Re: RC: Horse Dying at Endurance Ride

[Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>]

Jennifer...

I don't have a problem with that for a 100.....very few novices
here....but I can't agree for a 50....even if it is multi-day.  A vet
check every 25 miles would slow ME down as you say...but maybe not for a
"newbie" 50 miler.  Vet doesn't see the horse enough to compensate for
the inexperience of the rider.

Jim and Sun of Dimanche

Jennifer Layman wrote:
> 
> 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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