Re: Re: Time for a new motto --- Never!!

["Carolyn Loedeman" <tawasentha@ohiohills.com>]

Wow do I ever agree with you!  There is nothing like the feeling of
finishing a 50 or 100 miles, where ever you finish- you have won against the
trail for that day and if you came in before anyone else-GREAT!!!If not-
"TO FINISH IS TO WIN"
Carolyn Loedeman (early 80's Ellis)
3000 AERC miles
1500 CTR miles
----- Original Message -----
From: GESA BRINKS <gesaeqfx@pe.net>
To: <Tivers@aol.com>
Cc: Ride camp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 9:42 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Time for a new motto --- Never!!


> "To finish is to win" is a GOOD  motto.  It provides everyone the
> opportunity to arrive at a "personal best".  It saves a lot of horses from
> the "evils" of racing.  The "win at all costs", riders give endurance
riding
> a bad name.  The sport is endurance riding not endurance racing.  Only a
> small percentage of the riders out there are actually racers.  I see a lot
> of 3,000 plus mileage horses out there and even a few with 10,000 plus
> miles.  I am in awe of these horses and the riders that got them there.  I
> bet very few of them "raced" all of their miles.  To refer to riders that
go
> to complete as "Losers" is awfully arrogant.  Any respect that I may have
> had for your opinion in the past or in the future is now defunct.
> gesa n clovis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tivers@aol.com <Tivers@aol.com>
> To: fasterhorses@gilanet.com <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>;
> ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Date: Saturday, December 18, 1999 12:51 AM
> Subject: RC: Time for a new motto
>
>
> >I think the "To finish is to win" motto is a little limp. Especially
when,
> in
> >any genuine sport, to win is to win. Therefore, I think we should have a
> >contest for the best new motto. For example, for half this group, the
real
> >motto is To Win Is To Lose, or Winning Is For Losers. For another
> significant
> >portion, the motto is, To Show up Is To Win, or To Throw Up Is To Win, or
> To
> >Tie Up Is To Win, or To Want To Finish Is To Win.
> >
> >I'm sure we can all come up with something better than To Finish Is To
Win.
> >
> >ti
> >
> >
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