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Bravo, Heidi!!!  Unfortunately, others often try to look superior by
placing, or trying to place, a label on a rider whose horse has been pulled.
I was the board member who made the motion to use the RO pull code, with
either M or L attached (for the purpose of vet evaluation and education).
While my reasoning was that RO made the pull look less damaging to the
rider's reputation, and give the rider a positive image for his/her wisdom,
some others will still try to make any pull look like the "rider overrode
his/her horse".  There isn't enough room for all the possible codes that
could be created to cover all circumstances.  Maybe we should have a code YJ
for Yellowjackets, TOR for tripped over rock, etc. etc.  It could almost be
funny, but the goal here is LEARNING, not crucifying riders.  I think SF
(surface factors) is valid, and a RO without the L or M is intended to mean,
"the rider was exhausted, ill, injured, or just having a bad hair day".

Barbara McCrary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heidi Smith" <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Nancy Mitts"
<mitts_n@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Rider Option


> > Hmmmmm....but there
> > is a stigma, isn't there?
> Only if you let there be one.  The real stigma comes when individual
riders
> earn a reputation for repeated irresponsibility--not from what the pull
code
> says.  And rightfully so.
>
> Heidi
>
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