Re: RC: Horse Dying at Endurance Ride

[Jennifer Layman <jenn_layman@yahoo.com>]

This is common on multi day rides (due to legistics?)... it USUALLY
slows riders down.  It is not ideal, but not unheard of.  I did a 100
where there was only a vet check every 25 miles.  Slowed me down!

J.    
--- Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net> wrote:
> Linda...
> 
> Are you serious?  Only ONE vet check between start and finish? In
> the
> desert in June? I don't believe it! This MIGHT be acceptable at
> say, a
> National Championship Ride, where all the riders are knowledgeable.
>  But
> a standard ride? With maybe beginning 50 milers? NO WAY! Why would
> a
> Ride Manager do this? Maybe there is something I don't know here
> (lacking facts and I wasn't there) but if this is true, this is
> definitely a case of poor judgement!  The poor vet didn't have a
> chance
> of preventing this!
> 
> Jim and Sun of Dimanche
> 
> Linda Hedgpeth wrote:
> 
> > 
> > One of the points that has been brought up concerning this ride
> and,
> > perhaps, others like it is this:  On the 50 miler, the vet check
> is at
> > the halfway point ONLY.  There is NO OTHER VET CHECK until you
> get
> > back to camp at the end of the ride.  This person suspected her
> horse
> > was ill and elected NOT to vet in at the end.  The vets told her
> to
> > slow down at the halfway vet check.  She didn't and came in on a
> sick
> > horse.
> > 
> >  *Perhaps* if there had been two vet checks on the 50 mile course
> > instead of only one, they could have DQ'd her at the second one. 
> That
> > way, if the mare was questionable at the first and was still
> getting
> > the dog snot ridden out of her, there should have been some
> clearer
> > signs at the second . . . . and maybe she would be alive right
> now.
> > IMHO, the vet checks should be a little closer together than 25
> > miles - especially on desert rides in June.
> > 
> >  Just a thought.
> > 
> >  Linda Hedgpeth
> > Janesville, CA
> > lth@thegrid.net
> > 
> >
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