From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 2:31:58 PM UTC-4, Jim Hetley wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:46:00 PM UTC-4, Will in New Haven wrote:   
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   > > I gave up when he said that women would be inferior horseback riders.   
   There is no doubt that women can ride about as well as men. The idea of women   
   as horse archers works until the opponents start wearing decent armor. A child   
   can draw a bow that    
   would kill or disable an unarmored man.    
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   > Women ride in "Three day equestrian trials" in direct competition with men,   
   and win.   
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   When I had a girlfriend who did barrel-racing in rodeo it was an all-women   
   event and I bet it still is. Of _course_ there were always cowboys who   
   challenged champion barrel-racers to race for stakes. It wasn't really fair.   
   Only one of the male    
   challengers had an actual barrel-racing trained horse but a good cutting horse   
   can learn it fast. And none of them had the years of experience that the girls   
   did. Still, with anything from a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand   
   dollars at stake, not    
   one guy ever won.    
      
   --    
   Will in New Haven   
      
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