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I've never noticed any difference between two vet check rides and three 
vet check rides or even one ride we had aound here that was four checks 
(50 miles). The few minutes - and it's no more than 7 to 10 minutes I 
lose getting in and getting the pulse checked in the extra check I more 
than make up for on the trail letting them stop and much some because of 
the longer loop. Sure this just isn't mental rather than actual?

Truman

DreamWeaver wrote:

> At 03:03 PM 2/24/2005, Truman Prevatt wrote:
>
> > I've never quite understood that argument either. Your ride time is 
> > you does not include you hold time. Average_speed X ride_time = 
> > distance. If you ride steady at 6 mph it doesn't matter how many vet 
> > checks you have your ride time will for 50 miles will be 8:20 if you 
> > have one check two checks or three checks. Like Angile if I only had 
> > one check, I'd take more time since I would stop to eat on the trail.
>
>
> I would probably argue about it too, if I hadn't experienced how it 
> really works for me and my horses. They all get into a routine. It 
> takes time to go into the check, as I usually will dismount and walk 
> into the vetcheck -- that alone can add an extra ten to fifteen 
> minutes to each and every check depending upon how far I walk. Then I 
> have to go to the in-timer, the horse usually wants to drink before I 
> get a pulse, then go get a pulse. If there is a group I may have to 
> wait (most of the time I have to wait, because most of the rides in my 
> region are quite large). Sometimes you have to pull tack before you 
> can pulse down because they want you to vet thru as soon as you get 
> your pulse -- if I go to my trailer first to pull tack (I don't have 
> crew), even if it is close that will waste even more time. Once you 
> accurately figure out how much time is wasted going thru a check three 
> times a day instead of once, then it's pretty easy to see how even if 
> you let the horse eat on the trail it doesn't make up for that lost 
> time, which is not included in the 'holds'. I let my horses eat the 
> same on a trail regardless of whether or not I have one or three vet 
> checks, if there is food and they want it they eat. They usually don't 
> have to stop and waste time there either, they learn to grab and go. 
> Go do some 5 day rides, then some one day rides and report back how it 
> works for your horses, ok?
>
> Karen


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