I agree, however one situation has not been brought up. I
was at a ride this year, it was an LD, so my pulse down time was relative to my
finishing order. When my horse pulsed down, the timer was in the middle of a
personal conversation with a group of others, and did not record my time until
the pulse taker shouted it several times. The timer was less than 15 feet away.
And no, I was not rude, but I was tempted. Had I been in the top ten and this
put me 11th instead, I would have been a little angry.
All vets score BC differently and many may not calculate and/or
use criteria time when doing BC scoring. I did an informal poll of 4 vets
at one ride and only 2 of them look at data throughout the day.
And
since she was in a line of 15-20 horses that arrived to camp at the
same time, others may have been in the same position, leveling the playing
field. I have also looked at a lot of CT rides and found that the top ten
are usually spread across and hour or so [between #1 and #10] so most
likely the "clump" of horses standing there were not top 10.
The
flip side is, it gives them an extra minute within which to reach criteria.
So I think it's inconsequential, but others may feel differently and that's
OK - there's always the option to dock my pay or fire me
;-)
Kristen
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy
Olson [mailto:olsonjer15@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, November 03,
2005 3:54 PM > To: kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; SandyDSA@xxxxxxx; jonnij@xxxxxxxx; > ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >
Subject: RE: [RC] rude riders revisited > > Kristen, >
> You are correct when you say that the in-time does not matter
> as far as the pulse criteria goes, where it does come into >
play is in the BC scoring. > Recovery time is exactly that, the time it
takes your horse > to recover from the in-time to the pulse-time. If a
group of > horses comes in together it is my understanding that they
> shouold all have the same in-time. If I am incorrect in this >
line of thinking please correct me. > > Jeremy Olson >
> > >From: "Kristen A Fisher" <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >To:
<SandyDSA@xxxxxxx>,<jonnij@xxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >
>Subject: RE: [RC] rude riders revisited > >Date: Thu,
3 Nov 2005 13:46:18 -0600 > > > >When I was arrival timer at
the Region 9 ride, I had a 50 > miler worried > >about the
arrival time I wrote on her card because there was a line, > >and by
the time her time was written it was 1 minute after > she called
> >her name [call your name all you want, I ain't writing your
> time down > >until I have your vet card!]. I reminded her
that arrival > time has no > >impact on out time or ride
time, so it doesn't matter as long as her > >horse pulses in within
30 minutes of that time. She seemed > like that was news to her.
Hmm. >
>Kristen
