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RE: [RC] [AERCMembersForum] Safety Issue- Ride manager alert - heidi

I have personally had many experiences where  the horses racing at the 
finish of a 50 were distracted or alarmed and either slowed or went off 
trail (sometimes dangerously so), all due to lack of forsight by the person 
there to record the finish order, or by unforeseen obstacles (trucks being 
moved for folks to watch the finish, etc.)  

Just one comment about this--one of the most common distractions at the
finish line is a lime line across the road!  Many managers mark off
"wrong way" trails with lime bars, so you spend all day telling your
horse to move AWAY from the lime bar.  Horses learn this very
effectively.  So you come running up to the finish line, and all of a
sudden you want him to CROSS the lime bar--and his very intelligent
first reaction is "HUH??"

Heidi


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