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[RC] Prineville, Injured riders and horses - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Paula Juergens cowlitztractor@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Actually, at that time, there was 4 of us huddled together in the one small opening off the single track from letting the pannicked horses go by. Two horses in our group were grazed from scarcely making it out of the way in time, but none the less horses and riders were left unharmed, which was suprising because we had a gal that was supposed to be very new and on the nervous side, to the sport. Being the drag rider of our little group,I yelled back in the chain of succession to warn other riders behind us of the pending doom heading their direction. Just as we had been warned by worried voices ahead of us,I saw saw somebody about 125 yards behind go off of their crow hopping horse, once the pannicked horses cleared the scene, which took all of 10 seconds, as horses can really scoot in that kind of fray, Anyway, our little huddled group could just make out "I think so" when we yelled out, "are you ok". Of course under scuffling hooves and such excitementwith in split second, this poor injured gal might have thought we were asking something entirely different,, and hind sight is 20/20 but useless in retrospect to what happened. It's a sad situation that happened. And I beleive some one in here already said it could have been far worse,, and I will vehemently agree, but wish none of us would have to. It's like trying to ask car wreck victims exact details, it depends on where you were located and your perspective and how each individual brain processes such a violent and lightning fast situation. Unless you have been through expert witness training, military combat, bullriding, or other consistant life situations were this is not so traumatic, it is nearly impossible for the average person to give exact details, placements, and perspective. These things occur so quickly that there is no way to control or alter the course of the outcome. I'm sure if anyone in our little group thought for one second that there was anything more then just a horseless rider with a bruised bum back there, we all would have been turning tail to help, especially concidering, 2 of us actually have some medical experience. One gal is a nurse, and I'm a Certified Herdsman, granted my training is specialized to cattle but I understand the basics of trauma situations, containing and controlling damage, and how to stop bleeding etc. For goodness sake, nobody intentionally left anyone to sit in their agony,, to imply such a thing is to imply an absurd statement of absolute inhumanity. I think that most endurance riders do this sport not only for the love of horses, but also for the commradory of fellow riders. The amount of love, care, selection and time and training that we put into our animals is well an example of the heart and basic human caring you will find I think in the majority of the riders in this sport. Like i said, to imply that any of us would "intentionally" leave someone in agony, let alone not knowing the fact that this gal had a potentially life threatening injury is positively, absolutely absurd, can you even imagine! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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