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Jeanne, give it a rest and stop yelling at me, especially since you're mostly wrong.

Jeanne Slominski wrote:
> Jeez, Diane, if AERC BC forms are NOT used, it isn't a LD BC award. What 
> is so hard to understand about that? If you take the time to look at the 
> year book or EN, you will see in the ride results that the vast majority 
> of rides in the West or Pacific South don't show any thing for LD BC. 
> That means it wasn't awarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it also shows who the 
> head vet was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and then later:

> It's NOT a BC award - could be a Horse Excellence award , a horsemanship
> award, whatever, but it's NOT a BC award!

1) The letters "BC" stand for "Best Condition".  When the Head Vet says your horse 
has completed a ride in better shape than the other horses and the RM awards you a 
prize for that achievement, it IS a Best Condition Award.  If the Head Vet didn't use 
the AERC Best Condition form, the award is still a Best Condition Award.  If the AERC 
doesn't give you points for it, it is still a Best Condition Award.  By your 
reasoning, and using your words, the Haggin Cup at Tevis, "is NOT a BC award - could 
be a Horse Excellence award , a horsemanship award, whatever, but it's NOT a BC 
award!"  Anyone associated with Tevis care to jump in here?  This is not a private 
conversation. :)

2) Not having awarded a Best Condition at a ride is only one of the reasons that EN 
might fail to list a Best Condition.  The Best Condition Award may have been 
calculated not using the AERC Best Condition form or the Ride Manager may have 
inadvertently failed to report the award to AERC on the original forms, or a 
secretary at AERC may have omitted the Best Condition listing when sending the ride 
results out to the printer.  The fact that no Best Condition is listed does not 
always mean that no Best Condition was awarded.  Take the Sand Hills Stampede I 30 
Miles ride (SE Region) last April.  There is no Best Condition listed for that ride, 
despite there having been 46 finishers.  If I were like you, I might say, "Jeez, 
Jeanne, here you have this vet Dr Schmitt who even wrote to us here at Ridecamp to 
support giving the LD BC to a Top Ten horse, and Jeez, Jeanne, he didn't even award 
one at the Sand Hills Stampede I 30 Miles ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  [See, I know how 
to yell too :) ]  But were I to do that, I would be dead wrong because Dr Schmitt DID 
award a BC at that ride.  It went to Staccnepov ridden by JoAnn Baker.

So you see, Jeanne, when you say that if EN doesn't list anything for Best Condition, 
"That means it wasn't awarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it also shows who the head vet 
was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", you are only half right.


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