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In other words, Joe, he is not "fit to continue."  The very name of our post-ride check implies that the horse is NOT in risk of getting into trouble if he goes on.  So maybe we should rename our post-ride check and call it "completed the ride but might not be fit to continue..."

 

Heidi

 

PS:  If "research has shown..." then why do you keep telling us that there is no substantive evidence that horses that are deemed "fit to continue" should recover within 30 minutes?  Seems like a pretty circular argument. 

I said I wanted to wind this down, but after going to bed I kept
thinking about it and realized that there is a point that no one has
addressed, to my knowledge.  It has to do with the reason that a horse
that doesn't recover within 30 minutes at a vet check is not allowed to
continue.

Research has shown that a horse who's pulse does not recover within 30
minutes is at risk of getting into trouble if subjected to additional
stress, by going on down the trail.  That does not mean that a horse who
takes longer than 30 minutes is already in trouble -- he may or may not
be, a full vet exam is necessary to determine that.  But he is at
increased RISK of GETTING into trouble if he goes on. 

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