Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Finish lines and criteria

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:16:30 -0400, "Linda" <Elite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>    Am I reading this post right... your saying that riders do their
>completions in steps... the movement, then pulse, etc?
>    At a ride I was at earlier this spring a horse was fine on all except
>pulse (if I remember right), anyway once they got the pulse down then the
>horse was starting to stiffen up and was "off".  The vet said that there
>wouldn't be a completion because "fit to continue" meant everything had to
>be alright all at once.  In other words... the horse could come back when
>the pulse was down... but movement still had to be good.   The people
>working on the horse had argued that it was all right when the horse came in
>and that he had already "passed" on his movement.
>    So... how is this supposed to work?

The horse must be presented to the vet in fit condition to continue,
and the rider/crew has up to one hour after crossing the finish line
to do this.  That means that at presentation all factors must add up
to "fit to continue."  If something comes up short you can come back
(within the hour) for a further exam, but at that time everything
should be checked, and the horse is either fit to continue at that
point or he is not.  A horse whose metabolics were bad at one point
where the soundness was OK, but was unsound when the metabolics
recovered, was never "fit to continue" at any time within the hour and
should not get a completion.

The vet did it right.



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