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KimFue@xxxxxxx wrote:

>  
> Truman,
>    Why would you use an inflammatory line like "*Electrolytes are the 
> work of the devil" camps on the Internet." *in your post when you are 
> referring to this discussion of electrolytes.  I realize that you did 
> address this to Angie, but why send this to the group when you 
> could have sent this private.  99.9% of this discussion has been very 
> civil and respectful.  I have found it very informative and it sounded 
> like others on the list also found it informative. 
>  

I've worked many a rides in my day. When you see a horse in stress and 
new riders telling the vets they didn't give electrolytes because they 
read they shouldn't on ride camp - it can get a bit frustrating. Here 
they have some of the best vets in the country they can ask. They have 
vets that have been vetting rides and treating horses at rides for years 
in the conditions right there at their disposal, but for some reason 
they don't bother to take advantage of that knowledge. I've never known 
a ride vet to not spend time with new riders answering their questions.

But for some reason people are taking their ques from ridecamp. 
Something just doesn't make sense in this picture. Reading the current 
incarnation of "electrolytes" - this subject is starting to take on the 
"religious fervor"  of the "barefoot wars" more than the a logical 
discussion.

If people truly want to learn and understand the rolls of electrolytes 
the best place for them to start is the ride vets that vet the rides in 
the area where they are riding and/or at clinics put on by regional 
and/or local distance riding organizations in the areas they are riding. 
I've ridden enough in the east, west, north and south to tell you there 
are many factors that go into the electrolyte equation. It a big 
country. It has climatic zones that go from tropical to arid. The east 
coast along runs from Cuba to Canada. The place for new riders to start 
understanding the roll and function of electrolyte replacement is from 
the folks in the region (and climate) they ride.

Truman
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."  - 
Bertrand Russell




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