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> I've been to a lot of trail rides, benefit for this and
> that. And I've 
> never seen one out of 7 horses lined up at IV's even
> before the ride was 
> finished. I have at in endurance rides.  This need not
> scare us, it 

 Ahhhh, I have but, there were no vets there to intervene
and help horses by putting them on IV's...I have seen fat
out of shape horses overridden, colicky horses, horses
tieing up, horses ridden with ugly open sores and alot of
uncaring/ignorant? *horse people* that thought it more
important to drink beer and socialize after tha ride than
properly tend to their horses. Don't kid yourself it
happens in other venues besides endurance.

It dosn't make it right and I think *we* are going about
it the right way by looking for trends and gathering
data..but this needs to be a long term, several years,
project before anyone starts talking about changing things
at rides, new rules and regulations.

  It may be that we pick a few rides in every region to
try out some of the longer holds, fewer loops and other
easily do-able subjects that have been bouncing around this
list. Then we can scrutinize these rides over time vs rides
that don't have these changes and crunch the appropriate
numbers to compare and contrast.

Also maybe someone can make up log books to give to people
who want to be the *guniea pigs* that will attend many
rides both the old way and new change rides next year. This
would give us more detailed information of the changed
rides vs the standard rides from a rider/horse perspective.

It would also be great if these vol. log book people could
have their horse weighed and blood drawn at the rides to
give some physical measurable data over a year. I know I
for one would be more than happy to be a *test tube* rider
and would gladly pay extra to help cover the expense of all
it would entail to empliment it. To me it would be worth an
extra $20 or so/ride just for my own personal knowledge and
to help the number crunchers get a better fix on things
like length of loops, hold times, CRI and so forth. This
way we are not increasing everyones entry fees. 

Regards,
Penny 





> should energize toward working toward doing all we can to
> help the 
> horses better participate in the sport by trying to
> mitigate these 
> stress factors.
>
> Truman
>
>
>
> Sisu West Ranch wrote:
>
> > You will get no argument from me that going to an
> endurance event produces a
> > stress on a horse.  Going to a trail ride does the same.
> Packing in the
> > wilderness stress horses.  Herding cattle stresses
> horses etc.
> >  
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