Re: pregnancy - I think it's a Tevis rule. Which given the difficulty
of the ride, why not? Barefoot is another 'RULE' that's ride
specific.
I've never been checked for Coggins, but the only out of California
ride I've done is Nevada. I got the Coggins for the Health Cert for brand
inpsection more than anything else and haven't been stopped for that
either.
"We don't require a negative Coggins or health certificate, don't
do preg checks on the mares, don't check registration papers for age
or ownership, etc..."
Hi Dr Garlinghouse- (or someone else with an answer to this
question) -
I've been reading all of this 'safer ideas' with interest but as
you were discussing the honor system, this sentence caught my eye and I was
hoping you could clarify something for me. I was told years ago (I think
on a ride flyer) that riding pregnant or lactating mares was against AERC
rules. This spring one of my JR riders bred her mare, and at the last
ride that she did before we had her bred, I made a comment in front of a vet
about it being her last ride for a while due to getting her
pregnant. The vet laughed and said it was fine to compete her
pregnant. That sent me looking thru the rule book and I couldn't find
anything about riding pregnant mares. We still aren't this is an older
mare that was hard to get pregnant, so we are taking no chances- but I have
been wondering if it is a rule or not?
Thanks!
Jennifer
PS- For what its worth- many of the rides I go to DO check Coggins
papers.
