Re: RC: Re: VT 100 & over riding

[jlong@mti.net (Joe Long)]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:14:23 -0400, Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>
wrote:

>You don't get it!!!!  These people are just like you and me, but they get caught
>up in their goal to finish or to win or whatever....at the later parts of a
>ride, PARTICULARLY a 100, they are NOT usually (applies to many, not all) in a
>frame of mind to make sound judgments.
>
>If YOU have not been there, you DON'T KNOW!!!
>
>A steward WOULD help.  MANY people are reluctant to complain to ride management,
>afraid to make waves, but a STEWARD's JOB is to hear about rule infractions,
>investigate and DO SOMETHING!!!!

Rule infractions ... but no one has claimed that there were rule infractions
here.

So if someone complains to a steward that a rider is overriding his horse, and
the horse was approved by the vets to go on, exactly what is it you would have a
steward do?  Overrule the vets?  Pull the rider on the trail between checks?
Tar and feather the rider?  What?

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