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Jackie has a point about vet availability.  I can't begin to recall all the 
times I have asked vets to work our ride, only to have them say "NO" 
outright, or "I really had planned to ride your ride".  For some reason, 
it's really hard to find vets in the west, and the ones who do repeated 
rides eventually burn out.  I take it one year at a time, and cross my 
fingers, hoping the ones we have won't say no some year.
While I don't plan the vet gates (our group of volunteer horsemen do that, 
with the help of the vets), and I actually haven't watched the gates work, 
reports from family members who have ridden our ride say that the box vet 
gate really works well.  It was introduced to our ride on year when we 
cross-sanctioned with FEI, and one of our daughters, and our volunteer 
group, said it really worked well.  Since then, our timers/P&R people have 
set it up each year.  They put out stakes and tie surveyors tape to them to 
make a box enclosure.  I'm sure anyone who has ridden an FEI ride will know 
how it works.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TypeF (Jackie Floyd)" <typef@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ride Camp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] re: speed at multidays


> > 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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