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    RE: [RC] RO - Steph Teeter


    I guess I don't agree with this. Lame is lame, 'worried about becoming lame' is not the same. There are often grade 1 lame horses that are given placement, or completion. Should these be listed as Lame instead? I understand that the intent of Ride Option was to apply to problems that riders have, not horses. But that still doesn't mean that a rider who has concerns about continuing a ride - concerns related to the horse's condition - should pick one of the horse pull categories as their reason for pulling - if the decision to pull was entirely up to the rider. As far as garnering statistical information there are enough real L, M pulls that we don't need to split hairs over cases where the rider thinks the horse just doesn't feel right, or doesn't want to risk injury by continuing.
     
    Steph
    -----Original Message-----
    From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Heidi Smith
    Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:04 PM
    To: Sue Brown; Ridecamp
    Subject: Re: [RC] RO

    Yes, you should have asked the vet to change the card.  The vet did not understand how the pull codes are used.  Even though the horse was deemed "sound enough to continue" by the vet, the reason that made YOU choose to pull was an issue of soundness.  "Rider option" was perhaps poorly named--it should have been something like "rider issue" or "rider incapacity" or something like that.
     
    Heidi
     
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Sue Brown
    Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 5:10 PM
    Subject: Re: [RC] RO

    “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.  


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