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Respectfully, I very much doubt your observation extends to more than  
one vet.  Since I ride in the same region as you, having hired vets  
for 7 rides and evaluating their performance to decide whether to  
invite them back, I rather take issue with the inference that this  
region tolerates vetting of this manner.

My experience is that PS endurance vets are collaborative and of  
course their procedure favors the aware rider while providing the new  
rider a fairly consistent framework to gain their own experience.

Lynne

On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 8/23/2005 8:11:24 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
> tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > I've even seen one vet do it that is now in western Canada. I don't
> > think it's a regional thing but a vet thing. The ones I've seen do it
> > can watch two horses trot while the quickly feel the tendons.
>
>
> They feel the tendons WHILE the horses's trot? They must be fast ;).
>
> I'm not saying that they can't see a big lameness on a straight  
> trot, THREE horses at a time, but we both know that a very slight  
> lameness will not show up on a straight trot (even if its one horse  
> trotting at a time).  For people who don't do their own lameness  
> exams  (watch their horse trot in a circle) and just rely on ride  
> vets to tell them their horse is sound, they're missing a big piece  
> of the picture and I'm sure most ride vets would TELL them that.
>
> Sylvia


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