baxtersmom wrote:
GasMenagerie wrote:

Oooo... if only I was 20 years younger! I wish I had gotten into it in my youth!
We have a gal in our area who didn't start riding until her late forties and started eventing in her fifties!
Also, a guy in his 70's who runs Training level with his 20+ y/o Morgan!

It's really fantastic how much you learn about riding training for all the disciplines... even if you never compete.


I saw a picture of him! Was it in the Chronicle a while ago?

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt