Throwback Thursday Presented by the Endowment Trust: "The Sport Needs More Confidence Building Cross-Country Courses"
In the April 1991 issue of USCTA News (now Eventing USA), then-President Denny Emerson wrote about a good cross-country riding experience he had at the Walthour-Moss Foundation Horse Trials, which later gave way to the spring Southern Pines Horse Trials. He praises the course designer, Ireland's John Dillon, and warns that course builders must be "partners in developing horses and riders by presenting them with fair, inviting, and well constructed obstacles."
"Confidence is built upon success, not failure. Especially at the lower levels, but really all through American eventing, it is critical that we get back to the realization that cross-country riding is based upon running and jumping, not racing, checking, yanking, and turning."
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