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Re: [RC] what's the point... - Joe LongOn Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:17:29 -0400, "Howard Bramhall" <howard9732@xxxxxxx> wrote: ... Trust me, when a vibrant, healthy, well conditioned horse gets into metabolic trouble at a ride, especially if it has to be put on IV or dies, it is endurance related. To think otherwise is burying your head in the sand. We're not a bunch of chicken little's here screaming the sky is falling when it is not. The sky, quite frankly, isn't falling, but, to think that these deaths are purely coincidental with the fact that the horse just happened to be competing in an endurance ride at the time is about as lucid as George Bush's grammar. Sorry, but this is just wrong, and easily disproven. For example, a good friend of mine almost lost an endurance horse at a 50 mile ride in Alabama. The horse was on medications and IV's and barely pulled through. So it had to be overriding, or endurance-related, you say? The horse never left camp! It coliced before it was ever saddled up. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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