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Re: [RC] Pull Codes - Barbara McCraryIt only makes a difference to the rider who is paranoid about have the "stigma" of his/her horse pulled for M or L. There was a lot of flak about this "stigma", which was why I made the motion to add RO to L or M. Personally, I don't get stigmatized by the fact that my horse may have been lame, or may have had a metabolic situation, but there are enough people who are. Quote from a rider on a recent ride, "My horse doesn't deserve this on his record". I can't say whether the horse really cares what's on his record, lame is lame and metabolic is metabolic, but if it makes the rider feel better to have it show on the record that he/she was wise enough to pull the horse before the vet did, so be it. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen" <karen@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <johnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:50 AM Subject: [RC] Pull Codes At 08:35 AM 9/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:None of this is black and white because of the complexity of the dynamical systems involved. To classify all conditions into one of 5 predefined categories requires that one ignore relevant details. It makes for easy database programming.I am not a fan of the new pull codes. I think that it took what was already a mess and screwed it up even more. They want the data reporting to be meaningful, and from what I have seen this year at different rides, the pull codes are NOT being done right. It just makes the data even less meaningful than it was before the addition of the new codes. They should have fixed what they had before adding to it. I have never heard more complaints about the pull codes before this season. Just what difference does it make statistically if a rider does a RO-L pull and the horse pulled a suspensory and then needs 6 months off versus one that is pulled L by the vets and in an hour later is totally sound again, and has a full season without any problems. I don't get why it matters who decided if the horse was lame or not, or how lame it is. If the horse does not continue in the ride for a reason, that should be the reason. Not with RO or not. So few riders really want to continue with a compromised horse that these new codes are making everybody edgy that others will think that they did not continue because the 'vet made them'. There now appears to be some sort of stigma to having a pull code without RO in front of it, since so much emphasis has been placed on the rider knowing something was not right with their horse, the rest that get pulled without RO are a bunch of idiots or something. k =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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