Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Six horses died this year at AERC rides?

 

 Christine McLaughlin wrote:

Yes, I definaltely get what you're saying. By the way...if someone thinks that racing is "natural"...that's just not so. In the wild, horses do not "race" eachother - anymore than they look for things to "jump"! Wild horses conserve their energy as much as possible in case they do need to run for their lives...and they will go around a log if they can before jumping it.

 Rides 2 Far wrote:

> I just have to interject here...I'm on a couple of boards & this
> kind of reply is when the conversations go awry.

Sorry, I know racing gets a bad rap. I honestly just compared it because
it doesn't seem to bother the public as much if a racehorse
dies...because it looked like they were doing something so natural,
wheras, since they've never seen our horses they imagine an endurance
horse being pushed and pushed till he crawled across the desert & then
just dropped. Not that he pulled the rider's arms off, turned circles at
the water trough, and then got in a metabolic inbalance.

How's this for a better comparison. I know *personally* three horses who
have broken bones and died in their own pastures. In 15 years of
competition I have seen one horse die. Never want to see it again.
Think it could have been avoided if vet had stayed to complete the
treatment.

I do hope w e find ways to cut the number even lower, but any time this is
discussed I want to point out our good record because you never know
who's reading. How about the horses whose lives are saved BECAUSE of
endurance, like Crystal's Charm? :-)

Angie



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