Caveat--This is just my
own definition, but you asked for it..
:-)
"Harm"=anything that a
few days of RnR or slight doctoring won't cure. For example, in Tevis
this year, Cayenne pulled a shoe outside Francisco's--she was slightly foot
sore but was fine by next day. (I've had oodles of things like that happen
in 100s!) If we'd been in anything less than a 100, she would have
completed. But, there's luck, wear and tear on the shoes, with all those
steps, more likely one would land on the back of that shoe (and then of course
it was on a hard rocky road that she pulled it off....) Well, you get the
picture!
Subject: Re: [RC] Reply to Risk Question
& Mileage
In a message dated 12/5/2005 10:29:31 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, dabneyesq@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
If by
"risk" you mean "risk of harm to the horse," then I don't agree higher
mileage increases that.
Okay, Dabney, not to be Clinton-esque, but could you now define "harm"?
(and how does that relate, in your opinion, to higher mileage increases,
though I am fully aware of degradation in any bio-system resulting from
repetitive movements).
