LD: try now or wait?

[KarenBrat1@aol.com]

I have a 7-yr-old Arab gelding who was just started under saddle a year ago.  
He did about 400 miles last summer/fall of trail riding and was in very hard 
muscular condition (felt like I was patting a brick wall :-)  I've only been 
riding him about a month this year, 3-4 times a week, 5-10 miles a ride.  
Sometimes flat, sometimes mountain.

Question:  I plan to go to KKS Windsong on Memorial weekend (in two weeks) to 
volunteer Saturday.  Should I try doing the 25 LD on Sunday if I take the 
maximum time?  Or would I be better off waiting til the next nearby ride at 
the end of summer (Lost Wheelbarrow Mine), when he'll have had a lot more 
conditioning?  I'm a complete newbie and have never been to an AERC ride 
before, just done a lot of fun trail riding.

Thanks!

Karen "Ready" Bratcher and Bender the Little Big Horse


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