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My thoughts exactly!

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beth Walker" <bwalker2@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Clarification


Horses can get sick, colic, or get hurt at any time.   
> Sometimes, in retrospect, you can say:  yes, I missed something - it  
> was there, but I missed it at the time.  In those cases, hopefully  
> you learn something and don't repeat the error.  However, sometimes  
> there really wasn't any indication that there was a problem.   I  
> don't see the sense in saying "you should have caught it, seen it, or  
> been clairvoyant" when there were no indications that anything was  
> wrong.
>
> I don't think that, if I am at a ride and see a horse hooked up to  
> IVs, I have any business assuming that the rider did something wrong,  
> or overrode the horse, or deliberately ignored a problem when I have  
> absolutely no information about the situation.  The determination of  
> whether the rider was in error should be between the rider, the vet  
> and ride management.


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