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Truman,

 

  Think that Otis will be willing to walk out there and wait at the finish line with Jackie???  NOT. 

Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Hey Angie,
>
> Why don't you tell us how you really feel ;-) . This just gets riper 
> with age. So far I have not seen anyone address the "finish line a mile 
> out" issue. The proposers must feel if they don't address it - it will 
> go away. I guess we will just have to cancel the BSF and disappoint 
> those that have come to love this ride because the finish line is too 
> far out to fit within AERC rules :-\ . Hopefully this bonehead proposal 
> is DOA at the board.
>
> Truman
>
> > >>I submit, that it is
>  more likely that we will improve final vet
> > procedures by requiring a 10 min CRI for all horses not just the top
> > ten.
> >
> > 10 minutes from what? 10 minutes from their finish time? Last time I
> > noticed the winners had a 15 min. CRI and the vets I know find
> > working that in irritating to deal with. It's a real problem refusing
> > to do a BC score on the horse that doesn't show up right in time for
> > the 15 min CRI since it HAS to be at 15 min. This is often while MANY
> > horses are trying to vet through to continue the ride and vets are
> > having to have the winners break line to make sure they do the CRI
> > right on time. If it's a completion frequirement, are you going to
> > pull the ones who show up 12 min. after their completion? Do they
> > have to break in front of those who are headed back out?
> >
> > What about the mile away finish line? It is HOT more often than not
> > at the
>  finish of Big South Fork. I'll have to trot fast one mile from
> > the finish to the vet check. The water has to be brought from a
> > campground down the road so it's hauled in the night before. There's
> > no shade so your water has been heating in the sun all day. You want
> > me to hurry my horse the mile from the finish line, stand out in the
> > sun, cool him with hot water (which doesn't evaporate around here
> > folks), stop before he makes criteria (actually, I doubt I'll make it
> > in from the finish line by then but whatever) and get in line for a
> > 10 min. CRI, get back out apply more hot water and have him down for
> > my 30 min. (which is actually closer to 5 min. recovery time since I
> > had a mile to go and had to stop for the CRI)for a friggin middle of
> > the pack completion? This is
> > sounding less fun all the time. Is ANYBODY thinking this stuff
> > through before they propose
>  it?
> >
> > Vets ALWAYS have the option of a CRI and from what I see they use it
> > when they have any uneasiness at all about a horse's condition. Why
> > are we seeing how many unnecessary requirements we can throw at the
> > vets at a time when they're already short handed due to judging BC as
> > the bulk of the riders come in for completions?
> >
> > You know exactly which riders you're hoping this will catch. Why
> > don't you just tell the vets to declare their horses unfit to
> > continue regardless of pulse (that isn't the only criteria you know)
> > pull their sorry hides, and let everyone else finish the darned ride,
> > vet through and go to our trailers without hassle?
> >
> > Angie
>
> > 
>
>
> -- 
>
> ?He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
> monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
> into you.? Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond
>  Good and Evil
>
>
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