Re: RC: The Welfare of Our Endurance Horses

[DreamWeaver <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>]

>horse on the ragged edge of exhaustion.  My question is why do some of these
>abusive people get a following??  How can people actually admire someone
>whose horse crosses the finish line in bad shape and do it time and time
>again, often with a different horse every year??  There's a big difference
>between using your horse and using up your horse.


Hi Barb:

You made some good points.  My husband, being a non-horse person who crews 
and attends several rides a year has always told me that he thinks AERC 
needs to have a system where people are rewarded not just for miles 
completed, but for miles attempted.  He gets to see more (being in camp and 
at checks) than us riders do sometimes and he doesn't like seeing riders 
over-ride their horses or the ones that either get pulled or else top 
ten.  He thinks that if you start a ride and complete you get credit (your 
points), and if you don't complete you get minus points.  So that if 
somebody started 8 rides and got pulled out of four of them (50% 
completion) they would not end up with more points than somebody that 
started and completed 10 rides (100% completion) but rode more 
conservatively.




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