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RE: [RC] Pull Codes - heidiI can't argue with your opinion and I guess we will agree to disagree. My experiences in the last few years is that pull codes are abused. I have seen it. We don't go to the same rides. No conspiracy just different experiences. Go ahead and put more on RMs and Vets but I still think it would be simpler to eliminate the "reason" why riders want a particular pull code. The data would still be available in a data base for use in the future whether the information was published or not. Again, I am having difficulty visualizing this abuse. Can you please explain how it happens? Every "skewed" pull code I've seen has been due to misunderstanding, not to abuse of the system. (I'm pretty sure I have a RO pull on my record, for instance, that should be a RO-L pull--the horse clearly was lame, had a tendon injury, but I made the choice to turn around on the trail after it happened and come back to camp and pull him. No "bargaining" or "abuse" of the system there--that was simply what the vet listed, reasoning that since *I* had made the choice to pull, it was a RO pull, not understanding that it needed the "L" after it, because no way in the hot place would he have allowed the horse back out if he had seen it trot either. In all truth, he did not reexamine the horse--he took my word that the horse was Grade 3 lame. Again, this was not an abuse of the system--this was a vet who didn't understand how the pull code is applied.) As far as a being part of the horse's ride history, I suppose that you would have no problem having individual vet cards available on the horse's ride record to peruse also. It is part of the horse's ride history. I suppose that any treatment a horse receives during a ride should also be part of the horse's public record as that also is part of the individual horse ride history. I don't have a problem with it as such--other than the logistical reason that I like to see the riders get their cards back for their own purposes, and in fact, when I vet, I don't even collect them in the first place. I make lists on a notepad instead, of pulls, pull codes, etc. But if AERC ever gets to the point of having some kind of a recording system and will USE IT for research purposes, I don't have any problem with, say, a digital recording of the card that goes to AERC. When we ride, we voluntarily enter rides, and as such, agree to follow the rules of the sport. No one forces us to be endurance riders. A part of participating in this sport is accepting pull codes. Stuff happens. Pulls happen. Get over it. If you can't stand to have your pull listed, don't ride. It's that simple... Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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