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[RC] Changing Vet/Pulse Criteria - roleyedI'm a heavyweight riding a grade horse which is a "heavy"(turbo charged Morgan/Arab cross with heavy duty towing package per Angie) 15H 1000lb horse. Generally, I ride to complete with a goal of going as fast as we can can go in a quest to do a little better than last time. Sometimes I even do get close to Top 10(talking 50's) and often am the first HW. We would generally meet this new criteria for the vet checks but having "raced" at the end of one 50 in warmer weather than my horse was used to(early April in Georgia coming from mtns of NC) ended up not meeting pulse criteria until 20-25 minutes at end of ride. Horse was fine. Never had a metabolic pull. Few lameness pulls. We would have not gotten a "place"(13th) on this ride with the proposed criteria. I guess a question I have here is would this "handicap" non-arab, not so tiney hiney players? I would recommend we not proceed headlong into changing rules until it is absolutely clear rule changes will actually make a difference in horse welfare. Ed Roley & Sawyer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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