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RE: [RC] Answer to Lisa - bobmorrisTom: You fall into your own trap, the dissemination of less than factual information based on hearsay and conjecture. If you are in the least concerned about the death of endurance horses in the United States, please send a request to the AERC Veterinary Committee and/or the AERC Welfare of the Horse Committee for the information. We have been gathering statistics concerning equine fatalities for a number of years. The information includes the location of the equine fatality, the basic conditions and the proximal cause of death where discernable. In some instances these data are supported by necropsy reports. You will find, if you are interested, that the number of equine fatalities attributable to endurance competition is extremely small, well below the actuarial numbers for normal field deaths. Bob Morris AERC Director, Northwest Region AERC Bob Morris Morris Endurance Enterprises Boise, ID -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ridecamp Guest Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:02 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Answer to Lisa Please Reply to: ti Tivers@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== I don't believe that only 1% of our riders are smart enough to be in this sport. I know there are a lot, I mean way too many stupid people that own horses. However, I believe that, that concentration of ignorance is outside of this venue and that endurance has some of the most educated horse people. Nutrition has become so specific to endurance that even the feed companies have tried making feeds to give horses an "edge". I am not saying that everyone should be feeding these concentrated feeds, but I do believe that endurance riders have a pretty good handle on feeding programs. No one feeds their horses the same. No one rides them the same, either. The information is out there, and most of us are reading and researching it. What more can we do?> For one thing, consider the possibility that these wonderful feed solutions "designed for endurance" are incorrect, based on faulty extrapolations of minimal scientific data. If that is so, do you have a "pretty good handle" on endurance horse nutrition? All humans believe they know everything they need to know to do what they're doing. While that is a very comforting belief, it's wrong, obviously. There are things you are certain are true, things you are certain are false, and a huge miasma of things that are completely up for grabs. You cannot, in your own mind, allow the "up for grabs" stuff contaminate the certain truths. And I have seen, personally, plenty of dead horses littering the endurance courses in the Middle East. Unreported, of course. Maybe the US is tops in the world at not killing endurance horses--I don't know. It is certainly comforting to hear that this is so. Thank you for this good news. ti =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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