Sue replied:
"We were given the go-ahead from the vet
but opted to pull anyway."
terre said:
Sue, you are missing Bob's point. The only reason
we even HAVE pull codes
is that we are trying to amass data on "what
goes wrong at rides, what
causes horses to pull". We don't care who
detected the problem, we care
what
the problem was.
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No...I’m
not missing Bob’s point. Take a look at the sentence at the end of
the paragraph that was cut when you quoted me.
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We
discussed this with the vet at the ride...he said it wasn’t enough that
he would pull him and would still let him go on.. he classified it as a
1+...but I didn’t want to take any chances since I use him for a
schooling horse. What I saw was on the trail and not demonstrated to any
degree at the vet check. * **The new RO listings would list it as ROL. ***
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“RO” is what the vet put on the card. Are you
saying I should have made him change the card? I believe that this issue
is currently being addressed as to what the reason is for the pull -- getting a
better definition of the RO pulls. Yes, it was Rider Option because the
vet declared him sound enough to continue. Yes, he was sound enough to
continue but would he still be sound after another 30 miles? We didn’t
know and we didn’t want to take the chance. He had not been categorized
as Lame by the vet yet because he wasn’t yet lame by definition. I
personally don’t care if it’s listed as RL-O (Rider Option Lame),
altho the vet didn’t see what we saw (or we think we saw) so he couldn’t
call it a pull for lameness, except for maybe an odd bobble...not enough for a
pull.
I agree with both sides of the discussion...the info needs to be
tracked (which is why they’re working a better way of listing the Rider
Option categories) Until then, the vet did not pull the horse for
lameness because it was not a lameness past a 1 when the vet saw him. The
vet said he was “fit to continue” but we said “okay...but we’re
still going to pull.” We could have easily have said that Jim didn’t
feel good or something like that and no one would have known that we saw
anything on the trail. But we’re basically pretty honest folks so
we discussed it with the vet...who believed what we were saying, said he wasn’t
pulling us...it was our choice...and then wrote RO on the card.
End of story. Flame suit on. <g>
Sue
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"Live
as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying."
- Christian
Furchtegott Gellert, German Poet and Writer
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Sue Brown
ARICP Certified Riding
Instructor
Recreational Riding and
Dressage
Tyee Farm
Marysville, Wa.
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