Re: RC: RE: Why don't riders like to be judged? -- Let's get thefacts strai...

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/24/99 8:52:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, benamil@juno.com 
writes:

<< I no longer volunteer to help on these rides because of what I have seen
 and the attitudes of many doing
 them.   Why did I help in the first place?  Because it was a way to teach
 my green horse to go slow
 at the back of a crowd of other horses.  >>

Once I drag rode a NATRC ride and all my horse learned from this process was 
to quit on every hill I asked him to climb and turn sideways to the slope.  I 
was following the last riders who were SOOOOO slow.  On every hill they 
stopped and turned sideways. Two weeks later, I took this horse on Tevis and 
he pulled that trick on every hill, beginning with the first one out of Squaw 
Valley.  When he did this on Elephant's Trunk, I bailed off (there was little 
space on the narrow trail and I was nervous about the drop-off), and the 
minute I was on the ground, he took off up the mountain at a trot.  I just 
had time to grab his tail as he pushed on by me and pulled me up the trail.  
I was livid, as there appeared to be no excuse for this behavior, except that 
he was taking advantage of me.  Finally, when I reached Forest Hill at 9:00 
or so at night, I was so exhausted from battling this horse, that I pulled 
out of the race and spent the next several hours sleeping on the edge of the 
road with the horse tied to a tree.  I could have cheerfully strangled him!

Barbara McCrary


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