Neat! I woke up to see you guys actually having an
interesting discussion on P/R and the things have really have improved.
Everyone brought up very interesting points. Honestly, as I told Truman,
sometimes I'm guilty of just loving to argue :) I do agree with this
list of improvements in principle:
In my mind the
best things that ever happened to protect the horses during a ride
were:
The pulse gate
into hold at all checks.
The mandatory
pulse recovery at the finish.
Sound at a trot at
the finish.
DQ if horse needs
treatment within an hour of finishing.
Still,
it's interesting to try to figure out if it's "mattered" to horses' welfare
overall. No, I do not think the AERC can change people's basic
nature, that was factitious. It is just interesting to see what these
rules have changed and what they haven't and, as Truman would say, did they
make any statistical difference.
