Emma 1
12-01-2007, 10:28 PM
Just thinking aloud: only been teamchasing the few years so is it a relatively new phenomena that courses are getting more technical? Re the Badsworth - a good, galloping course with a new combination last year (the clock) that posed 3 hedges at right angles. Some teams managed it but not all were pretty.
OK, it asks for control and accuracy in the middle of a speed trial - but doesn't eventing challenge us in the same way, these days? Why replicate this?
Is teamchasing now a different ball game or am i still stuck in the past glory days when we were meant to go hell for leather and speed won out, not fancy manoeuvres?
Next you know, hunt races will include arrowheads and staggered combinations.
Can't they just let us gallop on and jump - isn't that what it was meant to be about?
OK, it asks for control and accuracy in the middle of a speed trial - but doesn't eventing challenge us in the same way, these days? Why replicate this?
Is teamchasing now a different ball game or am i still stuck in the past glory days when we were meant to go hell for leather and speed won out, not fancy manoeuvres?
Next you know, hunt races will include arrowheads and staggered combinations.
Can't they just let us gallop on and jump - isn't that what it was meant to be about?