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    RE: [RC] Protecting Horses / vet checks - Roger Rittenhouse


    FROM   Roger Rittenhouse
     I could buy off on the PULSE STOP and GO   or just a PULSE CHECK.
    Not a real VC. IF the policy was defined before the ride and the vet in
    charge stated this was 'approved'  I do not see this against the rules
    - as Bob has suggested.
    Step - this suggestion could be acceptable to replace my 'hard line'
    for two or more VC per 50 miles.
    
    This away pulse station would be staffed with Pulse personal only -
     out on trail.
    
    I would think it MAY be a suitable for those rides where logistics
    prevent placing a full VC  - staff  crews vets etc, since many rides
    with ONE VC only use 1 or at most 2 vets.
    I would think this could be easily done someplace between the first VC
    and the finish at almost all the rides - The RM may have to work out
    getting a single truck in to the area but I bet it could be done.
    The Pulse ONLY check would NOT have crews - should have water for
    horses.  Would be proper to provide hay if no grass was at the site.
    OR RM take rider junk out there, done all the time.
    
    I would REALLY like to a few RM  who only use ONE VC on a 50 give this
      concept a test run.
    
    If a horse fails to recover to pulse of xx -I prefer 64-
     in the time defined   - 30 minutes - which is the time set
    for a normal VC, the horse is considered out of competition -based on
    the current rules of a VC,  then he gets taken back to camp where a vet
    reviews the status of the horses.  This could be a gate to hold  -
    ashort hold 15 minutes? -
    preferred to allow for better timing control rather then pulse gate and go
    
    I do NOT see this option as a problem with our rules. However a
    section could be added by the Rules Comm to offer this  protocol as an
    option to a second VC.
    I would really like to  this tested and would like to see it used
    certainly in the one VC 50 milers.- even in the SE  we
    could drop a VC ( on a 3 VC ride) and just add this. The horses are stopped - cooled
    watered and rested and allowed for a recovery point.
    At those rides with loops back to camp  - the riders could then go to
    a vet if there was a problem.
    
    This may also help with the vet overload situation on the biggie rides
    with 200 riders.  Reduce the VC pileup.
    Here is a loop suggestion 50 milers only  depends on mileage points
    Loop 1 Full VC
    Loop 2 Pulse check hold and go
    Loop 3 Full VC
    Finish
    
    See - I can compromise when good workable ideas are proposed.
    
    Truman - you think we could get a few rides in the SE to try this
    idea?
    
    Roger Rittenhouse
    
    
    
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