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    [RC] Your Ride History/Pulls - Cheryl & Randy Winter


        I have to agree with Frank.  The heroes (and heroines) of this sport are
    the ones without the egos involved in the horse or rider pull rate, namely
    our horses.
        The stigma of being pulled is something that has always bothered me.
    For whatever reason, a pull  from a ride is something that shows we (the
    sport) have more than only completing a ride as an important aspect of what
    we do.  It shows our care and compassion whether rider option or a vet pull.
    In the end, as our sport goes, it's the pull aspect which shows our
    understanding of the horse as our partners not our inanimate vehicles.
    Other equine ventures can't boast a "pull rate"  of course, because they
    don't have one.  We can be truly proud of our attention to this.
        Words are everything, maybe we need to come up with a term for not
    finishing a ride which has no negative stigma attached to it but
    communicates the concern we have for our partners in not continuing the
    ride.  How about instead of pulled, use the word "rested", maybe
    "withdrawn", how about "sadly retired today", any other ideas?"
        I agree also with those that have said that the pull rate indicates
    something about the horse or rider and therefore is important.  What that
    rate indicates is not always something that can be understood with just
    statistics.  More work needs to be done here in the understanding of those
    numbers.  Australian Log book system?
    
    Randy Winter
    Colorado
    
    
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