I’ve never been to a ridecamp where
vets circulated around during the night to check on horses, instead it’s my
experience is that it’s time to go home for most, unless there is a
problem already being addresssed. Often, our rigs
have to be moved out by 10PM after the ride as we are on private property and
gates are being locked, and sometimes, such as at the American River Ride, the
rigs need to be moved while we’re on the ride as it is a point to point
ride and there is certainly no room at the end point for all the rigs to stay
another night.
I think we’d be eliminating many of the non-competitive “just
ride for the finish & enjoy the trail” riders, (and the rides they
attend) if we resorted to rules like this. Just my thoughts.
Kathy
Leonard.Liesens wrote:
Also, we are happy to go to bed after the race knowing that there will
be one or two vets circulating around the stables... Now it is not always as
ideal as one would like it. Sometimes there can be also some anarchy in the way
the FEI rules are enforced in
some countries. But in most western europe
countries, I can tell you that we can rely on the vets to take care of the horse.
