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Re: [RC] When you see the vet after reaching pulse criteria? - k s swigart

From: "Kristen A Fisher" <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I am curious about this. I thought you must present to the vet within
your
hold time? So, if you pulse in, and have a 45 min hold, you have to
see the
vet within that 45 mins.

While you must vet in sometime during your hold, the ride imposed "hold
time" is a minimum hold time.  AERC rules say you can stay at a vet
check as long as you like. Although some rides have "cut off times" at
their vet checks which require you to leave the check by a particular
fixed time, if you got to the vet check two hours before this cut off
time, even if it only has a 15 minute hold, you could stay there for two
hours and see the vet right before you left.

At the recent Cold Springs ride, the hold time for the first vet check
was only 30 minutes.  I had decided (since I was hoping to elevate to
the 100) to stay extra time at the vet check and let my horse eat and
rest plenty.  I was there for probably about 45 minutes while she ate
and rested.  Saw the vet, cinched up and headed out.

I also spent extra time at the 50 mile check (about an hour instead of
45 minutes) as much so _I_ could rest and eat as for the horse.  And,
no, I didn't take my horse to the vet immediately (it may have been
within the hold time, I don't really know because I didn't care enough
to pay attention, and the rules don't say that I need to care enough to
pay attention) because _I_ wasn't fit for trotting her out.

If the horse is not compromised, when you the see the vet for the vet
check is irrelevant.  And if you aren't in a rush, the statutory hold
time is irrelevant too.  You and your horse stay at the vet check for as
long as appropriate to ensure that the horse continues to be not
compromised.

If my horse is compromised, I seek veterinary assistance as soon as
possible.  And everybody I know who rides endurance does the same.  And
this is true whether at a vet check or at the finish line.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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