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Re: [RC] OUCH - Joe Long

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:43:39 -0700, "Karla Watson" <karlawatson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Had a ride vet up here who doesn't do more than just 
this one ride, pull a BIG scab off my friends horse leg 
at the vet in! Made it bleed cause it was not ready to come 
off but it was healed enough to be fine for the ride if he 
didn't pull the scab off! Of course the horse was tender 
after that. I didn't know if that was against the AERC 
rules and didn't know to make a stink or not. Is that 
against the rules?

There's no rule that covers that, that I know of.

All this reminds of a incident one year at a priemier East Coast 100 mile ride.
I had been going nearly every year, until the year they didn't allow Kahlil to
start because he wasn't "sound."  True, he was a bit off at the pre-vet, but at
that time he was having that problem at some rides and he always warmed up out
of it and was 100% sound by the first vet check.  My telling them that didn't
cut any ice, so I saddled up and rode him a couple of miles and brought him back
to the vets.  Well, they admitted he'd improved, so now they pulled up his front
leg and twisted the hell out of it, and had me trot him out again -- sure
enough, he was lame for the first few steps.  It was like they were determined
to support their initial decision.  We didn't get to start, and I never went
back to that ride again.

A few weeks later Kahlil was in exactly the same condition at the pre-vet at the
Race of Champions, where he was allowed to start -- and he was sound at every
vet check, and finished sound.

-- 

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxx
http://www.rnbw.com


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