
works real hard, who may not have the trainers or the higher end of all
this horsey glamor world, what I have learnt over the years and what works
for me is that I have to set my own personal goals and what may put me in
the winners circle certainly does not have to be that first place ribbon.
It took me a lot of years to come to this comfort zone of setting my own
goals, it works for me and until or if ever we can find a way to reach
some fairness in the horse world, I will go with this program. Just wanted
to let you dark arab people know that your not alone, the circumstances
may be a bit different, but I do not think the feelings are a whole lot
the differnt. Thanks again Cathy and Moses for letting my daughter
have the
pleasure and the fun of taking Mo to this show. Although I was somewhat
disturbed about this reining show, I do feel Moses and my daughter were
stars. As a quarter horse owner I hope you appreciate hearing I really do
feel where you are coming from. Hope this enlightens someones day.

Thank You 
Trish 


On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Linnea Skoglund wrote:

> 
> Kat wrote:
> 
> AND, if you are going to show in an "open" show, then you should be 
> judged against the same standard as all the other horses, not expect 
> the judge to make exceptions for your horse because it happens to be 
> of another breed.
> 
> 
> WHAT!!!  You mean your arab or my paso should have the same low head 
> set and shuffling gait as the qtr horse if we are all riding in an 
> open western pleasure class?  I don't think so!!!  I believe arabs 
> (or morgans or any other breed) have their own standards for western 
> pleasure, etc. and any judge worth his or her salt should know the 
> difference.
> 
> Linnea & Pesadilla - how won't shuffle for anyone!
> 
> ***************************************************
> Linnea G. Skoglund, Ph.D.
> Dept. Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
> Colorado State University
> Ft. Collins, CO 80523
> phone: 970-491-6950 
> fax:   970-491-3862
> skoglund@lamar.colostate.edu
> ***************************************************
> 
> 



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