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OK, but it does require you to move the horse into the gate.  What  
about horses that get a bit buzzed when they are moved?  Do the vets  
give them a few minutes to (hopefully) settle back down?

I worked P&R for years here in the PS, until I started doing the  
rides again, and I've run into many horses whose heart rate would go  
up when they were moved, or their buddy left, etc.  It would take a  
minute or so for them to come back down.

On Aug 28, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Steph Teeter wrote:

> For clarification:
>
> our system, and typical FEI system: as soon as the rider presents  
> it's horse to the pulse timer, the horse pulse time (criteria) is  
> recorded. The rider does not have to wait for anybody to take the  
> pulse. The rider then gets the time slip from the pulse timer and  
> goes directly to the vet (or in other variations, goes directly to  
> the pulse taker).  The vet or pulse taker verifies that the horse  
> has reached criteria, and if it has not - the rider takes the horse  
> back out of the pulse gate and starts over again.
>
> The whole point of this system is so that the rider does not have  
> to lose time waiting for somebody to get to them and take a pulse.  
> It' s a bit of an 'honor system' in that a rider could fudge by a  
> few seconds or minutes between pulse gate (criteria) time  
> recording, and verification by vet or official. (i.e. cross the  
> pulse gate line when the horse is at 68, hoping he's down to 64 by  
> the time the pulse is actually taken) But that is better than  
> having a horse that has reached criteria losing time because a  
> volunteer is not available.

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