RE: NORCO BC FROM ONE THAT WAS CONSIDERED

["Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>]

I am not going to second guess whatever the vets were thinking. But to have an elevated CRI

*AFTER* a hold may have been the concern.  They were doing exit CRI's at this lunch stop and pulled some horses at the exit due to CRI parameters, even after vetting through fine coming in.  I also read somewhere that whether the horse's head was up or down can make a difference in a point.

 

The 60/60 CRI pull happened at a 100 mile ride with many hard miles to go - not at the finish line, so that may have been an influencing factor.  A lot of people were surprised by this and was a topic of conversation.  But one world-class rider backed up the vet by saying that a horse with a BPM of 60 after an hour hold would be metabolically suspect, even if there was no elevation of pulse during the CRI.

 

Like I said, I'm not going to second guess the vet and I have no opinion.  Just stating that it is not too surprising to me at all that a 15/16 CRI was not considered for BC, especially when the horse was not one of the top 10 to cross the finish line.

 

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: KimFue@aol.com [mailto:KimFue@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:15 AM
To: Kathy Mayeda
Subject: Re: NORCO BC FROM ONE THAT WAS CONSIDERED

I must disagree with you on this....A CRI is just ONE tool to evaluate a
horse and it would be highly unusual to disqualify a horse because it came
back one beat higher. As you yourself said - you RO'd you were not pulled for
metabolics.  I have seen more than one horse at BC judging come back with a
HR that is one beat or even two beats higher - they were NOT
disqualified...only received low marks in recovery.   Also reread Debbie's
post all other perameters on her horse were excellent.   That was my point
and I still would be interested to see her scores if they used a BC sheet.    
I attended this ride and because of the unusual weather conditions it does
not surprise me that many of the horses were hanging around 60.  Where
vetting was taking place there was NO shade.  I wish that they had done a
pulse check and CRI on a horse that did not do the ride so one could have a
baseline to go on.