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[Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>]

 >>At > our first ride, we had one disqualification for a bleeding mouth.

I'm curious. How bad? I've seen a horse with slight bleeding in the
corner of his mouth, and there were matching wounds on the rider's hands.
This was a very good horse in the North American Championships. The horse
was determined to go all out and the rider was determined not to let him.
If these were slight wounds and not something really bad, would the rider
have been given the option to continue in say...a hackamore? Lots of
people tell the story of when Lawton Johnston's horse developed a saddle
sore and he simply took the girth off and finished the ride without one.
So...what sort of wound would get a rider pulled?  

Angie 
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