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We're running 100 to 150 riders regularly. Some rides do have six vets, 
some don't but we don't have lines very often. If all horses are ending 
up at the check at the same time - then more though has to be given to 
the start times and trails.

Truman

TypeF (Jackie Floyd) wrote:

> > So if you have vet lines - maybe you should be protesting to the ride 
> > management.
>
>
> Not enough hours in the day for that I think! LOL Actually, I think we 
> just have such a big population in the West, RM's would have to have 6 
> vets at a ride not to have lines. We have plenty of rides to choose 
> from, they all just have a lot of entries. What I'm remembering (I'm 
> old, so take this with a grain of salt, memory not being what it use 
> to be hehe) most I've been to have anywhere from 2 to 4 vets. How you 
> get 4 vets to vet a ride when half the vets are riders themselves, I 
> haven't figured out yet. When they've had 4 they usually leap frog 
> them two at time past each other to the next vet check, it seems, so 
> that there are usually two at any given place. But when you've got an 
> average of a 100 horses at a ride, you're gonna get lines. It's a 
> rule, you know ... that ALL the horses end up at the vet check at the 
> same time LOL!!! And I would never protest about the P&R lines when 
> all those horses show up at once. All those nice volunteers are doing 
> the best job they can to get all the horses through to their hold 
> times. I'm just happy they're volunteering!
>
> :) Jackie


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