Exactly. These people need to be careful because you never know whose watching. A few years back OK was voting on a bill to ban cock fighting, at the bottom of this bill was a clause attached that would also ban organizations where horses were saddled and ridden more then 4 hours at a stretch. We were all informed of this, man, were NATRC members up in arms over that:). The bill did not pass, of course. But it was interesting.
Becky
Hopefully, they realize how important it is to be beyond reproach on areas of humane treatment. I'll be interested to hear if there's any action or discussion of it. While most people are fair to their animals anyway, there are always people watching and that's the only thing that keeps some people decent. They need to be watched from within, better than being acted on by the ignorant on the outside who do not have the best interests of the sport in mind.